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@willmaginn
If you don’t like plugins then you will have to write code and place in bp-custom.php preferably which really isn’t much different than having a plugin installed because you will still have to use hooks just like a plugin does, or in your themes functions.php which really isn’t much different or you could edit templates which would be even more tedious. I suggest you reconsider your position on the plugins because it is the simplest method for a closed community. I developed two plugins myself that tackles this issue though they are premium plugins one is Private BP Pages and the other is Private Community For BP. I think there are other plugins on the repo that also provide a closed community but I haven’t tested any of them because my own plugins performs the way I need it too. Good luck!

Since this thread contains a good amount of discussion, I will humbly beg to share some point of views

“”At one time, WordPress Joomla Drupal and other such software defined the standards for blogging or cms – they were open in all aspects and no product of a private, closed, biggie company equaled their efficacy and reach. They lead and biggies followed. But in the last 5 or 7 (or ?10) years no such software has come up. Unfortunate but true. Its now a world where facebook and the like are ……. Will there be another WordPress or Drupal or Joomla? Time will tell. But probably no. Sad but true. NO!””

“Stallman was one of the first to grasp that, if commercial entities were going to own the methods and technologies that controlled computers, then computer users would inevitably become beholden to those entities. This has come to pass, and in spades. Most computer users have become dependent on proprietary code provided by companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google, the use of which comes with conditions we may not condone or even know about, and can’t control; we have forfeited the freedom to adapt such code according to our needs, preferences, and personal ethics.” http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty

Wishing you all the best @planetearthlings

Any ideas on what may have caused this ?

That question was answered here.

It’s the user who did it wrong, so guess there is no technical solution.

The “from” wordpress@mysite.com is a default address which redirect to site admin address (the one you indicate when you setup WP).

This can (and should be) changed, as its a common trick used by spammers. Read here how to do this.

If you have to invite users to join a group, this group i not public, but private or hidden.

So again, which plugins are you using ? And if you could provide an url it would be easier to answer/help you.

It’s unclear: do you have public or private groups ?
– Groups set for public viewing not showing up.
– There are groups on the site which are set for private viewing.

Privacy settings are different for these types of groups.

@danbp True indeed, but with my previous setup with BuddyPress 1.9.2 I was able to control the spam registrations since they were never activated (I used BuddyPress Pending Activations to manually activate new users) and therefore they could never log in. They were not seen in the activity stream either.

This is my setup: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/create-private-membership-site-with-buddypress/

I’ve now upgraded s2Member which had no effect, and also deactivated the BuddyPress Automatic Friends plugin which didn’t have any effect either. The new user shows up as pending in the Users screen for about 1 minute after registration, but is then automatically activated.

Hi!

I recently upgraded my site with a new theme (BuddyBoss Boss. theme) and am running WP 4.1.1 and upgraded from BuddyPress 1.9.2 to 2.2.1.

I have a setup where I redirect the activation e-mail to the site admin to be able to manually control new members and verify their information before activating them and letting them log in. This is a cruical function for my site since it’s a private network.

After the upgrade I noticed that some spam users were automatically activated and able to log in without my manual activation. The users are automatically activated, the same issue as @RussAdams is experiencing. I’ve tried deactivating a few plugins (BuddyPress Pending Activations, BuddyPress Auto Group Join) but this issue persists. In BuddyPress 1.9.2, everything was working as expected.

Browser sessions doesn’t seem to be the issue since clearly people on other computers have been able to create accounts which were automatically activated as well.

This is a very serious issue for my site since I no longer have the control over new users and spam users can log in after activating. Did you get this sorted out?

@saish_neugi the Plugin Private Buddypress works well also. It isn’t being updated anymore, but I’ve tested it and still works without errors.

try checking using an incognito or private window after adding the above line your site and browser may be loading a cached version of your site due to which you won be able to see the changes
Thanks

@martni You can get some ideas here:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/adding-a-single-group-activity-stream-to-bp-social-home-page
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-filter-custom-activity-stream-to-display-only-new-groups-new-topics-new-replies/

Another way may be, making the other groups private, if that suits you / your site at all.

Thanks

http://seventhqueen.com/support/forums/forum/kleo/kleo-general-questions

Hi @sjjenkins

This should not be very difficult. Some small change in the template file but since they have no downloadable version its difficult to say.
This may contain some clue –

Showing some profile fields in member’s profile header not working after update

Just curious, how does the Whats New box looks like when you use
buddypress-activity-privacy, buddypress-activity-plus and any Media plugin like rtmedia ?
Whats your site (if its not private) url ?

Thanks.

Hi @pieter

Try this

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

    $content = substr( $content , 0, 140 );

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

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

This will make the message 140 characters. Feel free to change the 140 to another number.

hi @rosyteddy,
guess the mytery sit here: http://localhost/wordpress/userA/

Multisite (subdomain or subdirectory) need that wordpress stays at the site root. At least for a default install.

SSite: hxxp://my_site.com
MS: hxxp//my_site.com

MS subdomain: hxxp//wouah.my_site.com
MS subdirectory: hxxp//my_site.com/wouah/

A local install (wamp, mamp or xamp) is mostly in a ‘www’ folder at your hard disk root C://
(recommended path) Refer to your software documentation for more details about installing Wamp/Mamp/Xamp – at least about localhost in URL. In the latest version (wamp 2.5), this is no more used. In my case, the local URL is http://my_site/wp-admin/….

C://www represent the private part of the site path. The equivalent of /var/your_account/htdocs/ on a production server.

The same path scenario goes localy
C://www/my_site (avoid confusion and don’t use WordPress as site name)
My_site folder contains all WP directories and files:

My_site/wp-admin
My_site/wp-content
My-site/wp-include
My_site/wp-config.php and so on…

At the end of the install, you got a htaccess file containing:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

The important things here are rewrite engine on and rewrite base /, where the slash means “start to manage site URL’s form this point”, which is /…/…/var/your_account/htdocs/<- from here !!!

Before installing BuddyPress, activate pretty permalinks to what you want, EXCEPT default. Save. I do this before, because WP likes also pretty permalinks, and so i don’t forget to do it after i finished with a BP install.

Install BP and setup (or at least control if they exist) the choosen component page(s).

If you do this, you won’t have 404 or other issues, no matter if you use MS or subdirectories or subdomain. WP alone will work, and BP too.

The most important advice if you want to work localy, is to setup correctly apache (mod_rewrite is not activated for ex.). And if you use it with windows, to double-check anything, including HOST file where you have to declare manually each of your local sites (since wamp 2.4 – don’t remember exactly)

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost

127.0.0.1       my_site
::1             my_site

127.0.0.1       my_other_site
::1             my_other_site

Hi,

leave groups & request membership use the same button, depending the context. See reference.

Try this if you use only private groups

function xyz() {
global $groups_template;
   if ( bp_is_active(group) )
      return '';
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_group_join_button', 'xyz' );

Reference: wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-groups\bp-groups-template.php:2747

Hi @whoaloic

What do you mean by “note”?

Messages can be either public or private. Private messages work kind of like chat, and can be seen only by the ‘thread’ participants. Public message are ‘front-end’. You can public message someone by prefixing their username with the @ symbol. Public messages are also known as mentions.

Regarding favourites, see this Trac ticket for how the feature will be improved over the next few versions.

Hope this information helps.

I am having the same issue. The regular WordPress search box will not display any content from my Groups page. I think it is hilarious that when I go to create a group, under settings the public and private options say that group content will show up in search results. I have tried relevanssi and that didn’t help.