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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.

Erich, I’m guessing that private and hidden topics will be shown to the logged-in user if they have permission to view them, otherwise just public topics will be shown.

probably I do not understand this discussion, but I would think that “private” and “hidden” Forum-topics shoud NOT show-up within the public “Forum Topic Directory” !

Please clarify.

Its a bug.

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

The current version of bp-contents is not compatible with BuddyPress v1.1. I know that Burt was making some significant improvements to his plugin, waiting for v1.1 to come out before he released it.

I would suggest that you contact him via BuddyPress private messaging and see what he says about a timeline.

@djpaul: I know, I know…sorry I would start my page with an invisible group for beta testers this week, and exactly this feature doesnt work ^^

Ya. I’m amazed you guys are even still on the forum. LOL. You should be out celebrating and/or taking a week off.

madloki, he’s just released a major new version of BuddyPress 2/3 days ago. Any further release – unless there’s a genuine critical bug found, and this isn’t one – I expect will be quite a few weeks at the very least.

Obviously a trunk code fix will happen as soon as Andy or someone else contributes a fix.

Posted this under ticket https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1149

Thanks andy, is there any timeline for the bug?

I will debug this. Only forum posts on public groups will show on the directory.

Same problem, can not create new topics ( Or, he creates the topics but listen only when the group has right 1, private and invisible doesn´t show the topic in the forum directory. Please fix this fast! Many thanks

Hey, I have been having the same problem! I found a partial solution to this in a previous post, but it only makes certain specified ‘slugs’ private, and not the entire site. Is there anyway we can modify this code to make it privatize the whole site?

the code is located in bp-custom.php in the mu-plugins folder.

//this makes directories private



function oci_restrict_access(){

global $bp, $bp_unfiltered_uri;



if (!is_user_logged_in() &&

(BP_MEMBERS_SLUG == $bp_unfiltered_uri[0] ||

BP_FORUMS_SLUG == $bp->current_component ||

BP_GROUPS_SLUG == $bp->current_component ||

BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG == $bp->current_component)){



bp_core_redirect( get_option('home') . "/wp-login.php" );

}

}

add_action( 'wp', 'oci_restrict_access', 3 );

any help would be great!

I am also getting “There was an error when creating the topic” however the topics are being written to the database fine. This only seems to be happening when a group is set to ‘private’ or ‘hidden’.

When the group setting is changed to ‘public’, all of the posts in the database for that group appear and the error is not shown when making new posts.

If the group is public then the forum posts show up in the Forums Directory, if they are private or hidden they do not – which is expected – however the tags for hidden or private posts show up in the ‘forum topic tags list’ – not to serious though.

@gregeland

As this thread was three weeks old before you posted today, and it was already marked as resolved, please start a new thread. Most people who provide assistance will simply ignore threads marked as resolved, preferring to spend time on threads where help is still required.

Also, Matt may or may not see that his 3-week old thread has new activity. So, if you want an answer from him as well, your best bet will be to contact him via private messaging.

I think what we all really want to know is…

Will this plugin keep my thoughts private and protect them from the aliens?

If the group forum is an “open forum” meaning it is not hidden or private, then you will automatically join the group when you post a reply or create a topic in it.