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Thanks. I looked at Auto Group Join, and am considering it. Registration Groups hasn’t been updated in a long time, so I’m a bit leery of that. I’ve also tried bbPress Private Groups, but I’m finding forum accessibility to be oddly inconsistent.

At the moment, I’m looking at:
1. Just BuddyPress – create lots of overlapping single-purpose groups.
2. Just bbPress & Private Groups – forget about the social aspect and just use structured fora.
3. Social media – give up and use a Google Group, Google+ community, or even [gulp] a Facebook group.

Can I send the error log privately?

Sorted using the code from :https://buddypress.org/support/topic/private-message-friends-only/

One question will the messages still be stored in the database even if the message isnt sent? I dont want these spammers filling up my database with junk..

🙂

WordPress:

Version: 4.9.5
Language: en_US
Permalink Structure: /%postname%/
Active Theme: Tempera NoLink 0.6
Page On Front: Si Valetis, Valeo! (#62)
Page For Posts: Blog (#133)

— Web Server Configurations —

PHP Version: 7.0.30
MySQL Version: 5.6.34
Web Server Info: Apache

— PHP Configurations —

PHP Memory Limit: 256M
PHP Upload Max Size: 256M
PHP Post Max Size: 301M
PHP Upload Max Filesize: 256M
PHP Time Limit: 1000
PHP Max Input Vars: 1000
PHP Arg Separator: &
PHP Allow URL File Open: Yes

— WordPress Active Plugins —

Akismet Anti-Spam: 4.0.3
Caldera Forms: 1.6.1.1
Category Posts Widget: 4.8.5
Category Sticky Post: 2.10.1
Cryout Serious Theme Settings: 0.5.9
Custom Login Page Templates: 1.0
Custom Sidebars: 3.1.4
Disable Emojis: 1.7
Download Monitor: 4.0.8
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP (GADWP): 5.3.3
GTranslate: 2.8.40
Jetpack by WordPress.com: 6.1
Plugins Garbage Collector: 0.10.3
Shortcodes Ultimate: 5.0.3
Simple:Press: 5.7.5.2
Simple Link Directory – Pro: 4.8.0
Team Members PRO: 4.1.1
The Events Calendar: 4.6.15
TinyMCE Advanced: 4.6.7
Ultimate Member: 2.0.13
Ultimate Member – Followers: 2.0.1
Ultimate Member – Friends: 2.0.1
Ultimate Member – Google reCAPTCHA: 2.0
Ultimate Member – Instagram: 2.0.1
Ultimate Member – MailChimp: 2.0.1
Ultimate Member – Notices: 2.0.1
Ultimate Member – Online Users: 2.0
Ultimate Member – Private Messages: 2.0.2
Ultimate Member – Profile Completeness: 2.0.1
Ultimate Member – Real-time Notifications: 2.0.1
Ultimate Member – Social Activity: 2.0.1
Ultimate Member – Social Login: 2.0.1
Ultimate Member – Terms & Conditions: 2.0
Ultimate Member – User Reviews: 2.0.3
Ultimate Member – User Tags: 2.0
Ultimate Member – Verified Users: 2.0.1
UM New Members widget: 1.0.7
UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore: 2.14.8.1
VaultPress: 1.9.5
Wise Chat Pro: 1.9
WP-Optimize: 2.2.4
WP Responsive Recent Post Slider: 1.4.2
Yoast SEO Premium: 7.4.2

Just to let everybody know: I found the cause for my problem. I had to add the capability ‘view private pages’ to the role and now everything works as expected.

I’m not crazy about the iframe solution, but I do believe it can allow invite to private server on discord, which would be useful, but I’m not sure. I’m going to play with it in staging and post back here on results.

Hi Vapvarun, thanks for your response. However, it’s not just an auto installer glitch. I don’t think you know “free.fr” host. This host DOES requires the use of “index.php” in the permalinks structure, you just get 404 errors otherwise.

This a restriction imposed by this host provider. “Free.fr” is free but it imposes several restrictions in exchange. For example, out-going traffic, auto-updates, newsletters, private sites, and any rewrite rule in the “.htaccess” are all forbidden.

That’s why I was looking for a way to make buddypress working with “index.php” in the permalink structure. In the end, I gave up but it’s a shame cause buddypress is really a great plugin. I’d still be very interested if someone by any chance knows what I need to modify in buddypress to make it work for my particular case.

Hi Venutis! Thank you for the tip 🙂

But I found this code online created by a fellower named Brajesh Singh that worked very well. I just pasted it into my child theme’s functions.php

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// BuddyPress send private message button
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/**
 * Get a link to send PM to the given User.
 *
 * @param int $user_id user id.
 *
 * @return string
 */
function buddydev_get_send_private_message_to_user_url( $user_id ) {
    return wp_nonce_url( bp_loggedin_user_domain() . bp_get_messages_slug() . '/compose/?r=' . bp_core_get_username( $user_id ) );
}

/**
 * Shortcode [bp-pm-button username=optional_some_user_name]
 *
 * @param array $atts shortcode attributes.
 * @param string $content content.
 *
 * @return string
 */
function buddydev_private_message_button_shortcode( $atts, $content = '' ) {
    // User is not logged in.
    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
        return '';
    }
 
    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
        'user_id'   => '',
        'username'  => '',
        'label'     => 'Send Private Message',
    ), $atts );
 
    $user_id = absint( $atts['user_id'] );
    $user_login = $atts['username'];
 
    // if the username is given, override the user id.
    if ( $user_login ) {
        $user = get_user_by( 'login', $user_login );
        if ( ! $user ) {
            return '';
        }
        $user_id = $user->ID;
    }
 
    if ( ! $user_id ) {
        if ( ! in_the_loop() ) {
            return '';
        }
 
        $user_id = get_the_author_meta('ID' );
    }
    // do not show the PM button for the user, if it is aimed at them.
    if ( bp_loggedin_user_id() === $user_id ) {
        return '';
    }
 
    // if we are here, generate the button.
    $button = sprintf('<a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>', buddydev_get_send_private_message_to_user_url( $user_id ), $atts['label'] );
 
    return $button . $content;
}
 
add_shortcode( 'bp-pm-button', 'buddydev_private_message_button_shortcode' );