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theres already a plugin who does that, ,you can use the plugin or check the source and adapt to your needs.

Was this ever solved? I am trying to accomplish the same thing – make some profile fields private. Thanks!

I don’t know if you’ve found a treatment, for this, but I’d suggest a plugin named HashCash from Donncha:

http://wpmu.org/wp-hashcash-for-wpmu/

only problem with removing the link:

<?php echo bp_get_root_domain() . '/' . BP_GROUPS_SLUG . '/create/' ?> someone could still access the url directly to start the process.

I went ahead and created a plugin (waiting on repo request on wordpress.org) to disable the steps and show a ‘new groups creation is closed’ message. Also added in a midlevel-cap to allow another set of users the ability to create private/hidden + w/forums. I may expand this to restrict other steps in the group creation process (as other plugins using the group extension api may add in their own step)

Basically the plugin removes the $bp->groups->group_creation_steps – adds in a custom position 0 step to display a closed page.

actually you can create a login page in 1.2.1 and have your site private….. once they pass credentials, they will be allowed inside.

That code snippet probably applied to an older version of BP.

Cool! Glad it worked for you, Jfcarter.

Make sure to green light the thread!

@intimez

is_site_admin() is the function but will probably be deprecated soon when WP 3.0 comes out.

Try this out:

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_my_profile() && function_exists( 'bp_send_private_message_link' ) && ( my_bp_is_friend() || is_site_admin() ) ) : ?>

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re: direct url to private message… you’ll have to modify the /bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/messages/compose.php file in your child theme to do a check for the username and if the logged-in user is friends with that username.

If the username is friends with the logged-in user, show the form to complete the message; if not a friend, don’t show the form.

There is a function that checks if a user is a site admin (can’t remember the name now but if you can’t find it let me know). you can use it to exclude the admin this allowing him to do send the message.

Thanks,

Shai

@r-a-y

I did what you mentioned but the code in bp-custom.php is now showing up at the top of the page visible to all. Maybe I missed something else?

edit: ooops, my mistake. It’s working now but I can PM by going direct URL.

edit2: how to enable so admin can still PM w/o being friends?

Try this out in /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

function my_bp_is_friend() {

global $bp;



if (friends_check_friendship($bp->loggedin_user->id,$bp->displayed_user->id) )

return true;



return false;

}

Then copy /bp-default/members/single/member-header.php to your child theme.

Next, edit:

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_my_profile() && function_exists( 'bp_send_private_message_link' ) ) : ?>

to:

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_my_profile() && my_bp_is_friend() && function_exists( 'bp_send_private_message_link' ) ) : ?>

check out this function in bp-friends.php

function friends_check_friendship_status( $user_id, $possible_friend_id ) {

that will return a string depending on the friend status

Bump.

Anyone made any progress with this?