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No idea, you wrote that you didn’t update any plugins, but there was a buddypress update yesterday, so if you installed it, maybe the problems are related. But honestly, I don’t have enough knowledge to answer this question. 🙁

@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 @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.

Thank you for your reply.

I figured that it would be the best place to ask prior to going down the rabbit hole with the BuddyPress documentation and website. It’s been labeled as rather archaic, cryptic, and unreadable by many people that I asked for advice. I contribute to several other open source projects and might jump in on your docs/forum if the platform seems like something that will be handy for me in the future.

As for the project being a copy, it’s really just identical in feature sets but not a literal copy of the site. Design is very different and it’s not dog sitters that are members. This site is for parents and babysitters which is highly similar to dogvacay.com in feature set. Yep, their site is built in Java. ::vomits a little::

The key features that need to be included:

– two member types (parents and babysitters)
– they should be able to message each other privately
– parents can schedule a date for the sitting to happen
– parents can browse babysitters
– custom profiles for each with different sets of information (based on a conditional of type)

It appears that I was able to answer my own question over the past few days by utilizing the codex and going through all of the code. BuddyPress looks to be the best option for handling all of this unless I was to custom code a plugin (I am actually a PHP developer NOT a wordpress dev). I was looking at utilizing BuddyPress for cutting down time by using the friend associations and messaging system.

BP might be a little much for this project but I can see value in several features that they might want in the future.

I apologize for posting this in err to this forum if it’s not really a good place for asking whether it’s a good platform for such a situation. All of the documentation/about is written in a fashion that presents it as useful in only one way. It made it rather difficult to decipher how I could rip the plugin apart to do what I need instead of using it as “out-of-the-box.”

Might there be some advance blogs out there where people have written about different ways to use the plugin? Just so that I can dig into the community a little more.

Have a nice day.

Adding this code above $this->$pag_links to bp-members-template solved the issue for us..

/**
			 * Defaults to an empty array to make sure paginate_links()
			 * won't add the $page_arg to the links which would break
			 * pagination in case javascript is disabled.
			 */
			$add_args = array();

			if ( ! empty( $search_terms ) ) {
				$add_args['s'] = urlencode( $search_terms );
			}

			$this->pag_links = paginate_links( array(
				'base'      => add_query_arg( $pag_args, $base ),
				'format'    => '',
				'total'     => ceil( (int) $this->total_member_count / (int) $this->pag_num ),
				'current'   => (int) $this->pag_page,
				'prev_text' => _x( '←', 'Member pagination previous text', 'buddypress' ),
				'next_text' => _x( '→', 'Member pagination next text', 'buddypress' ),
				'mid_size'  => 1,
				'add_args'  => $add_args,
			) );

I have now

• deleted 2.2.0 and all of my custom functions
• re-installed 2.1.1
• deleted and recreated the Register and Activate pages

and it’s still not working. Is there something in the database I need to delete to get a clean install of a Buddypress that has a functioning registration?