If you do a search for “private” or “members only” you will find loads of examples of what people are doing to restrict things right now with Buddypress 
Trent
After hours working on that I found a solution, but isn’t definitive and already have a bug! Let’s go. Nicolas, don’t kill me – i’m trying to help! 
In the line 728 on bp-xprofile-classes.php just copy and paste the code bellow:
<div id="titlediv">
<h3><label for="is_public"><?php _e("Is This Field Public?", 'buddypress') ?> *</label></h3>
<select name="is_public" id="is_public" style="width: 30%">
<option value="0"<?php if ( $this->is_public == '0' ) { ?> selected="selected"<?php } ?>><?php _e( 'Public', 'buddypress' ) ?></option>
<option value="1"<?php if ( $this->is_public == '1' ) { ?> selected="selected"<?php } ?>><?php _e( 'Private', 'buddypress' ) ?></option>
</select>
</div>
This code will add an opition in the field edit screen / at ProfileFields Admin – to keep the data private for “non friend users”
But the problem is IF the field have data and you aren’t a friend, you will see the field name, but the data will be hidden. look at my birthday http://voiceover-casting.com/members/admin/
I have tryed do the same with the Groups Fields but doesn’t work. Maybe someone can help me to create “Hidden Field Groups” and found a fix my newbie solusion for the “Private Fields” bug.
Could be nice if in a new version the admin and the users can select “Who can see the data” like: “Public, Only Friends, Hidden (only visible for admin and the owner), “.
Nicolas, I will donate for you soon for your great job.
This is not exactly the same problem as in topic, but I’ll post this here.
I’m using Wp 2.7, bp rc-1 and ds_private_blog plugin.
Sitewide activity records every new post and comment even from the blogs set to be fully private (admin only). How can I exclude those?
A great addition for me would be to create ‘Group Events’, events which are associated with specific groups.
Say my group wanted to organise a meetup, we could go to our group page and under “Forum, Wire, Members” etc there would be a “Group Events” option, which when clicked would show all our events and have an option to add a new one. When creating that event we could choose to send invites to the members of the group instead of adding them individually.
If the group is private or hidden our events would also be private/hidden. Group Events would also appear on my personal Events page.
I know there’s a plugin or script to make members and groups private. I can’t find it or how is it done?
Not private? No it’s a completely open site. It’s been an experimental development site up to this point. I’m rushing around trying to undo all the experimental stuff and turn it into a real website now. Have to do that to do support for plugins.
It’s always going to be kind of unstable. I test alot of ideas there.
@burtadsit, You have a cool site,but its not private for members. Is that meant be?
One thing. The new post info and event only gets sent over to bp if the group forum is a ‘public’ group forum. Non group forum activity is ignored as is private and hidden group forums. Sitewide activity doesn’t get updated for the private and hidden stuff in bp.
Can’t send over the ‘open’/’community’ forum posts because the sitewide activity has to be associated with a group.
@john, I included some template tags in the bbGroups package that demonstrates some of that theme’s use of bp centric features. I didn’t include the forums feature because it was specific to the theme. I’ll just zip up that theme and post it on my blog for you to look at the code. Gimme a few.
OK. It’s here: http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/oci.zip
You should just be able to unzip that in my-templates. One thing though. bbPress doesn’t seem to have a functions.php file that gets run in each theme/template as wp does. So I had all the template specific code being launched from my oci_bb_group_forums.php plugin. I’ve got all the template code living in oci_bb_custom.php so it get loaded up automatically. I included my oci_bb_custom.php file in the template zip. Just drop that in my-plugins and it’ll be loaded by the bbGroups plugin in bbpress.
If you look at the front-page.php file you’ll see how the forum list is generated.
<?php oci_forum_list('open', 'Community Forums', false); ?>
<?php oci_forum_list('readonly', 'Group Forums', true); ?>
<?php oci_forum_list('hidden', 'Private Forums', true); ?>
That fn is a little out of date. I used to have an option in there to generate identicon avatars for all forums. Even the forums that weren’t bp related. I took that capability out. What it does do now is display avs for the currently logged in user’s groups only.
BuddyPress is a set of WPMU plugins, so if you want add new feature, install it and have extended profile, private messages, ecc… the answer for your question is Yes, you can.
These are the tickets left.
I will be posting an announcement on the blog today regarding the release and more information about the plans going forward.
Just thought I’d show interest in an events module/addition to groups too.
As already mentioned being able to create an event with info, invite members and allow an RSVP would be brilliant. Just throwing in a few more thoughts:
– Allowing users to click say “I’m attending”/”I might attend”/”I’m not attending” buttons and their status showing on the events would be great.
– Have an “invited but not replied” status.
– Have maybe public/private events. Public events allow anyone (in that group?) to sign up/invite others, private events don’t.
As I say – just a few thoughts… Such a module/extension of groups would be amazing.
At the moment yes. Things are as you describe. I’ve got a little plugin coming out when bp goes 1.0 that integrates bp group forums and bbpress. bp Public groups will be readonly in bbpress except for group members. Private and Hidden groups will have their forums hidden in bbpress except for group members. Group admins and moderators will have forum moderation capabilities in bbpress.
Hi, sorry for my bad english.
I looking for a plugin that makes buddypress a private network. I found this plugin: Secure invitations – http://wpmudev.org/project/secure-invitations. But its not work with BP.
Can anyone intagrate this plugin with BP?
Yes, it’s not the blog-privacy issue (although if a blog was private and afterwards set to public I have experienced, that it didn’t really change the way it should…).
@sdq80: Yes, same for me. Sometimes it seamed, that something was deleted (i didn’t look it up in the database). I thought maybe it is a function that kicks activity out after a while…
If the blog is set to ‘Private’ activity will not be recorded for that blog.
Thanks, Burt and Trent, for posting this. Really, really helpful when you have to create a private social network, as I do, at a university.
Yeah, that is what I mean. If adding things like “embed” or “object” code scares you to death, you can always include something like Anarchy Media Player where you can include the javascript in the buddypress theme header and then it will parse the page for the plugin quickcode and display the media that way. That is a way some are already doing it with things like bbPress where the media plugin doesn’t exist yet.
Andy put a filter on the tags used in wire. It allows common HTML now, but with a plugin can also be used to change the allowed tags to anything you want. I am going to do this on an extremely private install, but thinking about Anarchy as well. Just haven’t had time.
Trent
I am sure dsader can fix it without much effort. I opted generally to go with the plugin I have referenced before called “Members Only” on my smallest install which is just for family. Reason I went with this plugin over dsaders was both the RSS feeds as well as the ability to have the blogs you want still being “public” in their settings, but still members only.
What that means is the main WPMU blog can be private and only accessible to logged in members. If blog 1 is public, it shows in the main sitewide feeds. If blog 2 is private to members only, I can still set it as “public access” in the privacy options, but the “members only” plugin will not allow viewing without logging in, but the blog posts will still show in the main WPMU blog widgets.
Not the best solution for larger sites, but I am assuming that when Andy has a chance to implement the privacy options into buddypress, this will be a moot issue at some point.
Just some additional thoughts.
Trent
I’ve just posted this to the WPMU forums, but it’s just as relevant here: Regarding dsader’s more privacy options plugin…
“I’m testing this plugin on a WPMU 2.7 and BuddyPress (both from SVN) installation. It can turn BuddyPress into a private social network quite simply by making the main/first blog private. However, there’s one issue I can see:
the ../activity/feed RSS feed is private when the ‘main’ blog is private.
But, member’s activity feeds i.e. ../members/josswinn/activity/feed remains public.
Any way to fix this? I appreciate that the plugin wasn’t written to support BuddyPress, but it’s so close to working well on BuddyPress that it would be good to look at this and provide a way to create truely close BuddyPress networks.
Thanks!”
I’ve since found that this is happening to me on a site installed in a sub-dir but not on an install using wildcard DNS/sub-domain. Can anyone verify this?
That’s very reassuring that you’re using dsaders privacy plugin, too. Nice to see such a simple solution already exists to provide private BuddyPress communities while not affecting the privacy of individual’s blogs. In education, I can see this being very attractive. Hopefully Andy is aware of this for future core feature development.
I’ve not tested it extensively yet, but this plugin:
http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options
seems to allow the blocking of all users, except the registered community, from viewing anything related to buddypress.
If I set “I would like my blog to be visible only to registered users from blog community” for the main/first blog where all the buddypress features sit, then you have to login before being able to see anything except for blogs, which have their own privacy options.
Is it really this simple to create a private social networking community but allow the blog privacy to remain under the control of the blog owner? I hope so. Perhaps someone can test and verify this?
Thanks.
