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Might be relevant:

BuddyBoss Expands Into LMS Market with Free BuddyPress Plugins for LearnDash and Sensei

Someone recently posted some code that gets into this a bit when it comes to member profiles – https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-member-pages-visibility-restriction/#post-241840

not sure if it works, obviously if it does it would need to be adapted for your activity page instead of members..

There have been a lot of QnA regarding privacy settings with bp pages / partial components the past so many months – maybe that is something that will make it into a future version.

There could be other answers to this currently. I am not a bp dev, just another user with limited understanding of how it ticks.

Hi Joe,

I don’t think there is a setting you can change for that specifically but you can restrict access to the content on that page and similar pages by adding a conditional in to their templates.

You need to copy over the relevant template from here:

…\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\

and put it in to your theme here:

…\wp-content\themes\your-theme\buddypress\

so for example for that particular page, the friends list on a user profile, you would copy this file:

…\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\friends.php

and put it here:

…\wp-content\themes\your-theme\buddypress\members\single\friends.php

then open up that file in a text editor and add this code near the top (under the first closing ?>)

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

Then right at the end of that file, add this code:

<?php endif; ?>

That should work but I haven’t tested it as I don’t have access to my main PC right now. That will show the normal header and footer but none of the friends list content.

Alternatively if you wanted to show an error message like ‘you need to be logged in’ you could use something like this in place of that first snippet of code:

<?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

<p>You need to be logged in to view this content</p>

<?php else : ?>

Hope that helps 🙂

@hammed4real101 – what (list all) plugins are you using?

are they having trouble when trying to login on your actual login page? (.com/login/
– or just when they try to login with the sidebar login widget?

recent mentions of facebook integrations stuff here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/wrong/

@fridafric Most of the information on that book is obsolete. If you want blogs, you need to create a network first, and that is a WordPress function which BuddyPress supports. Deactivate BuddyPress and other plugins first the follow instructions at https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Do make sure that your multisite installation is working as expected before activating BuddyPress.

@wealthy – I don’t think you need buddypress for this. I believe you could easily achieve those goals setting up and wordpress install, turn on multi-site (aka wordpress mu setting) – add in one of the many membership type plugins like s2member.. then add in a commerce plugin like marketpress or woo-commerce, something like that.

Make it so all sub “blogs” aka “sites” are locked out from visibility unless logged in, your “logged in state” is determined by the s2member or similar plugin…

might take a look at press permit core for restricting content.. there are others.. but in essence I think there is no need to add buddypress to the mix. Only thing that would do it open up profiles and friends – but then you’d have much more difficulty locking down member profile viewing and groups viewing and stuff like that, which is not so easy to deal with at the moment.

@rollercoasterider – are you still doing this with a default theme like 2014 or something similar?
Have you tried it with ALL plugins disabled except buddypress?

(some hosts do include a wp-cahe type plugin, that is enabled by default, that drove me crazy with a similar issue a couple years ago – lol)

@quinngoldwin – bp profiles already already come with a “friends” tab – which would do essentially what you are describing if the others have a profile in the system and they have accepted as friends. Then everything you are asking is already done with a default install.

If others are not in the system, I guess they could upload a buddypress docs file with a list or something.

Your best bet is probably to look at this from the s2member side.
There is lots of info available, such as

s2Member + BuddyPress