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To prevent spam, the fonctionnality you want to use is not avaible. You can see tthe function in bp-messages-templatetags.php:522

Anyway you can add a button, which opens the send message page, but you need to add manually the user name.

Open from your_child_theme/groups/single/members.php
and add the function ` ` in the place you want.

You can also learn to your user to use the profile page of their contact to send them a private massage.
The number of click to do this is the same i think.

It’s your choice

Ok – so you’re going to your profile’s private message, compose; what type of search term do you enter in the name field? Do you get any autocompletion results (an AJAX script ought to be running)? Does the search term match up to a particular user?

Just trying to understand where it’s falling out. BuddyPress private messaging doesn’t use email addresses.

The private messaging doesn’t use the email addresses directly. I spent a bunch of hours this last weekend fixing problems with the private messaging system in certain situations involving differences between the user’s log in, and user nickname fields, and when the compat mode constant is set (I assume you have set this in your wp-config.php if you are logging in with email addresses — can you confirm?

Try adding `define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true );` to your wp-config.php or bp-custom.php file.

Well that’s why I asked. Right now the logic tranlates to this:

“If this topic is not mine, or the user is not logged in, don’t show a link.”

You want it to say:

“If this post is mine, or the user is not logged in, don’t show a link.”

Here’s your new code:

`function bp_forum_send_private_message_link() {
echo bp_forum_get_send_private_message_link();
}
function bp_forum_get_send_private_message_link() {
global $bp, $topic_template;

if ( bp_get_the_topic_post_is_mine() || !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;

return apply_filters( ‘bp_forum_get_send_private_message_link’, wp_nonce_url( $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->messages->slug . ‘/compose/?r=’ . bp_core_get_username( $topic_template->post->poster_id, $topic_template->post->poster_nicename, $topic_template->post->poster_login ) ) );
}`

I just found the same error! I cannot send messages to users with a dash in their username. The error I am getting is when I try to select that user as the recipient, it shows there name but then also the following errors IN the dropdown:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/genesis-connect/lib/ajax.php:541) in /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php on line 556

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/genesis-connect/lib/ajax.php:541) in /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php on line 557

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/genesis-connect/lib/ajax.php:541) in /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php on line 558

I get the same error for other users but message will go thru.

are you using genesis connect by any chance? I have a post in to them about it…

Try the following:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616

Or:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-44729

Add the code to your theme’s functions.php.

You’d probably want to echo the result.

Use the following in topic.php:
`bp_forum_send_private_message_link()`

And not:
`bp_forum_get_send_private_message_link()`

Have you read over the FAQs here: (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/private-buddypress/)?

I have the same question

I reinstalled the forums and then created more groups (my first group was private). Now it works fine. So I have no idea what to tell you. This is a completely fresh install I did about an hour before I posted I was having the problem.

Try adding more groups and putting in some test posts. That’s what fixed mine. (When I reinstalled, I was still having the same problem until I added more groups.)

What BP version are you on? That issue has been fixed https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2759 to address deprecated notice if you’re on PHP 5.3+

== It shouldn’t need 33MB of RAM just to activate the plugin. ==
It depends on server configurations ultimately. I set up a BP install for a friend on a shared hosting plan with 32MB and it’s running well with a private community of 250+ members. Resolve the deprecated notices issues first and see if you still need to increase memory limit.

First thing’s first, if you want to have user-blog-URL’s as http://myname.mysite.com/ then you have to install BuddyPress in domain root http://mysite.com/ Otherwise, if you install BP in secondary site with a subdomain configuration, e.g. http://buddypress.mysite.com/, the glitch is that the user blogs created from the secondary site will turn out like http://myname.buddypress.mysite.com/
Reported here: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1796

== 4. but when i do that , the links etc starts showing in the main site ==
Unless you put in code or widget for sitewide recent posts or for list of all blogs, then those links won’t show up in the home page of your main site.

== i only wants users to see once the login to community ==
Read through to the end of this related topic with solutions for the https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community?topic_page=1&num=15

You should also add some type of nonce verification:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_create_nonce

Reason is in your function anyone can send a Bzzt even if you’re not logged in if they know the correct URL schema.

Right now, your function is coded so it runs whenever the function is called.
You need to create an action listening function at a predetermined slug so your function should run; or if you’re feeling really up to it, use ajax to send the request.

Check out any action function in BP for hints.

Here’s such an example to get you started:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-xprofile.php#L398

I’m afraid that you do need the services of a coder really, you can post in the jobs section for some help or as I said earlier try approaching the themes author which really you should try first as they wrote the theme know their code and how to adapt / modify it.

I’m afraid I no longer help privately on small jobs as they cost too much time, happy to help on support in public posts where I can though.