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I know the plugin doesn’t address my issue but keeps BuddyPress for members only and hide it from non-logged in users. Privacy is very important to our members. I will upload the members that are truly members from a csv file from a list that is provided for me and give the Contributor Role. What I meant by subscriber is the “Subscriber” Role (vs Contributor, Author, Editor, Administrator).
I’m sorry I haven’t expressed myself well and now off topic. I was just trying to provide a solution for making pages private.

@shanebp

If you’re referring to the Visibility checkbox feature – Private means only viewable by admins and editors.

OOOOK. thanks for the hint….I admit I haven’t yet looked into the manual, as said I am a newcomer -that is I first tried to make sense of what I saw.

In my application sofar all members are editors (and currently planned to be editors), so the private check in the visibility box on pages makes those pages private for “members”. And since if I understood correctly the BP member functions (activity component etc.) are “instanced” by filling the member page it seems it would in principle be enough to set this page to private….if the BP code would have found the page, which it didnt therefore the above hack.
But for the future eventually we might want to include non-editing members as well so thanks this is certainly important to know.

@fscbmwcca
I haven’t tried the plugin, as said it seems as if it doesn’t go together that straightforward with the blog. By your description it sounds almost as if it’s not secluding the whole subadress, (like …/member/wildcart) but only specific adresses then this would
not go together with the blog at all. What are subscribers?
Can you set all your members to be editors? Then maybe the above solution I sofar use might help.

With the WordPress 4.4/BuddyPress 2.4.3/bbPress 2.5.8, if you set any of the BuddyPress pages set to private you get the following error “The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activity Streams. Repair”

True – If you set Visibility to Private!
Not true if you set the ‘Public or Private’ checkbox provided by the BP Simple Private.

I want people to be able to register as Subscribers but Subscribers should not see any of the BuddyPress/bbPress stuff, only the Contributors and above should be part of the BuddyPress/bbPress community.

So you want to limit access to BP content based on a user’s role.
That is a different issue from the original poster’s issue.
You should create a new topic.
The BP Simple Private plugin discussed above is not applicable to your issue.

With the WordPress 4.4/BuddyPress 2.4.3/bbPress 2.5.8, if you set any of the BuddyPress pages set to private you get the following error “The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activity Streams. Repair”

I tried the https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-members-only/ and that didn’t seem to do what I wanted. I want people to be able to register as Subscribers but Subscribers should not see any of the BuddyPress/bbPress stuff, only the Contributors and above should be part of the BuddyPress/bbPress community. So I need to be able to exclude Subscribers from BuddyPress/bbPress. I have looked and there is some code out there that seems pretty old so I don’t know if it would work and I am not so great with php so I am a little hesitant. I am also new to BuddyPress so I’m not sure of all the ins and outs.

I tested the plugin and it’s working, in the settings there are two areas [edited – please do not copy & paste such data ]
I hope I am being clear.

…is a bit irritating, finally that feature exists already in a standard BP wordpress version.

If you’re referring to the Visibility checkbox feature – Private means only viewable by admins and editors.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/

@fscbmwcca

thanks for the comment. If I understand correctly then the option:
allows an admin to select which Post types and BuddyPress Components are private
seems to indicate that things like the activity component or the member community component
could be set private.
Did you test the plugin?

The sentence:
provides a Private checkbox in the upper right corner of every page, post, and custom post type selected in Settings

is a bit irritating, finally that feature exists already in a standard BP wordpress version.
That is at least in my BP wordpress version you can already mark
pages as private (i.e. non accessible to non-logged-in members),
i.e. there is already a checkbox. And if there wouldn’t be the bug then
setting the member page and activity to private would have set “the component” to
private, if I understood correctly.
Is the plugin checkbox another checkbox?

There is a plugin which, by its description, seems to set everything private:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-members-only/
and which lets you specify which subadresses should be open.
But in my case this is not so helpful because
I want the blog to be public and the blog is not behind a /blog/ adress
but behind the year /2015/… etc.
so I would need to set each year adress open, which seems OK but not really
straightforward.

Did you flush all caches?
Before and after making any changes via the BP Simple Private plugin?
If you want to discuss further, please contact me via the info in my profile on this site.

By ‘private’, you mean only visible to logged-in users?

If so, this may solve your issue:

http://www.philopress.com/products/bp-simple-private/

or

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-simple-private/

I installed BP Simple Private it seems to let you mark pages as private and if not logged in it redirects the page. I am only testing now and seems to be working. What I ultimately want to do is exclude “Subscribers” from BuddyPress and bbPress. Haven’t found how to do that yet.

Hello Brajesh Singh and Engine44

I am a newcomer to buddypress and I think I had similar problems as Engine44.
Frankly I could imagine that there are more people who have this
problem but eventually don’t even realize it as a problem.
In particular I can’t imagine that all that bp networks which
are used by schools want to have kids discuss in public. So it might
be a severe problem. But as said I am a newcomer so I might easily be
wrong.

The following concerns mostly the member and activity pages (I hope they are called
this way, this is a direct translation from german), which are either set
public -or if set private can’t be found anymore (which seems to kill more or less all major bp functions, like you can’t see profile etc.) I haven’t looked into groups yet.

I asked a person for help who is pretty proficient in solving general programming
problems but who is not a programmer and in particular not a PHP programmer. So eat with
utmost caution.

He came up with the following hack:
The activity and member pages need to be public in order to assign them
on the bp page. (I think this is the default upon installation)
Then set the pages to private.

go to buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php
and then in function bp_core_get_directory_pages() {…

change

$page_names = $wpdb->get_results( „SELECT ID, post_name, post_parent, post_title FROM {$posts_table_name} WHERE ID IN ({$page_ids_sql}) AND post_statues = ‘publish’ ” );

into

// temporary hack
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
$page_names = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT ID, post_name, post_parent, post_title FROM {$posts_table_name} WHERE ID IN ({$page_ids_sql}) ” );
} else {
$page_names = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT ID, post_name, post_parent, post_title FROM {$posts_table_name} WHERE ID IN ({$page_ids_sql}) AND post_statues = ‘publish’ ” );
}
// was:
// $page_names = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT ID, post_name, post_parent, post_title FROM {$posts_table_name} WHERE ID IN ({$page_ids_sql}) AND post_statues = ‘publish’ ” );
// /temporary hack

If you are taking this topic to a private channel, then this topic will be closed. Please remember that public forums are intended for open topics where the help may benefit others, also the referenced issue is a third party plugin, not BuddyPress the correct avenue of help would be the plugins WP support forum normally.

BP Simple Private is not that granular – it makes all Profile pages either public or private.
And, more importantly, it only affects users who are not logged in.

BP Simple Private might be helpful?

For handling strictly non-logged-in users, this free plugin is now available here:
BP Simple Private

And it will be in the WP Plugin Repo in a day or two.

A premium version of the plugin is available here:
BP Simple Private Pro

@garprogram – This fatal error is due to some changes we made in BP v2.4.0 to give users proper feedback messages when a private message fails to send.

It looks like we might have to add some additional hooks so plugin devs can set the error message.

In the meantime, here are two things I would recommend:

1. Use the 'bp_messages_recipients' filter instead of using the 'messages_message_before_save' action:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.4.0/src/bp-messages/bp-messages-actions.php?marks=77-84#L77

2. As Henry mentioned, if you have to unset one recipient, you should unset all of the recipients to avoid the message from sending. The default error message will probably not suit your needs, so you might have to filter the error message with the 'gettext' filter temporarily until we introduce better error handling for plugin developers.

After a particular member has reached the 1 private group limit, you’d probably want to stop the member:

• requesting to join a new private group
• from being invited to join a private group
• from creating a new private group

You mention the member can belong to multiple public groups so your checks should be specific for private groups (also note there is a hidden group type).

With reference to what hook to use, you’d probably need to use 3 different hooks depending on the actions mentioned above. Take a look through bp-groups/bp-groups-functions.php to start with to see what’s available.

Hey @alessandrat

Welcome to the BuddyPress forum!

1. Have two separate front ends for different user types (with differently configured profiles), appearances, and accesses.

Yes. This can be done with either a plugin (try searching the Plugin Directory) or coded through the Member Types feature introduced in version 2.2.

2. Have a place where shortcode could be put in so that users can take a questionnaire containing likert questions on their profile and/or while creating their profile.

Either a post, page or perhaps even an activity update all spring to mind as possible places to add it.

3. One but not both kinds of users can create their own group (public, semiprivate or private) or forum and browse/ join existing ones

The ability for all members to create new groups comes as standard.

4. One kind of user but not the other needs to be able to set up ways for the other type of user to purchase products (I assume I can use another plugin but will need a place to put the shortcode)

This will need to be either custom coded, or you may find a plugin with the functionality you need.

Hope this info helps!

$ud is a WP_User object of the person who is receiving the message. So:

function filter_private_message_email_body( $email_content, $sender_name, $subject, $content, $message_link, $settings_link, $ud ) {

    $content = wp_trim_words( $content, 15 );

    $email_content = sprintf( __(
'Dear %1$s,
%2$s sent you a new message:
Subject: %3$s
"%4$s"
To view and read your messages please log in and visit: %5$s
---------------------
', 'buddypress' ), $sender_name, $subject, $content, $message_link, $ud->user_login );

    return $email_content;
}
add_filter( 'messages_notification_new_message_message', 'filter_private_message_email_body', 10, 7 );

@niranjanchouhan – given that sweetdate is a premium theme, you will need to contact those theme developers for support with issues like that.

In 99% of cases around here (at buddypress dot org) you will find no help with premium themes and plugins. There are many reasons for that. People posting questions about premium accounts and premium themes just waste space here and get people kind of.. not happy.

I have been looking at some options to restrict private messaging to certain groups of users, and there was a recent form post here about limited certain groups of users to a certain amount of private messaging. Which I think are great topics.. however the only options I have seen with details on doing that are premium / paid options.

If you find a free plugin or code that gets into these kinds of restrictions I’d love to see that conversation here at the BP forums.. however if you only have experience with that one theme, then I’ll pass. I’m looking for something like that that will work with multiple themes.