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I just found this post, because I finally hit the wall with my recent implementation. Users are going to want their stuff to be private. I can’t wait to see what comes of this AC. I would be happy to test Alpha releases.

I also agree that the Privacy menu should be located in BP Settings area.

The privacy component is so good, that it’s set to “private” in the core and you can’t even find it!

Jeff’s component is still under some stage of review and AFAIK hasn’t been released for private testing yet. There’s no promise that Jeff’s code will get integrated into the BP Core, that decision is Andy Peatling’s.

I’d assume the plan is to get a plugin out that is compatible with BP 1.1 as BP 1.2 isn’t likely to be released until January.

@Paul

Haha!

By saying, “This thread is pretty old”, I meant the thread to which I was about to provide the link. I did not mean this thread as in this actual thread!

New thread? What? I can see only wordpressfan’s post above yours…..

This thread is pretty old, especially since there have been many changes to BP over the 7 months since it was first started. But, there are some good hints about what you can do.

Please remember that the bp-custom.php file should be placed in /wp-content/plugins/ and not /mu-plugins/ as is mentioned early on in the thread. When the thread was first started, that location was correct. But not anymore.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/securing-components-from-non-logged-in-users

I’ve put all my website as private. You can make that happen. But then you won’t get any traffic from google. It’s all a matter of how private you want it to be.

Not exactly the answer but did you read this ?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/private-groups-and-forum#post-24964

I just tested on testbp.org and they are correct. It is a bug.

ticket created:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1226

Hi welshpixie – is there a chance you’re using More Privacy Options for WP? You might want to see the following https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/more-privacy-options-private-blogs-and-activity-streams

Could be a bug. Would someone confirm this on http://testbp.org/

Another idea is to have all non-group-specific forums belong to a sort of invisible, public group that everyone on the site is a member of. That way, anyone could post to the forum, and its topics would show up in the forum directory as you’d expect.

The trick would be to get that group not to appear on group directories, both public and individual, since the group would be nothing more than a shell for public forums and thus wouldn’t have any other content worth listing on people’s group and activity pages. It’d be easy enough to add a piece of metadata to each group that determined whether it should be listed in directories (independently of the public/private/hidden distinction). The problem is that groups are listed in lots of different places in BP, and you’d have to hijack each one of them in order to filter for this metadata. Such a plugin would be a pain to build and to maintain, I expect, as group lists are posted in more and different places throughout BP.

There is only one official site for BuddyPress discussion and that is this site.

bp-dev.org is a private site run by one of our moderators–Nicola Greco. He started it after he personally created several, early plugins for BuddyPress. I believe it served as an early plugin repository before BuddyPress plugins were hosted on WordPress.org.

I’m not aware of any captcha plugins for this, but it’s a good idea. I haven’t time to look into the code atm.

Is there any way to enable captcha or something similar on BP private messaging?

That’s where I’m seeing more and more abuse lately. Somehow sploggers register with my site, then PM all the users with kiddie port links. It’s really bad.

I don’t quite have a handle on how they’re doing this. There must be some sort of evil script that goes through the member directory and messages member after member. Have other people seen this, and, if so, any suggestions on how to combat it?

@alexduvot

Let’s please keep this discussion to the public forums and not in private messaging. You will get better results with multiple people looking at this thread.

Okay, one more time, please answer these questions.

@ Erich:

Just mind reading Andy.. but I’m guessing you have to be logged in as well as a member to see the latest “hidden” topics.

“Private and hidden forum posts do not show up in the forums directory regardless of your logged in state. This will probably change in the future but there was not enough time for 1.1.”

@Andy,

why do you want to change this in the future ? I do not see a logic in making Private and Hidden Forum-posts showing-up in publicly visible “Forum Topic Directory”.

If it does, then “Private-Groups” are not private anymore……

Private and hidden forum posts do not show up in the forums directory regardless of your logged in state. This will probably change in the future but there was not enough time for 1.1.

There is a bug that will not allow you to post on private and hidden group forums in 1.1, this is fixed in trunk and will be in 1.1.1 which will be out soon.