BuddyPress.org

Hi,

You can create a private BuddyPress network using this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/lh-private-buddypress/

Only logged-in members will be able to access the profiles, directories and all.

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Included in BP:
Registration
Creating and managing profiles
Create groups
Create group overview
Create private groups

There are templates – you will need to customize them by hand and be a decent developer to add custom code.

Hi,

Please try these steps:

1. go to forums > all forums
2. edit the forum of your choice
3. change the visibility to private.

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Duplicate of https://buddypress.org/support/topic/private-message-button-not-working-right/

Closing to avoid forking the discussion.

I’m having perhaps a related issue with messages. When I switch to the old theme the messages work fine. Here is my original post:

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Greetings!

I just installed BP version 3.1.0 with WooCommerce StoreFront theme on WP 4.9.8 hosted on WPEngine.

When I go to a users profile and click private message, it takes me to the messages tab, but the compose fields do not show. The URL appears to have the proper query string with the users name. Example: compose?r=julesyoga

Could caching be preventing the page from loading perhaps?

Do you know any reason why the page isn’t loading in compose mode and the name isn’t being populated.

site: https://access.julesmitchell.com/
wp version: 4.9.8

Thanks so much!

@billysgtr @venutius this is really cool news as i need the exact same feature (only authors can send private messages on buddypress) …..how do i go about getting the latest version? is it an official plugin now?

Experiencing the same issue as well.

@vapvarun, possible to share the details of my site with you in private?

Using ‘good question’ or similar plugin,
‘graphic captcha’
‘ip geo block’
unfortunately spamshield had some meltdown with the wp.org people so it’s out, but similar functionality for logins and such is in ‘shield’

you’ll never stop the manual spammers, if you could stop them, you would be stopping legit users..

on my multi-site I use a plugin that makes all new blogs/aka sites that are created automatically set as ‘search engines do not index’ in settings.. this helps too..

the bp plugin that limits the amount of private messages that can be sent is nice (BuddyPress Private Message Rate Limiter),

one one install I disallow user’s group creation ability – and ask them to send me a note about any new groups that should be made.

also enjoy “register ips” – so I can ban really bad cidrs..

Ray,
While this is a valid workaround, which we have tried. But its confusing for the end user and they sometimes fumble with the alias format and lose out account access, creates support overhead etc.

The need described by kama is similar to facebook pages or YouTube channels – they are a social network with members having profiles but also multiple members can manage a page or a YouTube channel.
Typical use cases for VIP members who May want their assistants to operate and update certain sections of their accounts without giving away the credentials of their account. The VIP user could allow read/write permissions to certain sections of the profile. For e.g. my assistant can edit my profile, but not read my private message’s or change my subscription type

@optimized Private messaging is available at the individual level, you can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/mass-messaging-in-buddypress/ to send a message to all group members or extend the same

This is not working on browser but works on private ones

The code above works to restrict private messages to to only friends, but the message the user gets if they try to message someone who is not a friend is:

“The message was not sent. Please try again later.”

Is there anyway to change this message to something like:

“Sorry, you can only message connections within your network”

Did you ever find a solution to your first requirement?

– When a new user sign up via GF > create a private group(business) exclusively assigned to this new user (which will be a group admin)?

@onions2578 you can keep a private group and invite your friends only to join your group.
For a group-specific, you can create custom code which adds those members to a specific group when they will be added to your friend list, but it can not be a general scope.

Hi Glenn,

(a) There are a number of plugins that allow you to customise the WordPress Login page. https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-login/

(b) No I don’t think so, this is indicating that Incognito is redirecting login.php to another page.

(c) There’s a number of plugins that will allow you to put the login form into a widget for example, you could use one of these to put the login form on any page you like. https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/login-widget/

2. Maybe you could try: https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-after-login/

3. There’s a number of BP privacy plugins, they tend to work in different ways so it’s really a case of checking out a few to see if they deliver what you need. I personally tend to use a modified version of BP Members Only. I modified it so that posts are not private.