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You can use this tutorial http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-profile-privacy-to-buddypress/
its meant for profiles but it can be adapted for friends. Follow it exactly but instead of putting

3. Edit your theme file to include the friendship check:
To restrict profile info, open up /members/single/profile.php and add this at the top of the page:

add that code in 3. instead to /members/single/friends.php

You may also want to change the test in 2. step to:
You must be friends in order to access users friends.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?u6oos92g344485f
This plugin does not hide the activity tab in the main nav or in the profile activity tab but it does make activity friend only unless your the admin in which case it shows sitewide activity. To test it you would have to create two accounts that are not admins and not friends and put come activity in on both and you will see that as long as your not friends you can not see the others activity.

Go to your admin > Pages and delete the register and empty the trash

Do the same if you have a Login page.

Then go to settings > buddypress.

– Tab Component and check the one you want.

– Tab Pages and create a page from there for each component.

Save.

Now BP is correctly configured.

Check also settings > permalinks and choose something other as default.

If you created some custom menus before installing BP, double check them to have the new pages.

Done !

Easiest way is to go to wp-admin on the site you want to hide, go to the Settings > Reading menu, and tick the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” option. Of course, this will also ask search engines to not index that site.

If you want to hide stuff but want it to be available to Google, you could use CSS and/or jQuery to hide things. Check out this post about how to add BuddyPress-specific body classes:

CSS Body Class for BuddyPress Group Moderators and Admins

Here is a post that might help if you want to hide everything from Google: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/buddypress-how-do-i-hide-community-elements-from-non-members

hi there, i have a similar problem on my wordpress multisite, however, unchecking “Show the admin bar for logged out users” doesn’t work for me.
what’s really weird is, on some websites on my multisite the admin bar shows up but not on others.
any ideas?

thanks,
Adam

streams are not related to profile fields. stream is created by site activity. i don’t think theres a decent way to hide that other then for admin users using a plugin or by modifying code stuff.

The name of the menu is ‘my-account-buddypress’. This is a buddypress menu and therefore you cannot find it in the wordpress adminbar.php file. It is added when you installed buddypress. You can remove it by adding the following to your theme’s functions.php file:

function remove_bp_adminbar() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu(‘my-account-buddypress’);
}
add_action( ‘wp_before_admin_bar_render’, ‘remove_bp_adminbar’ );

If someone knows the names of the submenus in this buddypress menu I would like to know them so that I can remove the redundant ones (media, forms, friends etc).

I think a better bet is to collect that info on the BP registration page and then not display it on the user profile (that way you’ll still be able to use it in other ways). With BP 1.6. you can change the visibility of each xprofile field to friends only, logged-in users, or public (and force that level or allow the user to override your selection). (Visible to admin only is coming in BP 1.7, btw, which would totally fix you up.) At the moment, you can modify your theme template file (themes/yourtheme/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php) to hide some fields like this:
`about line 17:

<?php $no_display_fields = array( // Enter the field name of any field that you don't want to appear on the user profile.
‘E-mail’,
‘Name of Field Hide’,
‘Another’
);

if ( bp_field_has_data() && !in_array( bp_get_the_profile_field_name(), $no_display_fields ) ) : ?>`

It’s a hack, but it works for me (until BP 1.7).

Hi @wpmirwin, this part of code above is from buddypress Notifcation manager plugin.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-notifications-manager/
mybe this plugin can help you.

this function hide the notifications subnav, and it should work in bp 1.5 and bp 1.6

function bp_hide_notifications_subnav(){
global $bp;
bp_core_remove_subnav_item($bp->settings->slug, ‘notifications’);

if ( bp_use_wp_admin_bar() ) {
add_action( ‘wp_before_admin_bar_render’, create_function(
”, ‘global $bp, $wp_admin_bar; $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( “my-account-settings-notifications” );’ ) );
}
}

//if is not bp 1.5
if ( version_compare( BP_VERSION, ‘1.5’ ) < 0 )
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_hide_notifications_subnav’);
else
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘bp_hide_notifications_subnav’ );

In BP-default folder you can edit the file members/single/settings/general.php

Just comment out the form for the settings. BTW did you uncheck settings option in admin?

Thanks for the rating.

Here is a solution that works in BuddyPress 1.6. This will prevent new activities from being added and will also prevent the user from showing as recently active. The first option is for admins, the second is for a specific username.

`
// Don’t record activity by the site admins or show them as recently active
function my_admin_stealth_mode(){
if ( is_site_admin() ) {
global $bp;
remove_action(‘wp_head’,’bp_core_record_activity’);
delete_user_meta($bp->loggedin_user->id, ‘last_activity’);
}
}
add_action(‘init’,’my_admin_stealth_mode’);

// Don’t record activity for a user or show them as recently active
function my_user_stealth_mode(){
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
if(is_user_logged_in()) {
if(‘YourUsername’ == $current_user->user_login) {
remove_action(‘wp_head’,’bp_core_record_activity’);
delete_user_meta($current_user->ID, ‘last_activity’);
}
}
}
add_action(‘init’,’my_user_stealth_mode’);
`

You should be able to disable the admin bar for logged-out users in the WP admin area by navigating to “Settings > BuddyPress“, then click on the “Settings” tab.

If someone really wanted to find out if you were using BuddyPress, then it would be quite simple. I would take steps to try and hide the fact you were using WordPress first, then move down the ladder to BuddyPress later on.

About notifications without the admin bar, there are some third-party plugins available like:
http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-notifications-widget/ (a widget)

With BP 1.7, we’ll be adding universal theme compatibility, so we’ll be taking some steps to try and make life without the admin bar a little easier.

add_filter(‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’);

I am not certain this is what you desire but check out my blog. I have code snippets that may help you. Read the post and you will understand the end result from the snippet. Have a great day and hope it helps!
http://ezwebdesign.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/removing-admin-bar-removing-dashboard-access/

Hi!

Can you kindly share how did you actually do this? I need the same for my site.

1. How did you prevent the friends tab to other users?
2. Have you figured out the way for messages?

regards

@shawn38 thanks for your help i figured things out after reading this post i also figured out that the plugin does work you just can’t turn it on or off using the new toolbar so what i did was using the custom file to temporarily activate the old toolbar in order to activate the ninja plugin. thanks again for all your help here and on the other topic!

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-can-i-use-old-buddypress-admin-bar-if-i-dont-want-to-use-this-new-one-in-1-6/

Did you wrap the code @mercime gave you in opening and closing php tags? Like this:
`<?php
add_action(“plugins_loaded”,”bpdev_init_sm_mode”);
function bpdev_init_sm_mode(){
if(is_site_admin())
remove_action(“wp_head”,”bp_core_record_activity”); //id SM is on, remove the record activity hook
}
?>`