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Ok so I managed to find a backwards way of doing it because I needed to be able to do the same thing. Your going to need two plugins.

1. Your Preferred Role Management Plugin. I like Capacity Manager Enhanced
2. Buddypress xProfiles ACL

STEPS
1. Use your role manager to create some new roles. Name them what ever you want.
2. Go into the Users -> Profile Fields
3. Create a Field Group for your Restricted Items (not the primary one).
4. Go to the Settings -> xProfile ACL
5. Put your Field Group that you only want the Admin to be able to edit for the admin only.
6. Now this is important you need to modify the xProfile ACL php file (yes I know this makes it a hack, if xProfile ACL is updated you will lose this setting.)
6a. Go to line 240 of the buddypress-xprofiles-acl.php file. Comment out lines 240 – 249, the code you are commenting out is:

`
function filter_xprofile_groups_with_acl() {
global $bp, $profile_template, $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
foreach($profile_template->groups as $key => $profile_group) {
if( ! in_array($profile_group->id, $this->user_allowed_xprofile_groups) ) {
unset($profile_template->groups[$key]);
}
}
}
`

6b. Below the code you just commented out add:
` function filter_xprofile_groups_with_acl() {}`

7. Save your changes to the buddypress-xprofiles-acl.php file.

8. Now when ever you need to modify the fields log in with your admin account navigate to the user profile in buddy press and select Edit Member Profile from the tool bar. You will see the fields from the private group. Users will see the fields but when they select edit they will not be displayed.

Hope this helps.

It might also be worth removing both the subject column from members/single/messages/messages-loop.php and the h1 heading from members/single/messages/single.php

Users won’t then see “private message” for every message they get sent.

@b1gft,

the silly answer would be: make them public !

Private is private. Even group discussions.

A tech answer probably sit here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2576
And at least, the codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/group-settings-and-roles/

@aldereteka
Try this:
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp
edit it to meet your requirement.

@jrgiblette
Yes, as far as I know sending private messages with folk your not friends with is still out of the box, you would need custom code or a plugin to prevent it. Unless the core developers integrated it with the core in BP 1.7rc1 which I have not tested extensively yet then most likely you will need custom code if you decide to prevent it. If your fine with non-friends sending non-friends messages then that is default behavior.

Hey @Chouf1

Can your code be modified for private messaging? I’m trying to make the private message button on profiles visible when someone is logged out, but redirected to log in/register when a logged out/unregistered user attempts to contact someone. Can anyone point me in a general direction?

Thanks.

@mr_yoshimura ‘heads up’ ? how is this helpful or informative? what doesn’t work? What, if anything, have you done to try and narrow down the problem, do you need any help from the community to try and get it working or see what your issue is with it?

Heads up! The plugin doesn’t work for my site: http://www.bobyorke.com

Great Job Boris!
A bit late but… thanks

@studiomgr Have you tried this one yet:
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp
It is only designed to block buddypress pages, I use it and it works good for me.

I have the same problem with all my pages being visible, even though I blocked them through wp-members settings. I tried installing this plugin, but I still have all pages visible – but now they have error messages. I have tried several plugins to no avail – wp-members was supposed to block pages, but that doesn’t work. I also used BP-registration options, but it doesn’t work well. I am looking at possibly trying the bp-custom.php fix suggested here: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/. I am not a pro – just looking for the simplest way to create a membership site and block pages from users who are not members and logged in. Would appreciate any guidance! Thanks!