[seamtv]

I think the problem has to do with buddypress – bbPress integration.
The bbPress Group Forums appear to be set to ‘Open’ by default, even if they are hidden within buddypress. In fact, I cannot alter this. I tried changing my secret forum to ‘hidden’ within bbPress (2.4) and it won’t save the change – it always comes back as ‘open’.
Therefore, it’s up to buddypress to manage the privacy of the forum. It seems to be doing this with new topic posts (I can confirm that hide_sitewide in the activity stream table is “1” for new posts). The problem is that if someone replies to that post, the hide_sitewide for that reply is set to “0”, even though it’s inside of a ‘hidden’ group forum. To me, this is a serious security breach, as it exposes the forum name, the original topic name, and the contents of the reply in EVERYONE’s Activity stream, whether they are logged in or not, a member of the hidden forum or not.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Yes, the https://wordpress.org/ support forums for this plugin will be a better place.

[BlogMinded]

I have a feeling you are trying to do something that is practically already there.
Every profile has a unique link. Here is the link for your profile:
https://buddypress.org/community/members/tripvips/
You can give this link to anyone who wants to view the profile. Here “give the link” means anything you can think of: post on Facebook, post in forums, post in forum signatures, attach this link to profiles on 3rd party websites (when you post comments for instance).
If needed, you can create a banner type images for posting anywhere with the link “under” image leading to the person’s profile.

The above is basics and if you want to have different “codes” leading to the same profile, you simply need to look into things like URL cloaking/redirecting/shortening/tracking. Using these, you can have differently looking URLs, all leading to desired profile’s URL.

Did I not fully got your question, or are you trying to make things a lot more complicated than they are?

Regards

[bp-help]

@everest19
It may serve you better if you request help on that plugins support forum. The author knows his code better than anyone and knows what and what can not be modified to fit a particular requirement.

[Peter Hardy-vanDoorn]

Well, I’ve solved the problem – or, at least, what was causing MY problem – others may be having different issues.

Background: I originally set up this site in BP 1.6. When 1.7 came along and the old built-in forum system was deprecated, I installed bbPress 2.3 as instructed and it migrated all of my forums over to the new system.

So, I naturally assumed that all of the settings would be taken over too. I’ve just looked at the individual forums and have noticed that they have all had their Visibility set to Public, even though they are in Private or Hidden groups!

So, setting the visibility to what it should be has solved the problem.

HOWEVER, I do still consider there to be at least 3 bugs in the BuddyPress / bbPress software:
1. When the forums were converted from bbPress 1.x to 2.x they should have had their visibility set correctly.
2. The forums are all hosted within groups. Forums like this should respect the group’s Privacy settings.
3. Even if you should set a Public forum within a Private group, the posts should not appear in non-members’ activity feeds. The forum itself is not visitable, neither are its individual posts.

Peter

[seamtv]

I have the same problem. However, my hide_sitewide values are “1” for private forum entries, but are being completely ignored with the sitewide activity is shown.
I, too, upgraded from legacy groups to sitewide forums.
I am running bbPress 2.4 with buddypress 1.8.1
I have run the forum tools script to repair hidden forums, but this hasn’t made a difference.
I’m really worried about this security breach and – despite seeing a number of posts in here pointing this out – the development team seem unable to recreate it at their end. Nevertheless, it seems it is affecting people like us and we need to lock it down ASAP.
Thanks.

[seamtv]

I’ve been having the same problem. It’s a huge security breach and I’d love to get to the bottom of it. I’m using buddypress 1.8.1 and bbpress 2.4.
It’s actually really scary, since my private forums are having sensitive conversations that they believe to be private when, in fact, they are being broadcast in their entirety to everyone. This is horrendous.

[jhave2]

Thanks! That worked.
But only for new posts,
is there any way to retroactively list posts created before?

[@mercime]

@alanniemies I would report this issue with the premium theme developer or check the premium theme’s forums. Surely you’re not the only one who has experienced this issue with BuddyPress activated.

[@mercime]

@philmay he fixed it by repositioning the site header link to above the navigation bar instead of being right on top of it in his theme’s stylesheet.

[@mercime]

see https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/vanillalounge/replies/

[philmay]

so how did you fix this?

[jhave2]

hi! i have exactly same problem….

tried inserting add_filter( ‘bbp_is_site_public’, ‘__return_true’ );
into themes functions.php
but it made no difference….

is there a specific place in the .php where the filter needs to go?

many thanks!

[Ben Hansen]

bbbpress is forum software, buddypress gives you more in depth user profiles groups and activity streams (amongst other social netowrky type things) the two can be used separately or together.

[@mercime]

@irondan Do you mean you want one user (or all users) to be notified of any/all topics which would be created in your forums? I have not seen any plugins created for that functionality. You would be better served, I believe, by posting this feature request at the bbPress forums https://bbpress.org/forums/ with more information

[hughshields]

Thanks for the tip. I included your CSS in my theme style sheet and it works, but it throws off the styling for my theme (suffusion) and puts 5-6 blank lines at the top of the group header.
I believe this is an issue with my theme’s template pack which is outdated since Buddypress 1.8.1.
I will try and resolve this on the Suffusion forum.
Thanks
Hugh

[Hugo Ashmore]

Buddypress uses bbPress to provide it’s forums for groups and is not a forum app it’s self, it does not, or at least as of V 1.7 have internal forums which used to be a stripped down version of bbPress.

[dikshav@]

Thanks @mercime, I shall surely ask at the theme forum, but I also wanted to know about how to work with Buddy Press, the initials to build up a Social kind of site. I shall go through the tutorials, and then again come up here , if have any issues.
Well, I thought I would get a reply to how to start with buddypress.

[@mercime]

ibuddy theme is a WordPress theme which supports BuddyPress. Therefore, you can use the usual WP template tags and functions to generate login code as well as recent blog posts. For more assistance, you can post at theme author’s support forums at https://wordpress.org/support/theme/ibuddy

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

BP Courseware hasn’t been updated in almost a year, and I’m pretty sure that the plugin’s developer isn’t working on the WP plugin any more. The error’s probably caused by some forum changes that happened in BP at least a year ago.

[jchambo]

Alright so I did what I described as above, and the full-width pages now work on all of my Buddypress pages, BESIDES my Forums page.

Forums (NOT OK): http://shredlounge.com/forums/
Groups (OK): http://shredlounge.com/groups/
Members (OK): http://shredlounge.com/members/
Activity (OK): http://shredlounge.com/activity

Is there some .css I need to edit for this? Thanks again for all your help!

[rchiriac]

Can’t EDIT my posts on the forums anymore…
So my question is: what’s this $posted_field_ids variable? How does it get populated; it’s always NULL, same as $_POST (I’m in edit.php)

[CC-Cailin]

Accidentally asked here and not on the bbpress forum. But if anyone can help, i’d appreciate it anyways. thanks

[r-a-y]

Some of your problems are actually pros if you look at it in a different light.

That being said, it’s entirely possible to do what you’re asking.

The main problem is adding the group information into the sidebar. It could be accomplished by adding a conditional widget, but the widget would have to be manually placed by the site admin.

Group tags in forum threads should be quite easy to accomplish with a plugin. The group tag slug should be prefixed with “group-” or something like that to avoid conflicts with other tags.

[bp-help]

@tayenewm
You should leave your contact info and a description of the work to be performed, as well as the budget for the work performed here:

BP Jobs Board

and here:
http://jobs.wordpress.net/