BuddyPress.org

Hey, sorry to resurrect this thread, but I tried that plugin myself and it seems fine mostly, except I need the events to be private to groups and for group members to be able to create events.

Are there any alternatives that support this, or some (relatively easy) way to make that work?

Thanks in advance!

Yes I’d say it can, BP has Hidden and PRivate groups, which means only invited site members can join. For added security you can install BP Registration Options which would allow you to vet all new site members and a privacy plugin such as BP Members Only would make doubly sure of the overall privacy of the site. Search engines won’t see anything since they are not members of the site and those pages will only be available to view by site members who have been invited to join the group. Also, if an existing member wee to turn troll, it’s a lot easier to ban then from the platform entirely.

You should ask on the bbPress forums regarding limiting the topic size.

For private messages and also Activity update size restrictions I’ve just added those restriction capabilities into my plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-messaging-control/, I’d welcome your feedback, but make it on the plugin forum, this ones only for BuddyPress.

I used the inspect element, the hidden group isn’t in the group-list, I can see all the groups that are displayed correctly. Some are private, some public, but no hidden groups. It was a great idea.

@dopeboy Please contact him directly.
Please do not use these forums for private conversations.

You might like to take a look at this plugin – https://github.com/imath/altctrl-public-group It allows a private group to have a public landing page. Think it’s what you are looking for.

I’ve just tested this a bit more thoroughly. I set up two private groups and I had browsers open on each of their activity pages. I added a new activity to one group, the browser looking at that groups activity feed had a “load Newest” popup and it loaded that groups activity. The browser looking at the other group did nothing, so yep I can’t replicate your issue.

So if it’s just a catalogue content creation type thing you should be able to do it with the right combination of plugins and a bit of customisation. You’d need to find a suitable solution for the product catalogue but it’s just a custom post type with specific templating. There’s a few ways of doing it, if you don’t need the eccommerce there’s no need for the bloat of it.

Then you just need to sort out the user messaging, I’ve a plugin, BP Profile Shortcodes Extra, it’s got a private message shortcode, any vendor could use that to let their customers know how to contact them.

I’ve another plugin, BP Messaging Control, it allows you to set rules on who can message who. Not sure if you want to control that but it could help stop sellers spamming users.

There’s also stuff you can do to customise the messaging interface itself – you can insert content pretty easily and there’s a range of options for customising the use profile area, which is where BP Messaging lives.