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Are you the site admin? You should be able to access all levels of groups (public, private, hidden) without needed to be a member. Does it happen every time you create a private group, or just this specific group?

@jcaynes If you followed plugin instructions per plugin page, you would have created another folder and file like so
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-private-community-config/mm-buddypress-private-community-config.php
Delete that as well

@jcaynes this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/ has not been updated for BP 1.5+. Delete it from your installation.

== it looks so rubbish in IE. ==
Yup, IE < 9 is bane of designer/developer There are still at least 2 solutions as I pointed to above if you want to pursue the buttons later.

== But please is there a way to wrap the Edit Profile link which is in the item-header so that it shows on your own profile alone and not when viewing others profile. instead of hiding it under private message button. ==

Saw your new topic and answered you there https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-link-show-on-your-profile-alone/

There can only be normally one background image per element in CSS2 so when you add the icon, it will override the gradient background created in parent theme. You could add extra bg-img using pseudo-elements but that’s good for modern browsers and IE8+ only.

You can use multiple background images for one element with CSS3 compatible with most modern browsers incl. IE9 above. But if you have users who use IE8 below, it will note show up at all.

One solution for cross-browser compatibility down to IE7 is to create an image with the icon and the gradient background, e.g. activity-time-since-with-gradient-background.png, together and hook that to the link:
`div#item-header #send-private-message a {
background: transparent url(_inc/images/activity-time-since-with-gradient-background.png) left center no-repeat !important;
padding-left: 25px;
}`
Of course your image name won’t be that long.

The other solution is this: http://www.norestfortheweekend.com/2011/02/26/css3-gradients-multiple-backgrounds-and-ie7/ This is more involved but a great learning experience if you have the time.

@naijaping Hook the background image to your link. Add this to your stylesheet
`div#item-header #send-private-message a {
background: transparent url(_inc/images/activity-time-since.png) left center no-repeat !important;
padding-left: 25px;
}`

In addition, you have two styles for `div#item-header #send-private-message` and the second one overlaps and hides the Edit Profile link. So look for `div#item-header #send-private-message`

Keep the first one below
`div#item-header #send-private-message {
float: left;
position: absolute;
right: 330px;
top: 22px;
}`

Delete the second one below
`div#item-header #send-private-message {
right: 243px;
}`

I do that on jbsocial.com using the following plugins

Member Access
PC Hide Pages
Peter’s Login Redirect
Simple Access Control

Can you pls let me know how can i get in touch with you in a private msg ?

thx

Oh this site is just beautiful!

Would you be kind enough to share some information about what kind of hosting (virtual private server vs shared hosting) this site is running on?

Many thanks!

If you don’t want anyone in any group to be able to send invites, put the following in your bp-custom.php file:

function bbg_no_send_invites( $can_send_invites ) {
$can_send_invites = false;

return $can_send_invites;
}
add_filter( 'bp_groups_user_can_send_invites', 'bbg_no_send_invites' );

If you want to be more selective than that – for instance, allowing only group admins to invite, or blocking invites only in private groups – you’ll need to put some more logic in there before setting $can_send_invites to false.