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function bp_keep_user_private( $user_login, $user ) {

	global $wpdb;

	if( 'username' === $user->user_login ) {

		$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 2 WHERE ID = %d", $user->ID ) );
	}

}
add_action( 'wp_login', 'bp_keep_user_private', 10, 2 );

you can try something like this that will set that account to inactive on every login. change username to the real username

If your site is private then you don’t need a verification procedure. But my point was you should look at the verification procedure because the functionality is very close to what you’re trying to achieve.

Yes ! You need to use template overload, then you can remove that part from the template.
While creating a new group:
See bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/create.php
While modifying a group:
bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/single/admin.php

Caution: if you do this, you can only use public or private groups. Hidden groups are “invite users” only.

@ajaysingh-1
man – there is post_comment, post_update – and a bunch of others on the hookr io page
http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=a

not sure what you mean post button comment section..
hmm.. section on the site-wide activity page?
via private message emails / replies?

hmm.. group replies?

I don’t know anything about the functions and code actually – but hopefully the hookr info will help ya, or this comment will help you detail what exactly you are looking for – so if someone does know about this code they will know more about what you mean..

One more piece of info, in case this helps somebody help me.

I also have entered a user called “Alter Ego”. That user, it turns out, can only be private messaged at “alter-ego”. (To clarify: “Prof L” gets private messages using “admin”: the @ symbol appears to be working normally, for ‘mentions’)

So is this a problem with username formatting? Have I accidentally introduced this problem with these usernames?

Sadly, I’m not here with an answer, but another manifestation of this same problem.

Am running WordPress with bbpress and BuddyPress, Twentyfourteen theme, everything updated except I’ve not yet gone to BuddyPress 2.3.3.

My login is “Prof L”; so is my user name. To the best of my knowledge I’ve set “admin” nowhere in BuddyPress……but to private message me, “@admin” is required!

Update: OK, I see that in email settings, one of the options reads as follows:

A member mentions you in an update using “@admin”

So somehow that has been set to my “handle” (is that the right BP term?) But again, I never to my knowledge entered “admin”, nor does it display anywhere on the front end of the site.

I will try the plugin mentioned up thread, and report back–but wanted to testify that this problem is real and ongoing….

@iseestarz

Activity wall – Yes – in core.
all members chat – private user to user email like messages in core. Chat rooms with plugins like “quick chat” – so yes
sleek custom profiles for members, -hard to tell what is “sleek” – custom? for each member? There are a couple of plugins that played with this – not sure how they work, if they’ve been updated lately.. modding how all profiles look to make them “sleeker” than default 2015 – theme – possible..

a paid membership option – that would be a plugin.. there are several that get into that.. s2member, paid memberships pro, ultimate member maybe? Some options from wpmudev as well I think.

A way to let paid members make their own post/articles on the homepage – hmmm.. maybe prevent non paid members from even creating a blog.. or you mean any activity posts on home page – I think these things are possible.. BP recently added “user levels” but I have not see much actually use that.. but extending this should be easy to some degree..

However if your focus is on paid members things, and you will need support to put all this together and keep it running (you are not a php coder with lots of time to read codex and test things) – then developing around BP is likely to get expensive, and you might be better off forgetting bp exists and looking at some of the more premium systems others have put together around wordpress (a few wpmudev plugins combined achieve what you describe without needing BP) – and there are others..

Of course you don’t have to look for such a system revolving around wordpress either – there are more mature social network options that may save you time and sanity – things like phpfox, boonex dolphin, oxwall..

random thoughts from a bp user.. I’m not a dev and have not tested all the things out there that get into paid members things and restrictions.. if you search the forums here there have been a few comments from others pointing to some other similar plugin options – and some people have pointed out troubles with some of those on the market.

is there an other setting ? No other setting in BP.

Deactivate the child and use original Fifteen while testing.

– no error message ? No JS error in console (browser tool) ?

A similar topic here, with other advice
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/private-message-button-only-appears-sometimes/

Sorry to ask this, but are Friend Connections and Private messaging enabled in BP settings ?

What happend when you deactivate all plugins ?

I have created a plugin specifically for this.

BP Private Avatars

Let me know what you think.

For all private social network, but login and register page is available to access.

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'redirect_to_login_page_for_premium_members' );
function redirect_to_login_page_for_premium_members() {
  if( (!is_page_template("loginpage.php")) && (!is_user_logged_in()) && (!is_page("Register") )) {
      $page = get_page_by_title( 'Login' );
      wp_redirect(get_permalink($page->ID));
      exit();
  }
}

Restrict buddypress components just for logged-in users:
*UNTESTED

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'redirect_to_login_page_for_premium_members' );
function redirect_to_login_page_for_premium_members() {
  if( (is_buddypress()) && (!is_user_logged_in()) ) {
      $page = get_page_by_title( 'Login' );
      wp_redirect(get_permalink($page->ID));
      exit();
  }
}

You could also use this plugin. Exclude the URLs you want to be accessible to all. Everything else will be hidden, including from SERPS.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-private-site/

You will need to go through all of the BuddyPress communication channels available:

1. Private messaging
2. Public messaging

etc

Then when a user attempts to send a message to a user they have not been assigned to, disallow it to happen via one of the hooks BuddyPress makes available.

With reference to assigning a user to a user, this could be achieved via user meta.

@kookidooki
LOL –

There’s no other party involved when using Skype.

I suppose you might also think when you store your documents in one-drive or dropbox that you are the only person who accesses those also. Everything that is typed or said using skype is monitored and recorded for later use by many people, and automatically scanned for certain information of interest to various parties. If your business is selling stationary I guess that may never matter.

If your discussions could be used as leverage in any way by people with different interests, then I would consider a basic encrypted chat service you control. Even using the free firefox “hello” videochat would be better privacy than skype.

I also think you should point out to others in your sites privacy policy that you are sharing their conversations with multiple organizations and agencies when using these third party services out of your control.

Anyone using their site for legal issues, healthcare info, or other private matters should definitive read the policies of any third party messaging services before using them. – Just my humble opinion – I’m not a lawyer or anything.

You could of said skype was private way back in the day before microsoft bought it and changed everything.

as far as using skype for your site, I think that is a short sighted choice – no privacy, no control, dependent upon third parties… I went down that road once, and not getting into that dependency again.

I’m running a business website where face-2-face conversation is important. Skype works fine for me and about the privacy: you decide (and no one else) who you want to join your private or group conversation. There’s no other party involved when using Skype.

BuddyPress use bbPress when you allow group forums.
If the group is private, the attached forum is also hidden ton non members of that group. Same for public or private groups.

You don’t have to change the group forum setting in the forum list.
The right steps
Create a group A
A is set to private
Allow a forum for A
—— The wrong step ——–
Going to dashboard forum admin, and set forum A to private. If you do this nobody will see it except site admin.

Groups

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hide-buddypress-and-bbpress-items-from-guests/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-private-group-is-not-visible-in-bbpress/

I’m not sure but perhaps it’s related to the private messaging component? I know those URLs look like /members/username/messages/etc..

@danbp I needed your answer 1 year 6 months ago 🙂

Hi @recagenda,

you can’t enable this, because it doesn’t exist. I could be wrong, but so far i know, private conversation are not paginable.

Reference file is bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\messages\single.php

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/pagination-private-message-thread/ – @henrywright