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just change the Group-settings from “Public Group” to “Private Group”.

I would be already happy if the already existing Private-Groups would work properly……

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2072

Actually thanks for the post. This is a something I have been doing (trying to do) since wpmu 1.0. I use WPMU / Buddypress with young (elementary school students 6-12 years old) so simplicity is a must. The New Blog Options plugin (if it works as it says it will) would make make perfect customization possible. Here are a list of WPMU plugins that I use or have used that might help. I am in the process of retrying everything to achieve exactly what you are trying to do. Let everyone on the forums know how your testing goes. Hope this isn’t too long. I added links to save time since there are sometimes plugins with similar names).

New Blog Options – this one is fairly new (still beta), and I haven’t tried it extensively yet, but it will allow you to clone on blog setup with it’s plugin options etc. to all new blogs.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/default-blog-options/

Limit Blogs per User – if you don’t want them making more than one blog (set to 2, one is the main buddypress blog and 2 is their own blog)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-blogs-per-user/

WPMU New Blog Defaults – this will allow you to restrict menus, change default links, etc under the Options in the Site Admin menu

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

Members – this one takes over where the old Role-manager plugin left off. Haven’t had time to check it out yet, but if you could use this with New Blog Options it would allow you to very finally tune what your users could do and see.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

Adminimize – again I haven’t played with this for a while, but if you could use it with New Blog Options, then you could simplify the look of the menus for your users too.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/

Default User Role – will set the user role when a new blog is created

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-default-user-role/

Plugin Manager – does what it says, allows you to manage which plugins users can set, which ones are automatically turned on, and which regular users cannot see

http://wpmudev.org/project/wpmu-plugin-manager

download link is: http://wpmudev.org/download/946613807_mp-plugin-manager.php

Of course with young people you might want to consider a privacy plugin like:

More Privacy Options – this doesn’t work with the feed on Buddypress, but if you search the forums it can be made to work or you can use the following plugin for feed privacy (Buddypress privacy should be coming soon)

http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options/

download link is: http://wpmudev.org/download/999830698_ds_private_blog.php

BP MPO Activity Filter – This plugin, BP MPO Activity Filter, does just what the name suggests: it filters BuddyPress activity feeds. Used with More Privacy Options.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-mpo-activity-filter/

Hi Michael,

which content you are talking about which is missing ? Activity-content or Forum-content ?

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2072

Some of you guys must check your Private Messages …

I appreciate the suggestion , but no possible solutions yet from the developers

Update to BP 1.2. You aren’t going to get much support for 1.1.3 as so much has changed.

@tyler ~ I’ve now built two similar ‘medical related’ sites where the privacy was of utmost concern and I used my code from above beautifully. You could drop the plugin and the secondary install and just use that for any pages you want to keep private from both unregistered users and spiders/robots.

you are right, this seems to be a bug:

1)

– I have created a Private-Group at testbp.org

when I am logged-in, then I am going to the “Group-Forums-Directory”, it is currently not possible to select this “Private-Group” from the drop-down-box in order to make a post into the Forum of this “Private-Group”.

It is currently only possible to make a Forum-post into this “Private-Group” by going to the “Group-Tab”, then search for that Group and make the post directly within the Group-Forum. But it is not possible to make a Forum-post from the “Group-Forums-Directory”.

2)

also when posting a Forum-post into a “Private-Group”, my own post is actually not visible for myself within the Tab “My Topics” at the “Group-Forums-Directory”.

Well, I would actually want to see MY OWN post, even if it is in a “Private-Group”.

It is also not possible for myself to see MY OWN Forum-post within the Tab “All Topics” at the “Group-Forums-Directory”.

3)

Note: this issue is showing when being logged-in.

4)

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2072

nice analysis ~ I’m also duplicating those errors with the core_redirect pointed to wp-login.php I’d bet Jeff has a good handle on this and I sent a request to help him test the upcoming release. I don’t have a copy of his old release to adapt or modify (if anyone could point me to, or send me the old copy, that might help).. but the hack i put up previously has worked like a charm for me making some pages private while leaving others public without having to expand this into a full on plugin with user options. I simply call that custom header for any pages I want to keep private.

<?php if(!is_user_logged_in()){

nocache_headers();

header("HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily");

header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-signup.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));

header("Status: 302 Moved Temporarily");

exit();

} ?>

this quick hack (in the top of header.php) will only registered and logged in users can view. As for using it with version 1.2 default theme ~ I would suggest making a custom header for any of the buddypress elements you want to keep private and keep the rest public. At least until privacy functions are available as a plugin or in core.

@Andy

sorry if my following questions are off-topic:

when I do create a “Private Group” on Group-creation:

– are the members-data who have joined this “Private-Group” visible to search-engines like Google ?

– are the user-images (avatar-images) and user-Profile-Fields of “Private-Group-Members” visible to search-engines ?

– is the user-activity (e.g. Permalink-comments) within a “Private Group” being exploited to search-engines or is it hidden from search-engines ?

– are all data from “Private-Groups” are actually hidden from other members within an installation ?

So if “Private Groups” would be hidden from search-engines, this would be perfect “Privacy” – just need to setup “Private-Groups” only, instead of “Public-Groups” ?

Many thanks.