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Yes, my BP brothers, there’s a plugin called BP Simple Private and I think it will solve your problems, without having to work with robots.txt

Prior to using BP Simple Private, my site’s member pages were way too accessible.. You could type http://mysite.com/members <- and you’d see the whole members directory.

Prior to using BP Simple Private, you could type http://mysite.com/members/aaronthomas1979, and you’d jump straight to my profile.

With this plugin, people (or search engine bots,) will be redirected to a page of your choosing, and the member pages will not be displayed.

If you already have the issue of member pages being displayed in search results, there’s nothing you can do to immediately fix that, but make the change (get the plugin) and wait for those bots to crawl your site again, but next time, they won’t find those pages.

It works for me..

I asked a bit too soon… A little more searching and I found your explanation here. Setting the default component seems to have done the trick. Thanks for the code samples!

Sorry, i don’t act privately on user’s site.

If you’re unable to solve your issue, hire somebody who can help you on BP Job Board.

Your snippet use some deprecated code. (bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) since 1.8)

Here a similar one who let you make BP almost private…

function bpfr_guest_redirect() {
global $bp;
// enter conditional here
   if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() ||  bp_is_members_component() || is_bbpress() ) {
	
// not logged in user - user will be redirect to any link to want
   if( !is_user_logged_in() ) { 
      //wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') ); //back to homepage    			
      //wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/intranet' ); // back to whatever page 
      wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/register' ); // back to register page	
      } 
   }
}
add_filter( 'get_header', 'bpfr_guest_redirect', 1 );

There’s a few different ways you could go about this, there’s a few privacy plugins that will hide different aspect of the site from public view. One is BP Registration Options, this installs new member moderation (so you can choose who to allow on you site) and BuddyPress privacy, where the BuddyPress pages are all private, but the WordPress pages and posts are still public.

If that’s not private enough for you then there’s BP Simple Private which allows you to hide all aspects of your site apart from the homepage.

You could have normal users simply subscribe to a mailing list, there no need to have them as site members, then you could run the BuddyPress install as private, so that one logged in members see those pages.

Hem… you’re free to use BuddyPress to your needs, but i guess there is a moment where you reach the software limit.
If you publish private activities in the public activity stream, what do you expect ? To compromise privacy or the way the software works ?
As with 99,9% of software, you have to answer by Yes or No to each option you find. For groups, you have 3 options: 1 OR 2 OR 3 and not a bit of each, depending the current wind speed ! It’s private or it’s public, but not Y and N.

So far i know, hidden group members see the hidden group activities when they are on their group activity page. A group is hidden means that “public” can’t see/access to it, so you can’t see those activities on the site activity page.

please use forum’s search before asking !
https://buddypress.org/support/search/private+message+button/

For example:

Disable or Hide Private Message Button

I had the same issue, and since I couldn’t find a solution, I had to make one myself. I thought I’d share.

Add the following to your functions file

function fix_private_message_login() {
    Global $bp;
    if (isset($bp->canonical_stack['component']) && $bp->canonical_stack['component'] == 'messages' && !is_user_logged_in()) {
        header('Location: ' . get_site_url() . '/wp-login.php?redirect_to=' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
        die();
    }
}
add_action('bp_do_404', 'fix_private_message_login');

If you’re admin, you will most likely be redirected to the admin panel after login (instead of the message), however for all other users, it will redirect you to the message.

Hi @excel1,

such URL is odd and shouldn’t appear on a correctly install setup:
example.com/index.php/beispielbeitrag/

In brief, your install WP at the site root which is: exemple.com
BP is a wp plugin and by the way, will also be at the root.

And as wp is also a blog, that blog is also at example.com (on a page defined in wp’s Read settings).

This means that you can create a page for the blog and name it “besipielbeitrag” and asign this page to posts in WP settings. And make it private or whatever.

BP members or groups will be at exemple.com/members/ or example.com/groups/ and the users at example.com/members/USERNAME/

index.php is one of the files in a theme, but has nothing to do with BP pages or a dedicated blog page.

Also, if emxampel.com and example.com are 2 URL for the same site, or if you installed wp in emxampel.com and BP in example.com, BP won’t work.

I would recomend you to read attentively the install guide from the begin.