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Some form of media manager/gallery is a future BuddyPress feature. Until that is made available, you will have to look to 3rd-party solutions.

Just be aware of the issue of licensing when using Kaltura. Although Kaltura.org is self-described as open source video, and in fact its component code is licensed under GPL3, when you use the hosted solution–that is you are not storing your users’ media on your own server but instead on a Kaltura Media Network server–then all of your users’ content is automatically made available under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. See this Kaltura forum thread:

• http://www.kaltura.org/how-do-you-protect-my-video-public-usage

What does this mean? Well, it means you better clearly state to all your members that anything they upload via your site will automatically get licensed under CC 3.0. This means it will be freely available to anyone else to see and to use as they see fit within the CC licensing specifications.

That may not seem like a big deal to you if you are a fan of CC, but you should not assume that all your members will think the same way or necessarily want their content to be made available for free use.

Thankfully, there is a solution. If your using the self-hosted version of Kaltura.org–Kaltura Community Edition (CE)–then you can set the licensing rights for all member-submitted content. This means you can effectively control the privacy of your members’ content if that is important to you, your site, and your members.

If you choose to use Kaltura CE for your site, then you will need to make sure that you have sufficient storage and bandwidth to meet the needs of your site. Also, I have no idea of what kind of tech support Kaltura offers users of the CE version.

Finally, Kaltura is a for-profit company who is freely offering an open source media hosting solution via their kaltura.org site. They do offer premium services as well. So, if you have the budget, you can purchase a premium account to make all your users’ content private. At least that is what was indicated in the thread response in the first link above. You can visit http://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/video_solution for more information.

Note: look at the footer on the above Kaltura link to see how they handle the CC issue. I would argue that you would also want to make the CC issue very clear in any TOS and actually right under any media “Upload” link.

I just came to your profile to request friending, and you’d sent one to me already! For some reason Private Messaging seems to be broken here at the moment.

One other thing I just noticed — I don’t see a Links filter button on my Sitewide Activity widget, but there’s one on your site… Is there a config page I missed somewhere or maybe a small bug?

hey my friends, I am not able to send a Private-Mail via this website buddypress.org , even not to my BP-friends….. could you please fix this ?

@JJJ

I am using the latest FireFox-browser, but I am quite sure this is not related to the browser being used. The PM-system has worked fine previously, something must have happened in the meantime……

Thanx

Private messages?

At the moment the easiest way to do this is to mark the blog as private. The adverse effect to this is that blog doesn’t show up in search engine results or anywhere else in your BuddyPress installation either.

Check the trac and see if there’s an enhancement ticket for this yet. If not, let us know this is something you’re interested in and maybe it will make it into a future version.

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.