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@louisarthur – Thanks for sending me credentials. I’ve logged into your site to have a look.

As you note in your email, there’s no href attribute on these links. It’s not clear to me how this would be the case, but I can give you a starting point for looking into it yourself. Briefly, the buttons will be built without an href if the button constructing function passes an empty link_href parameter to the BP_Button class. The functions used in the two cases are different:

Message public: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.2/src/bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php?marks=3090#L3079

Message privé: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.2/src/bp-messages/bp-messages-template.php?marks=1362#L1360

The logic in each case is different, but since neither is showing up, I’m guessing that one of two things is happening:

1. One of the conditional checks shared between them is failing for some reason: bp_is_my_profile(), is_user_logged_in().

2. Something on your installation – perhaps your theme but probably a plugin (since you said Twenty Seventeen was exhibiting the problem as well) – is filtering both ‘bp_get_send_private_message_link’ and ‘bp_get_send_public_message_link’, and then incorrect returning empty strings.

To test idea #2, you might try – if you can – searching through your codebase for those filter names.

please use forum’s search before asking !
https://buddypress.org/support/search/private+message+button/

For example:

Disable or Hide Private Message Button

Thank you so much for this code! I’ve spent several hours trying to use other people’s code to hide the button and even tried to make my own but nothing worked until I found your code. I just switched it around because I only wanted one particular group to not be able to send messages while the rest can.

Posting in case someone in the future needs the opposite of your code:

add_filter( 'bp_get_send_message_button', function( $array ) {
    if ( pmpro_hasMembershipLevel('NAMEOFPMPLEVEL') ) {
        return '';
    } else {
        return $array;
    }
} );

Also, I am looking for the same code as you to restrict non-paying users from sending private messages. I found a code that looks promising but unfortunately doesn’t work. It sees if the user is logged in and if not redirects them. Then if the person is logged in it checks their role but if they’re not that role they’re supposed to be redirected. But it just breaks my whole site. Any ideas?

function my_function() {

    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_current_component( 'messages' ) ) {
        // Current user is not logged in so don't let them see stuff. In this case, private messages 
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
        
    $flag = false;
    // Get current user info.
    $user = wp_get_current_user();

    if ( ! in_array( 'student', $user->roles ) ) {
        // The current member is not a student.
        $flag = true;
    }

    if ( $flag && bp_is_current_component( 'messages' )  ) {
        The currently logged-in member is not a student and is trying to view private messaging. Let's redirect them away.
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_function' );

This works and hides the button, but I’m curious. Can someone still send a private message to another user when they are “not” friends using URL manipulation or should the _wpnonce stop that?

hi @masoud1111,

all i found was how to hide that button, or remove it.
but not show it only on some profiles

You just need to add some conditionnals.

Try this (in bp-custom.php) and give feed back if it works.

function bpex_private_message_button( $button ) {
$user = bp_loggedin_user_id();

    if ( is_super_admin() ) { 
		return $button;
	}

	if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {

		if ( $role == 'subscriber' || $role == 'contributor' || $role == 'author' || $role == 'editor' )  {
			// hide button for these roles
			$button = '';
		}
	}

	// allow the button to appear on admin's profile only
	if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) && bp_is_user() )  {	
		$user_id = bp_displayed_user_id();	
		// assuming admin's ID is 1
		if ( $user_id == 1 ) {
			return $button;
		}

	}

}
add_filter( 'bp_get_send_message_button', 'bpex_private_message_button', 1 , 1 );

The function is working correctly on my install.

Perhaps you have an issue with quotes, ie after copy/pasting the snippet from a topic where the code whas inserted without using the code button.
Which software do you use to publish bp-custom ?

Copy/paste following and give a try:

function buddydev_hide_members_directory_from_all_except_admin() {

if ( bp_is_members_directory() && ! is_super_admin() ) {
//should we add a message too?
//bp_core_add_message( 'Private page.', 'error' );
bp_core_redirect( site_url('/') );
}
}
add_action( 'bp_template_redirect', 'buddydev_hide_members_directory_from_all_except_admin' );

This topic is titled “Function to hide private message depending of user role”.

and the snippet does that ! Subscribers have no access to the button. So far i remember it is also the default role in WordPress. You change that to your need.

The first condition in the snippet allows some users (by ID) to access the button, whatever their role.

If you want to add other WP roles, you simply copy the 2nd conditionnal if(role=='') and add another role if(role=='mamamouchi") { //do something }.

Or you use only the user ID if you have only a few members allowed to access. I litle understanding of php is of course a + to do that.
You have the basics in the snippet. Now, it’s to you now to make it work for your need.

Hi,

try this (goes to bp-custom.php)

function bpex_remove_private_message_button( $button ) {
$user = bp_loggedin_user_id();

    if ( $user == '4' || $user == '7' || $user == '25'  ) { // the allowed user ID's
	 return $button;
	}

	if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {

		if ( $role == 'subscriber') {
			$button = '';
		}
	}
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_send_message_button', 'bpex_remove_private_message_button', 1 , 1 );

No idea how to get specifically a pmpro defined user ID – you have to check their doc to adjust the above snippet. Note that it works on a standart install – without pmpro.

Hi @koded1999,

please, use the <code> button to insert snippets. Also avoid double posting.
Closing this topic as duplicate.
Conversation goes ahead here:

Disable or Hide Private Message Button

@henrywright i managed to fix that and is working perfectly.

but i have another problem.

i will like to populate the subject automatically when user click the private message button from post

pls how can i achieve this.

thank you

@henrywright Please i will like to add private message button in post side bar. i used the code below it works but doesnt populate the author automatically. how can i fix this thanks in advance.

function bpfr_message_shortcode() {	
$author = get_the_author();
$message = 'Login to contact advertiser!';

if( is_user_logged_in() ) {
	return '<a>MESSAGE ADVERTISER</a>';
 } else {
    return $message;
 }
} 
add_shortcode( 'ksam', 'bpfr_message_shortcode' );

Hi,

you can try to remove the private message button from the template or hide it with CSS.
And add a custom one who leads to admin inbox.

The link should look like
http://your-site.com/members/YOU/messages/compose/?r=THE ADMIN&_wpnonce=an_alpha_numeric_value

See here how you may code this

Codex and Forum are your friends to search about template customization.

You’re welcome. 😉
In case of, here’s another trick.

hi @fencer04,

thank for sharing your work. Well done, but it needs some revision (sorry).
At his activation on 2 test sites (one with 4.5.3/bp 2.6.1, other 4.6/bp2.6.2) i got a notice.
Array to string conversion in buddypress/bp-core/classes/class-bp-core-nav.php on line 279from

sbpp04_privacy_check( )	..\plugin.php:525
sbpp04_privacy_redirect( )	..\buddypress-profile-privacy.php:176
bp_core_remove_nav_item( )	..\buddypress-profile-privacy.php:184
BP_Core_Nav->delete_nav( )	..\bp-core-buddybar.php:798

Another point concerning UI/UX is the Private button appearing on buddybar.
On this tab, a default message says Friends Only.
USERNAME has chosen to limit profile access to friends only.
That’s wrong! Because this appear on each profile, even if the owner hasn’t setup anything about his profile privacy.

So far i understand its fonctionality, this plugin let each member decide to show or not his whole profile page to friends or members only or to everyone (bp default).

– imo this tab should show “This profile is private” to anybody who is concerned by a privacy setting and should not appear at all if “Everyone” is set.
– the original BP Add as friend button on profile header or members directory is still there. This means that there is no need to go on Private tab to ask forfriendship.
This is a little confusing !

If the plugin is to extend profile settings, it should appear in profile settings only. And as it doesn’t superseed BP, there is no real reason to give him an extra tab on buddybar outside of the settings scope. A template notice could be enough to tell visitors what’s going on on such a profile.

Just my 2 cents.

Try this:

function mohammad_remove_private_message_button( $button ) {
$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();

    if ( $user_id == '37' ) // the user ID
	$button = '';

     return $button;
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_send_message_button', 'mohammad_remove_private_message_button', 1 , 1 );

More details here:

[Resolved] how hide tab only for user? not remove/disable

I tested your code and got first a page not found error while trying to send a private message from the new position.
I deactivated both action hook in cover and home files.
Disallowed cover image option. And tested again and everithing worked.
Allowed cover image and worked also.

So i confirm that your code works and all buttons show up (with active href’s), at least with Twenty Sixteen theme, at the members profile page bottom.

In resume, the only thing you have to do is to deactivate the original action hook in both files (so you can allow/disallow cover images).

Forgot to mention that there is a litle error in your code line 133
<?= wpautop(xprofile_get_field_data("About me", bp_displayed_user_id() ) ); ?>

Should be
<?php wpautop(xprofile_get_field_data("About me", bp_displayed_user_id() ) ); ?>