[Toby Cryns (@themightymo)]

Hello, fellow BuddyPress’rs!

On the groups page, I have a list of all the groups, both public and private. If I attempt to gain access to a private group when I am not logged in, I am redirected to the home page. Is there any way to redirect to an error page?

It works fine here: http://testbp.org/groups/
but it does not work here: http://unitedfrontmn.org/communities/

The “bp_group_permalink()” function located in “bp-groups-templatetags.php” does not seem to be the correct place to edit this, as I need a conditional statement to say (paraphrase), “If user is not logged in, then redirect to an error page”.

The “groups-loop.php” file seems like the most promising place to edit code, but I don’t see a way to say (in php), “if user is logged in…”.

Can someone point me in the right direction here?

Thanks!
Toby

[Toby Cryns (@themightymo)]

BTW: I am using WordPress MU 2.9.2 and BuddyPress 1.2.4.1

[Boone Gorges]

@themightymo The template file that handles this is bp-default/groups/single/home.php. See around line 44 – bp_group_status_message() creates the “to join this group…” message for private groups. If you want to customize the way that you are redirected, you should start here.

It’s strange, though – BP 1.2.4.1 should do what you are suggesting out of the box. Could there be a plugin conflict? Or an issue with a custom theme that you’ve built?

[Toby Cryns (@themightymo)]

Okay. The issue is that I am redirecting to the forum page for each group. The forum page for private forums does not have a “you need to be a member” error message like groups do. Doesn’t it make sense that forums would have a similar error message? Should I submit this as a BuddyPress bug? I have never submitted a bug and don’t quite know what the standards are for doing so.

Thanks!