Hi @milenushka
tested with another theme
Which theme did you try with?
Hi @henrywright,
I am using buddyboss (child theme), tested it with default wp theme and buddyboss parent.
I also found this thread https://buddypress.org/support/topic/forum-in-private-groups/ started a few weeks ago, and I think @melle328 is right, this happens if the group is first set as public and later changed to private or as in my case- group forum is set to public first and then chosen as the private’s group forum.
So far it seems that if users create a group and a forum and later change their settings- the activity privacy is not updated. I keep testing different options as we speak, so I find something new, I will post it too.
@henrywright
Ok, I can confirm the issue now.
If a group is created as private and a forum is created with it- it will be a private forum and its activity will remain invisible to non group members.
If a private group is created and an existed forum is added to it- this forum need to be changed to private- otherwise the forum will remain public, even though the group attached to it is private- and the activity of the forum will be public.
Same goes for a public group+ forum , that is created together and later group setting are set to private. Forum remains public- forum’s activity -too.
Is there something to be done with the buddypress-bbpress integration to make this work?
Creating a function that will make a forum private too- if the group it was attached to becomes private? @johnjamesjacoby
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bugs-between-bbpress-and-buddypress/
Hi again @milenushka
So you’re saying if a public forum is added to a private group then you’d like that forum to automatically be made private?
Yes.
If the admin is creating the groups and forums there is no problem (well if he knows this is an issue),
but if the members are creating groups and later want to change groups settings to “private”, they have no control over the forums’ privacy. And that leaves them confused or if sensitive info was shared in the forums, upset too.
So, yeah, something needs to be done.
thank you for looking into this @henrywright.
I see what you mean about this possibly being confusing to the member. I think you should create a Trac ticket for this to see what the core developers think.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
You can use the exact same username and password you use here in the forums.
Thanks @henrywright , I did that.
