@myjive – Please post this as a defect on Trac.
Login with the same credentials as you use here on bp.org.
Note that changes need to occur in the bp_core_catch_no_access() function to be more cooperative with private access pages.
@themightymo The template file that handles this is bp-default/groups/single/home.php. See around line 44 – bp_group_status_message() creates the “to join this group…” message for private groups. If you want to customize the way that you are redirected, you should start here.
It’s strange, though – BP 1.2.4.1 should do what you are suggesting out of the box. Could there be a plugin conflict? Or an issue with a custom theme that you’ve built?
BTW: I am using WordPress MU 2.9.2 and BuddyPress 1.2.4.1
Hello, fellow BuddyPress’rs!
On the groups page, I have a list of all the groups, both public and private. If I attempt to gain access to a private group when I am not logged in, I am redirected to the home page. Is there any way to redirect to an error page?
It works fine here: http://testbp.org/groups/
but it does not work here: http://unitedfrontmn.org/communities/
The “bp_group_permalink()” function located in “bp-groups-templatetags.php” does not seem to be the correct place to edit this, as I need a conditional statement to say (paraphrase), “If user is not logged in, then redirect to an error page”.
The “groups-loop.php” file seems like the most promising place to edit code, but I don’t see a way to say (in php), “if user is logged in…”.
Can someone point me in the right direction here?
Thanks!
Toby
Re: Forum vs. Activity – I have no doubt that it is harder than is seems, but that’s not relevant to the discussion. The issues being discussed are usability. Any good and usable design begins and ends with users… not programmers.
Re: Autocomplete (my pet peeve) – Sorry, doesn’t make sense to me. I’m free to message any member I want but I’m only given help and feedback when typing in friends names. Huh? If I compose a message to a non-friend by putting their username in “Send to” – I have no indication that I’ve gotten it right until after clicking send. And even then, the feedback is not that clear. An error message could be a wrong username or something else. I know you can more easily message non-friends by visiting their profile (instead of having to remember their username and type it without error) and clicking “Send Private Message”… but that only allows for one recipient. As for the spam issue – that’s a technical issue. We’re talking about usability.
And yes… I have tried to create a plugin and I got 99% there – but I’m not a programmer and I got stuck on how to remove / override the existing autocomplete ajax functions. I asked for help here but didn’t get a response. So I had to hack the core 
Oh well. And for some reason it stopped working the other day. Odd.
Anyway, BuddyPress just seems a little confused when it comes to it’s ideas around Friends, Followers and Members. It feels like an odd mix of Twitter (wide open) and Facebook (walled off).
Hello, I’m looking to embed a buddypress group page (for example lets say the slug is “private-group”) inside a regular wordpress page. Does anyone know what file I should INCLUDE or if there is an existing buddypress api call that will allow me to accomplish this?
BuddyPress really seems to be slowing down when following its TRAC and I have followed it for more than a year now. The only thing I am seeing are Andys updates on his Twitter-page talking about soccer and his iPad. For my understanding, this is an indication that BP is (slowly) dying.
There are only a few major features which need to be developed in the BP-Core-Code in order to make BuddyPress a proper Social-Networking-software:
– Privacy features
– Properly working Private-Groups (I do have a TRAC-ticket out there regarding this)
– Blog-Posts from the Front-End
And most of all: BuddyPress needs to be made much simpler in terms of User-Interface (Navigation & Activity-streams).
Less is More !
KISS (Keep It Simple & Stupid)
I do agree with you Peter. The BuddyPress.org website has become so complicated, I am actually very confused when using it. It was much simpler before with the old design. Also I do not understand why Private-Messages have disappeared ? The “Followers” and “Following”-stuff is quite complicated as well and not thought through at all.
Anyway, for my website I am going to strip-out the Forums-component, as both Forums and Activity make it quite confusing for my users.
I am actually quite disappointed of BuddyPress due to the promised but missing features e.g. “Privacy”, “Properly Working Private-Groups” and “Blog-Posts from the Front-End” and am thinking of using another software than BP. Also feedback and information from the Core-developers on the status of implementation of those features is lacking considerably.
Once again: KISS (Keep It Simple & Stupid)
I have the same thing happening in 3.0 RC3.
I think a trac bug is already filed for this – when you reply to a private message for some reason the notification is updated again.
Ok here is the scenario…can be replicated by all users paying attention on our site 2.9.2/1.4.2.1 (latest stable of both)
Person sends private message to user—>User recepient is notifity in header (Square with a number) –> Recepeint replies to any/all messages –> Recepient goest to anypage on the site –>Recepient’s now STILL has a header notifying them of a private message–> Recepient again checks messages and there are NO new messages—> users then goes to another site area (anywhere) –> Private message notification is gone.
At first I thought this was either a caching plugin issue or browsers caching issue.. I’ve turned off all caching of the site and browser and this still happens… Doesn’t matter what broweser IE,FF, Chrome, Safari…etc.
Ideas? Thanks
Try adding the following in wp-config.php:
define( 'BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE', true );
This should fix your problem.
Hi, when a member clicks on the site admin member, and then clicks on the button to send a “Private Message”
the form does not automatically put the admins user name in the field. When the member tries to add my name, it does not work.
I see that BP is directing the form to this URL… http://halton.ecobeez.biz/members/test/messages/compose/?r=Robert
But the reason it’s not working is because it should be directing to this… http://halton.ecobeez.biz/members/test/messages/compose/?r=admin
Does anyone know how I can fix this?
Thanks
A little further explanation: I am setting this site up for my family. I did not want to create a public forum, mainly because I don’t want our family discussions publicly viewable. So I had set my original group up as private. Since I did not have a public group, I was unable to post anything from the “Forums” tab (Group Forums Directory) since private groups are not shown in the drop-down menu there. This is where the confusion arose and why I started this topic. It was not until we set up a public group that we figured out that it was set up this way on purpose. So since our site will not have any public groups, I have disabled bbPress Forums from the BuddyPress Component Setup in the WordPress Dashboard.
We actually have three groups… one public and two private (two of them set up for testing purposes). The “test group” there now is public. The private groups are not showing up in the drop-down menu when you go to post a new topic in the Group Forums Directory at the “Forums” tab. We found this previously submitted ticket (Ticket #2072) about this issue:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2072
I’m not doing anything wrong, it turns out. This is just the way BP is designed. You’d think if you were signed in, and you belonged to a private group, that they would let you have access to that group when posting from the Group Forums Directory! This should not be considered an “enhancement” at all. It’s just poorly designed and illogical… Go figure.
it seems you only have one group setup (which is private) so is the forum enabled for that group?
You could probably hook into the get_header action, do your conditional check and if the person is a mentor, then show the page, otherwise show the registration page or whatever.
Modify the function listed in this thread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616
Hopefully it gives you a few pointers.
Travel Junkie – The first code was great on WP 3.0. Thank you!
@wordpresschina, it’s still working fine for me. I’m using a single WP not WPMU, dunno if that makes a deference or not.
You should check your server Error Log to see what is going wrong for you. If I get time a might make a plugin that handles everything… but I’m a bit busy at the moment – and there is a World Cup on ^ ^
I have two WordPress installs going on …
1. A standard WP install, with the Password plugin (to make private) for the news side
2. A WP install with BuddyPress on a subdomain for the “community side”
Is there any way to “pass” along the login information when they login to the initial WordPress side? I don’t want my members to have to login twice – once to see the news, and then again to login to the community.
Thoughts?
Ok, we have found the problem and fixed it. We were using the wp-cache plugin. First we disabled it, but nothing changed. Then we found it had left an objet-cache.php file at the root folder. We deleted it and TADA! In a second all our problems vanished…
@pcwriter hmm yeah I guess I could make a new status type… I know in a future release of buddypress though there is one more status type which is in between public and private like we need here… I’ll check it out on the trac…. that only problem is I’d like a quick solution with no core hacks so I can just get the plugin released and then if people want I could show them how to hack the core to do something like this…
@firetag
So, you’re looking for a “crossover” between private and public groups. Private so the activity doesn’t show in the stream (but it does show in the group) yet public so folks don’t need to be invited to join.
This might help: on lines 71 to 101 is the function/action for groups_setup_globals. On line 97 is the valid_status array (public, private, hidden) where I’m thinking you could add a new status like “category”. As that new status would not be “public”, activity shouldn’t show up in the main stream, and as it wouldn’t be “private” either, neither invitations nor membership requests would be needed.
What do you think…doable?
EDIT: I guess you would need a way to keep that option out of the preselects available to users at the group creation stage though. Hmmm…
We have a very small member base (160 users) and we all know each other in the real world. As such, “Friends” doesn’t do much for us. All it does is allow you to filter your stream and autocomplete names when composing a private message. Since we only have 160 users and we all know each other, if would be great if autocomplete worked for ALL members… not just your the people on your friend list. I know you can type the username and it will work… but then you have to remember or look up usernames. And there’s no feedback that you remembered and typed the name correctly. I’d like to fix that.
The autocomplete code starts at line 539 in /buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/ajax.php. On line 547 you see that a local $friends variable is declared and uses an existing function (friends_search_friends()) to populate this variable with an array of all your friends. It should be a simple matter of setting $friends to be an array of ALL users rather than just your friends, but I can’t figure it out. Does anyone have any ideas? I’m sure this would be useful for any site with a small user base.
