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Hi, @raminjan you can certainly achieve that, both making it yourself working at code level or (what I suggest) start with a plugin that achieves the “private community” functionality and set yourself a “front page” (you’ll use a modified version of the login page I guess ).

Here are some helpful links on how to do what you need:

http://wpmu.org/buddypress-news-create-your-own-private-buddypress-community/
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/buddypress-collaboration-system/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/

Hope it helps! cheers,

-JM

@raminjan know that we are all unpaid volunteers helping out here, living in different time zones and have lives outside of BP and WP.

You have created many number of topics, some of which I answered and other topics were answered by others. And private messaging is turned off because others have abused it already.

BuddyPress is an opensource software, i.e., free and we try to help out as many people as we can, not just one. And when I was still a student, I recall doing my own research (Google et al) when I didn’t know the answers. So be patient and stay cool.

Would the ‘private’ group type work for you? It’s not trivial (or maybe even possible) to add a new type of group privacy without serious work.

I wouldn’t trust anything reported by a automated scanner, how does it know what is being done to sanitize user data?

WP has a range of functions available to deal with data sanitization, as BP is built by a core team extremely familiar with WP functions and best practises and including a WP employee amongst them it follows that all best practises for handling data are adhered to.

If you think not then you will probably need to run a few more tests that are known as reliable and report your findings directly and privately to one of the core BP team.

In 1.6 beta 2 https://buddypress.org/2012/07/buddypress-1-6-beta-2/ there is a facility to restrict visibility of profile fields to —-> Anyone, Logged In Users or My Friends.

In addition there is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-privacy/ for earlier versions of buddypress. This can restrict visibility of profile fields to —-> Everyone, My Friends, or Only Me

I’m interested too. Some users might want that.

If you are using the bp-default theme —

All you have to do is login, visit someone’s profile, and the send message buttons are there

BuddyPress supports private messaging ‘straight out of the box’ by default (‘send message’).

Do you mean ‘instant messaging’?

Haraldo, there is nothing wrong with your install, there is NO built in way to message all users in BP. The site notification will merely place a widget type notice at the top of your sidebar for all logged in users, which thy can then choose o close. It isn’t emailed or passed as a private message.

There are a couple of old plugins for this such as: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-mass-messaging/screenshots/

It’s an option that is useful, HOWEVER, I would strongly recommend you export your users to CSV. Again export plugins are available and import people into a 3rd party email service like Mailchimp.

This is far better for email marketing, however in itself is a bit tricky, as unless your members have signed up or opted into a list, it’s technically breaking the T&C’s of all 3rd party mail apps.

The problem with sending email direct from your server is if you get people unwittingly or deliberately labelling your mail as junk/ spam in clients like hotmail, yahoo and gmail, the ip address of your server can get blacklisted.

At that point NO mail at all from your server is going to get through to those services, not just for the accounts that labelled you as spam but your server will be blocked and mail won’t reach anyone with a hotmail address etc.

Sounds dramatic but it could kill your community if you aren’t careful.

You should always use a 3rd party.

Rules are still incredibly stringent though. You are generally allowed one spam complaint in every 1000 emails sent.

Hope that helps!