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Also, the reason I was using the ‘Groups’ plugin was soley so I could have group exclusive content and nothing else. I can sets all kinds of nice access and permissions rules, but there is a disconnect between the plugin’s features and the built in groups feature of BP, so the results fall far short of desired.

Hi bollocks187-
I was just a little confused how groups was intended for use within WordPress/BuddyPress. To give you some insight as far as where I’m coming from, I’m moving from a Groupsite environment. In that environment, you can have ‘x’ number of groups. The groups can by hidden just like in WP/BP, but can have their very own content exclusive to them, which is hidden from non-members of that group (as expected). Likewise, members of a given group can communicate freely between each other. I was looking for a feature set within WP/BP that mimicks that behavior. The other thing missing is a peer recognition feature- kind of like a way for one user to endorse another. (another Groupsite feature). Think of this as a kind of letter of recognition from one user to another, so anyone visiting the endorsed member’s profile would see a senior member/administrator endorses/vouches for/recommends that user. I’ve been working with a messload of different plugins with varying levels of success/failure (far more failures than successes) and was getting a little frustrated -iterative testing to ensure a new plugin doesn’t break existing working plugins and trying to determine the UI for a new plugin since it’s often a sorely overlooked feature for so many developers.

I’m now looking into the possibility of using groups forums to address some of what I want to do, but am hoping that by doing so, it won’t confuse end users by having them try to contend with two separate types of forums – one open and public, and the other being ‘x’ number of private instances, one for each hidden group.

Thanks Paul. Ticket Created: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4305

Thanks Paul-
Okay, so that begs the question- what are groups used for within WordPress/BuddyPress? If you deactivate forums, there’s not much left. You can’t contact just the people in that group. And I’m still looking for a good plugin to handle making content pages exclusive to certain groups. I’ve tried ‘Groups’ by itthinx, but there is a big disconnect between the actual BuddyPress groups and the groups within the ‘Groups’ plugin. So if I have a pre-existing group, the ‘Groups’ plugin doesn’t recognize it. If I name an existing group within the ‘Groups’ plugin, there is no members associated with it (since it is treated as a new group, but that can only be accessed via the plugin) so security doesn’t really apply. Any light you can shed on this would be appreciated.

Thanks

Anyone at all?

Checking back in- my original post got lost several pages in the jumble and I hadn’t heard anything. Anyone have any feedback about PMing groups?

Thanks. I had an old plugin — wordpress private. Switched to Private Buddypress. Works now.

<?php

/**
* Admin Bar
*
* This code handles the building and rendering of the press bar.
*/

/**
* Instantiate the admin bar object and set it up as a global for access elsewhere.
*
* To hide the admin bar, you’re looking in the wrong place. Unhooking this function will not
* properly remove the admin bar. For that, use show_admin_bar(false) or the show_admin_bar filter.
*
* @since 3.1.0
* @access private
* @return bool Whether the admin bar was successfully initialized.
*/
function hide_admin_bar() {
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘hide_admin_bar’ );

function _wp_admin_bar_init() {
global $wp_admin_bar;

if ( ! is_admin_bar_showing() )
return false;

/* Load the admin bar class code ready for instantiation */
require( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/class-wp-admin-bar.php’ );

/* Instantiate the admin bar */
$admin_bar_class = apply_filters( ‘wp_admin_bar_class’, ‘WP_Admin_Bar’ );
if ( class_exists( $admin_bar_class ) )
$wp_admin_bar = new $admin_bar_class;
else

I always make stupid mistakes like these. . I really should start reading “php for dummies” .

works amazingly well now, and thank you for explaining the function the 9 and 2 has. you got great coding skills.

thanks a lot. yup that was pretty much what i had in mind. a profile that only friends can see .

I tried the function. but doesn’t seem to work. Probably my fault. anyways I changed the 9 and 2 id to the categories I wanted removed from activity but they still show up. do I have to change something else in this code also?

I really appreciate that you wrote and/or shared this code btw.

@shanebp I’m working on using Aurigma Up on our private site for the change-avatar.php file. If you don’t mind me asking you:

1. How did you handle ‘uploadUrl’ request? Did you send it to an upload file and process it there? Or did it bring it back to the change-avatar.php file?
2. Then when you redirected it back to change-avatar, how did you get image processed?

Thanks for your help. Once I get it working, I’ll writing it so everyone can see how to do it.

Hi, I found the problem – the plugin WP Buddypress private community was conflicting with it, so I deactivated the plugin and now the link goes through.

Thanks Mercime, Queenieb & Odofincaleb for all your help, really appreciate it!