Hi Michael,
which content you are talking about which is missing ? Activity-content or Forum-content ?
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2072
Still no updates/suggestions on this???
Some of you guys must check your Private Messages …
I appreciate the suggestion , but no possible solutions yet from the developers
@r-a-y,
Do you have a code snippet that I can start with?
Update to BP 1.2. You aren’t going to get much support for 1.1.3 as so much has changed.
@tyler ~ I’ve now built two similar ‘medical related’ sites where the privacy was of utmost concern and I used my code from above beautifully. You could drop the plugin and the secondary install and just use that for any pages you want to keep private from both unregistered users and spiders/robots.
you are right, this seems to be a bug:
1)
– I have created a Private-Group at testbp.org
when I am logged-in, then I am going to the “Group-Forums-Directory”, it is currently not possible to select this “Private-Group” from the drop-down-box in order to make a post into the Forum of this “Private-Group”.
It is currently only possible to make a Forum-post into this “Private-Group” by going to the “Group-Tab”, then search for that Group and make the post directly within the Group-Forum. But it is not possible to make a Forum-post from the “Group-Forums-Directory”.
2)
also when posting a Forum-post into a “Private-Group”, my own post is actually not visible for myself within the Tab “My Topics” at the “Group-Forums-Directory”.
Well, I would actually want to see MY OWN post, even if it is in a “Private-Group”.
It is also not possible for myself to see MY OWN Forum-post within the Tab “All Topics” at the “Group-Forums-Directory”.
3)
Note: this issue is showing when being logged-in.
4)
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2072
nice analysis ~ I’m also duplicating those errors with the core_redirect pointed to wp-login.php I’d bet Jeff has a good handle on this and I sent a request to help him test the upcoming release. I don’t have a copy of his old release to adapt or modify (if anyone could point me to, or send me the old copy, that might help).. but the hack i put up previously has worked like a charm for me making some pages private while leaving others public without having to expand this into a full on plugin with user options. I simply call that custom header for any pages I want to keep private.
<?php if(!is_user_logged_in()){
nocache_headers();
header("HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily");
header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-signup.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
header("Status: 302 Moved Temporarily");
exit();
} ?>
this quick hack (in the top of header.php) will only registered and logged in users can view. As for using it with version 1.2 default theme ~ I would suggest making a custom header for any of the buddypress elements you want to keep private and keep the rest public. At least until privacy functions are available as a plugin or in core.
@Andy
sorry if my following questions are off-topic:
when I do create a “Private Group” on Group-creation:
– are the members-data who have joined this “Private-Group” visible to search-engines like Google ?
– are the user-images (avatar-images) and user-Profile-Fields of “Private-Group-Members” visible to search-engines ?
– is the user-activity (e.g. Permalink-comments) within a “Private Group” being exploited to search-engines or is it hidden from search-engines ?
– are all data from “Private-Groups” are actually hidden from other members within an installation ?
So if “Private Groups” would be hidden from search-engines, this would be perfect “Privacy” – just need to setup “Private-Groups” only, instead of “Public-Groups” ?
Many thanks.
I checked the DB and the “lost” content in private and hidden groups is still in there. At least that is good! 
The question is: Why doesn’t it show anymore???
Ps: ray doesn’t have the time right now to check (told me on PM)
Can please somebody, who upgraded, check their private/hidden groups for pld (pre-1.2) content?!
@Hempsworth: first of all, great job! The plugin is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
I have 1 feature request: I would like to be able to choose what activities the members are allowed to like. For example: they can only like forum posts and group creations.
Regarding limiting the likers to just friends, as long as you make it an option, I bet there’s a lot of people who might find that useful.
I definitely see 4 different usage scenarios for this:
1 – “open”: you can see the name of everyone who liked it;
2 – “mixed”: you can only see the names of your friends (” and x others” just like your example above);
3 – “closed”: you can only see numbers (total of people who like it)
4 – “private mode” (more a privacy setting than a real scenario): no one sees what you like except you.
Ricardo
I had something like this working before in BP 1.1.3.
You’ll have to modify the /bp-default/members/single/member-header.php file. If you have a child theme, copy this file over and make adjustments.
I am also interested in this type of private messaging.
@finni3 I must agree with @D Cartwright and @Michael here. CInsider the los of utility if your notifications menu all of a suden gives word of every forum posting of every topic you were involved in? Imagine if you posted once and then left for awhile and saw that you had 214 forum replies? What would you do with that?
In general, I think it’s safe to keep screen notifications to those items that post heads ups infrequently but when they do , it’s very important (hence the real need for the heads up) ex a Private Message, Friend Request. Another criterion would be the kind of action required (in the case of a forum reply, the only required action is to read it (not critical, obviously)
I wonder where the spammers get the time to figure out ways to spam sites is there like a spam university or something lol
On my site I even disabled registrations and I still two splogs appear after that, which is very confusing for me indeed.
I can see one problem with sharing info on this forum about fighting spam, and that is that it will give the spammers the info they need to come up with counter attacks. I propose we start a spam eater group where we can share spam info behind the scenes, in fact I am going to start it now, not a perfect solution but still one that could work. What do you guys think?
https://buddypress.org/groups/spam-eater
Its a private group but anyone is welcome to join.
Sounds great ray – would very much appreciate that (if it helps, I could also give you access)
I’m going to flag this for later reading.
I’ll try to reproduce the problem when I have some time.
Theme – same with Bp default
DB – hmm, two different installs, with different DBs on two different servers… sounds strange, but could be.
Anyone else…? PLEASE CHECK your hidden and private groups which had content prior to 1.2… I think it is easy to oversee… but would narrow the stuff down, if everybody else confirms it really is fine on there install. So please post, if it’s REALLY (checked) fine with you…
Thanks!
Is anyone else having this problem? I’ve not seen any other reports which makes me think it might be your theme, or something wrong with your DB.
@andy
I installed 1.2.1., I deactivated every Plugin and every Mu-Plugin – still the same “emptiness” in those groups. I did the same in the other install (the second one, that has that problem – it’s a subdomain-install) and there the problem is also still there… 
You stil have access to my install – you can use it and check it – maybe it helps you debug, like the last bug…
Hi Andrea. Yes, that 1st part is quite easy with BP
the 2nd part is tougher though, as far as I know:
“- the opportunity to manually approve/delete sign-ups based on their answer, at least blocking the unapproved from appearing in blog lists, sidewide activity etc, basically making it 100% private (only vsible for admins) until approved.”
I am running BP 1.2.1.
I read the other threads – and hoped that 1.2.1 would solve the case. But it didn’t…
I deactived all other plugins – but when I register a new test user all the time “my blogs” remains empty – no matter if the blog ist public or private.
Is there a way to reset the table wp_bp_user_blogs. I once changed an entry by hand, maybe that corrupted the system?!?
I don’t think anybody can stop you from posting a file on your server with domains and IP’s which you advise to be blocked… I actually think it would be a good idea to have this info centralized, an Akismet for sign-ups if you please, would save a lot of effort.
Just checked wp-ban’s stats and 4 IP’s were blocked over 1000 times. Though it does not stop splogs, it serves as a good example that sharing info might help, especially if the signup page can check a database of known sploggers or words in blog titles.
A nice feature would be (plugin request!) to have:
– an extra field on signup. Skip all the usless and annoying captcha’s, just a simple question: “why you want a blog?” or more specifically: “what are you going tor write about?”
– the opportunity to manually approve/delete sign-ups based on their answer, at least blocking the unapproved from appearing in blog lists, sidewide activity etc, basically making it 100% private (only vsible for admins) until approved.
Before you ask: I cannot make this, but I will be happy to test if some more skilled person can!
