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Ahh, I wanted to achieve something like this as well. Like you, I’m using S2members (which I absolutely love – lets you hide/text menu items, text, posts, pages, downloadable content ect based on user role).

This is what I’ve done: For the registration process I’m using BAW invitation codes. Users need to register for a health course (using Event Espresso), and in the confirmation email they recieve an invitation code they can use to log in and access course materials.

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 !

Doesn’t look neat

Really? Please explain. If you mean that they display on all pages that’s what they are meant to do, if you are building your site using WP pages for everything I suggest you copy page.php rename it page-plain.php give it template headers so it’s selectable in the create page view and then strip out all but the content loop .

Just thought I’d add another suggestion – there’s a plugin called Member Access (http://www.chrisabernethy.com/wordpress-plugins/member-access/) which controls access to pages based on whether a visitor is logged in or not. I’m using it successfully on a BuddyPress site. I think you’d have to disable access to the “Member Directory” page as well for it to work ‘out of the box’, but with some php tweaking  you may be able to have the directory page show but restrict access to more detailed profile information.

Another simpler approach would be to created a bp-custom.php and place it in the plugins directory and add the following code
`<?php
function bp_guest_redirect() {
global $bp;
if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() /*|| bbp_is_single_forum()*/ || bp_is_forums_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {
// enter the slug or component conditional here
if(!is_user_logged_in()) { // not logged in user
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/register’ );
} // user will be redirect to any link to want
}
}
add_filter(‘get_header’,’bp_guest_redirect’,1);
?>`
This code will work to hide buddypress pages and group forums as is, if your using sitewide forums in line 4 remove the comments around:
|| bbp_is_single_forum()
Save and refresh. Works in current versions.

Sigh, I can’t get member-access to work, and can’t believe there isn’t an easier way to restrict pages to members/non-members. In my case I’d like to restrict the member listing page to members only. Was hoping to find some non-hacks here. I’ll keep looking but this appears to require code changes…

@mairaj know that if user disables styles in browser, they will see the search form. But should you still want to proceed with your method, these two lines should do it via CSS

`/* Hide search form in ALL pages */
#search-form { display: none; }

/* Then show search form on this page only (change page ID to your installation’s page ID) */
body.page-id-25 #search-form { display: block; }`
You might have to add some width or float after display block depending on how you’ve styled the child theme.

@formbi,The simplest way without code edit or plugin is to use css to hide it. look for the page ID and write something like: .page-item-78{ display: none ! important;} where 78 is your page ID you can hide as may pages as you want by adding a coma

I took a different approach to this that worked… I was looking to hide content from people who are not friends… In any pages that friends are not connected I did this..

?php if ( bp_is_friend() != ‘is_friend’ ) {
if (bp_current_user_id() != bp_loggedin_user_id()):
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/not-friends.php’), true )
endif;
}
php if (bp_current_user_id() == bp_loggedin_user_id() || ( bp_is_friend() == ‘is_friend’ ) ): ?>
// add page content for friends
?php endif; ?>

for groups you can do the similar with bp_group_is_member()

naturally you would need to create;
members/single/not-friends.php

but this way you take away the permissions settings from your users and control them yourself with your theme…. With a little bit of configuring you can do the same with users who are not logged in.

Hope this helps…

Cheers

which makes it look unprofessional

Really? considering BP is developed by professional web developers that’s a sightly surprising statement to be making.

The titles you refer to on pages such as ‘Forums’, ‘Groups’, ‘Activity’ are heading tags, h# tags are a semantic tag that defines the document outline there are six levels and you use them to assign document section headings, these tags are mandatory and it’s very unprofessional not to have them so take care in removing them and also remember that search engines look for and use these tags for index information.

If you are removing these tags then you need to locate these sorts of lines in your index files `

` and simply delete them, this is basic level stuff so as an IT literate person should be within your means as it’s simple editing of text files but it is going to help you enormously to learn some absolute basics where CSS and HTML are concerned.

Lastly you are going to need to make these changes in a child theme otherwise whenever you upgrade your changes will be overwritten, a clear step by step guide to setting up a child theme can be found in the BP codex.

== currently all pages display the page name ==

Just so we’re on the same page, could you go to http://testbp.org/ and post URL’s of pages with titles you are referring to here?

== but doesn’t hide the tabs. ==

You mean hide the main navigation links to the BuddyPress pages?

I do that on jbsocial.com using the following plugins

Member Access
PC Hide Pages
Peter’s Login Redirect
Simple Access Control

You need to create both menus. Without it wordpress has it’s own default menu which you have been relying on

A good guide for understanding wordpress menus is http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus

Yes!

Which menu is served depends on whether they are logged in or not and that is the point to decide…

and please use backticks ` ` ` when quoting code