[lorenzo]

hello everyone,
i was looking for solutions to simply display a message in the groups/members/forums section saying that you need to be logged in to see these areas and i cam across a thread which is more than a year old. with WP3 and a lot of changes in buddypress, does anyone have a simple solution for achieving this? did anyone work on a ‘privacy’ plugin stemming from the early attempts to customise functions in the bp-custom.php?

[modemlooper]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/member-access/

requires theme editing.

[lorenzo]

thanks, this is quite useful to address the issue to block out everything. what i was after is a little more fine-grained. for example there are out there a few plugins which use wordpress roles to limit access to posts or even categories. can anyone suggest a way of using a buddypress group or a field from the extended profile to limit access to posts/pages (rather than activities like forum posts etc?

i understand that if one is not member of a private group they cannot see the group activities in the stream, but how to make certain pages only accessible based on buddypress group membership?

many thanks!

[Roger Coathup]

@psycolor

You could look at using functions like:

groups_is_user_member( $user_id, $group_id )
To test if the user is in a specific group, and only show the page if they are in the appropriate group. This is defined in bp-groups.php.

bp_is_member()
To simply check whether the current user is a member (and logged in). This is defined in bp-core-templatetags.php

There is also a group blogs plugin: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-groupblog/

I don’t know if this can be adapted to implement the private pages for your group members.

Cheers, Roger

[lorenzo]

Roger thanks for the useful suggestion.
i think that getting into modifying the plugin is out of my league, but i can definitely look into how to use the function you suggested.

i’m surpised that nobody has implemented this sort of things already!

lorenzo