I got this client that wants this functionality for a member:
* Each member should have their own private blog ONLY them can access, kinda like a diary.
* Each member should have their own “Notes” blog, which is also gonna be private for that member only
* Each member should have their own “Link-list” page
* A forum where all members can ask questions and get answers from experts. All members can also answer a topic. You should also be able to follow specific topics of your choosing.
* The blogs need to have front end posting, no WP back end posting for members. This is a requirement!
Thats the kind of community a client of mine wants. I thought of BP as a possible solution for this. Since I have never developed for BP before, I have been using WP for over 1.5 year now. So I am very familiar with WP coding. Do you guys think I would have to develop custom solutions/my own plugins for BP to get the functionality I need? Or use much of the plugins that exist to help me achieve this? Am I choosing the right plattform for this project? Would it be much hassle to achieve this with BP + WP multi site?
I am wondering if it is possible to have buddypress run on multiple sites but at the same time make certain sites only available to some users. For example, I want to have all of the members show up on a global site say abc.com and then have a subsite for each state say, abc.com/california and abc.com/oregon where only the members from those state will be visible. The only way that I know how to do this now is by using private groups but that does not give me all of the functionality that I need. Any thoughts?
I’ve now added greater support for allowing access to your site. In the array of allowed URIs, you can now use ‘*’ at the end of an allowed URI,
e.g. Array(‘/public-blog’, ‘/public-blog/*’) would allow access to ‘/public-blog/post-1’, ‘/public-blog/post-2’, etc…
This is useful for allowing greater access to your site while keeping it private, and for allowing access to parts of your site that certain other plugins might require.
See FAQs for more information:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-private-community/home/
@Gpo1, what happened?
Could you give your feedback in the plugin’s forum:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-private-community/forum/
The general response has been good so far, it seems to be working fine for everyone else, so I’d be interested to know what’s going wrong for you.
Did you get an error message?
It killed my site this plugin
Hi, I’m the person who started this thread about 5 months ago!
I’ve been messing around with my own solution for a while now, and I’ve created my first couple of WP/BP plugins recently.
In fact, I’ve just released my BuddyPress Private Community Plugin:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-private-community/
Somebody has already given it 5 stars!
It’s basically a single static class that has a few customizable settings, you can block RSS feeds, stop widgets from displaying when the user is logged out, and set an array of pages that are public. Of course you can set the redirect page when I logged out user tries to access a private page too. It defaults to the home page, but I suggest you change that in the config.
There is an example of how to create your own config file for the plugin, one that is saved in a place that won’t be overwritten when you update the plugin and that doesn’t require database access – so it should be a lightweight and quick plugin.
It’s been working great for me, let me know what you think and if you find any bugs!
+1
I’ve got a client who needs private blogs (to hide from the scary google robots) but a public directory.
~Kyle~
I can’t find a link on the front or back end to allow me to invite members to a group whether it’s public or private.
Can someone please tell me where to find this. I’ve recently upgraded to WP 3.0.1
@Driftless1 “Are we trying to artificially create a difference where there is none? Or is the difference there – Buddypress is just not making it clear enough?”
I think they are all the same, they are all just conversations, with different ways of going about having it. Buddypress seems confusing or lost in between because it is rightfully tyring to integrate these barely different means of having conversations into one more complete and convenient system.
The site I am working on has had a main news/blog section for about 3 years now. So I am looking at 3 main types of conversations
1. Comments on news articles and the comments on their comments which can become a lot like a forum topic.
2. An actual forum topic started by the user them self about something they feel is important enough for the world to hear.
3. Short and pointless twitter/facebook type comments that they don’t necessarily care to share with the world, whether it is because it is private or they know it just isn’t important enough, just something for friends who might be interested in know “omg! i finally finished all my cleaning my gutters!”
I think it just comes down to the user. It is about a user and their conversations, where ever they are taking place, then being fed back to one convenient location for all their buddies to find. I think it would be really neat to create some kind of universal user profile similar to gravatar so what ever website you are on, you can comment there and it will feed back to your personal profile with a link to that website and that comment so your friends can see what you are talking about out there and maybe jump in the conversation also. This would obviously open a pandora’s box of options on how or where you want your conversations to appear, but I’m certain that is the direction for “web 2.0.” The same way we boycot proprietary code, browsers, file types, or software, I think we will boycot myspaces and facebooks for universal profiles.
I just had another check, from another profile and
user with ‘normal’ rights
and the same problem happens,
message is sent to 2 people, One random, and one who I have deleted as admin for spamming via wordpress admin panel 
sorry, it is WPMU 2.9.1 and Buddypress 1.2.3 (I think)
there are many plugins installed and some small modifications, but not related to PM
what I think may have triggered it, is i had to delete some spammers, and deleting via buddypress did not seem to work, so I went to wp-admin and deleted one or two spammers there,
but it asked me to transfer their posts to my (admin) profile,
there were no posts, but that dialog box came up, so I accepted it.
and it had completed the delete process successfully,
WP/BP versions? Did you change theme, plugins or upgrade something before this PM behavior happened?
Hi,
We have a strange problem with PM on our site,
when me, as admin send a PM to someone – 1 user
it appears later , that it was sent between 3 o4 4 users,
while it was intended to only one of them!
Has anyone had similar problem?
thanks
Kris
I need to change the default status when groups are created. They are originally set to ‘public’ and I want all new groups to be ‘private’ unless otherwise indicated by the user. Where would I find this in the code? Somewhere in bp-groups-classes.php?
Any direction is greatly appreciated 
Hi Roger (and everyone else!), i think i’m going somewhere now, but will need some extra input. hopefully the thread will be an additional useful example!
ok, this is where i am at: default theme with the ajax controllers at the top of the activity stream. in the activity folder of the child theme i have an index.php and activity-loop.php and and entry.php.
basically i’ve got a ‘private’ area with content accessible only to staff. for normal post/pages i have is an extra check based on a custom field for posts and the category for pages like the following and then based on the group membership i either show a message or the actual content:
http://pastebin.com/E4cnkwZS (top)
now, because the group is private, the BP stuff is not showing in the activity stream already, which is good, but the posts/pages bypass my checks and come up in the list of activities showing the actual content which should be private instead.
so, here is what i came up with so far. using the index.php i check the group membership and then load two different activity-loops:
http://pastebin.com/E4cnkwZS (bottom)
how would you exclude stuff? in the bp_has_activity function there is an ‘include’ option which allows to filter content, but not an ‘exclude’ one. it might be trivial to go around it, but not sure how. furthermore if you use the dropdown filter i have the impression that the arguments are passed dynamically resetting whatever is passed in the original query (like in your example and some i’ve tried using the same model).
i would very much appreciate any further suggestion! thanks
Wanted to say thank you and put in my endorsement for @Travel-Junkie ‘s great, simple privacy solution.
Re-posting that code below for simplicity’s sake, found at this comment link:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616
Running WP 3.0.1 single-site with BuddyPress 1.2.5.2.
Add to functions.php (may be titled Theme Functions in your Dashboard Theme Editor):
function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;
if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() )
return;
if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .’/’. BP_REGISTER_SLUG );
}
add_action( ‘get_header’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );
OK. Thanks to the help of several people, the tutoring area on the classroom site [ http://www.thechembook.com/tutoring/ ] is working with the exception of one private group not showing the topics. When logged in as admin, my hope is for a teacher group to show on the page, along with the topics. I get the group title but not the topics. Once I click into the private group forum then I can see the topics listed.
Is there a private / public setting that can be done in the loop? Here is the code: http://pastebin.com/cEGmNL5X
Thank you.
huh I make that 5 mins .
Can’t wait for the privacy plugin as that’s the way forward, I anticipate a massive rush to download it when released, just hope that rush is matched by a rush to donate even if token gestures 
If and when I recommend someone use a plugin in future I think I’ll be adding a reminder to donate a small token of gratitude to the author.
Well, @hnla beat me to the answer by 4 minutes!
A quick search with the proper terms will bring up a number of options. This post in this thread should help. Once my BuddyPress Privacy Component is out in the wild, you will be able to easily do this with a simple radio button selection in the Site Admin menu of the component.
Did you try searching the community?
This thread might be worth you reading , it will allow you to make the site completely private to all but registered logged in users, or a variation on ‘All’ if you wanted to show certain pages.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616
How is it possible that all the activity, questions and blogupdates uploaded are private -a login first should be required-.
If there is no beautiful solution like a plugin, would it be possible (because that the network is only about 25 members) to create a .htaccess restriction and post the password to wordpress, so the user only needs to insert the password once?
Thanks!
@psycolor: public group activities (e.g. joining a group, creating a group, posting updates) should appear in the standard activity stream. Which activities are not showing for you?
To hide private group activity from the activity stream – follow the instructions I gave for excluding blogs in this thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/need-exclude-parameter-for-bp_has_activities/
Check whether the activity item action is group related, then use the primary id of the item to get the group_id, and then check whether it is one of your private groups.
As per my comment on blogs, you can do this for all activity loops by using the filter, or on a loop by loop basis.
hi everyone,
i’m struggling a bit with the customisation of the activity stream. it is my understanding that not all activity is actually appearing in the main activity stream.
i have looked at the codex and although it seems to have a number of options, i’m not sure how to make a custom function for my theme that allows to add all activities in public groups to come up in the main activity stream. can anyone suggest a possible solution?
the second issue i have is that i would like all activities related to a particular group not to show in the stream. so for example, if person x is posting in the blog i would like to hide this activity from people not in the private group. Note i already have an extra step in the loop which checks for group membership and hides the post/page from non-members, i just want to hide it from the stream as well, but i can’t figure out where to do this.
any guidance/suggestion will be very much appreciated!
