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Imho, it is a debatable issue. Is the software/program designed such as to allow the admin to read PM only if there is a complaint ? Is it explicit in the terms and conditions that admin can read PM in which case some users may not like to register?

An user should have initial ways of blocking another harassing users like ello.co does rather than admin jumping into read PMs. In some countries it may be illegal or serious breach of privacy issues. Then there are much “grey” areas as to what is “drama” or what is a “legit” complaint.

Also see this and this.

@vitamincee
As @henrywright mentioned that is by design. Otherwise how would you be able to solve issues between users as an admin if one of your users complains that another user is sending harassing private messages. If you was locked out of viewing the private messages as an admin then you really couldn’t determine if its a legit complaint or someone just causing drama.

Hi @vitamincee

As an admin, you have access to your member’s private messages. That’s by design. Why would you want to restrict access to anything for an admin account?

@aymanomar85
@mentions works for me using the latest WP/BP, twenty-fifteen theme, Private Community For BP plugin, and BuddyPress Identicons plugin. Very basic setup for myself so you will need to provide more info on your setup so others can help. 🙂

I seem to believe that groups are only usable by its members and therefor also any group forum.

Public only means that the group will be listed and viewed by the public, only mebers of those groups can actually post on their forums.

Better make a regular forum with that name where all can post, and have a sticky post for people to join the actual group to start topics in their “private but publi” forum.

At least that is what I think, but I might be wrong.

Hi @matthias70

Private messages can be sent to multiple recipients. The field you mention is for entering more usernames to send the message to.

hi @abhimanyubind,

i’m not developer, but i think th e answer is yes.

For example, to allow admin to receive a copy of messages sent by users

function arc_wp_mail_filter( $args ) {
	
        $args['headers'] = 'Bcc: <admin@yoursite.com>'; 

	$new_wp_mail = array(
		'to'          => $args['to'],
		'subject'     => $args['subject'],
		'message'     => $args['message'],
		'headers'     => $args['headers'],
		'attachments' => $args['attachments']
	);
	
	return $new_wp_mail;
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail', 'arc_wp_mail_filter' );

Here an old topic with a similar question and answered by our core ninja’s.

Hope this will help you !

Hey,

@shanebp as I understand it, your plugin serves as sort of a ‘blacklist’ where you can block any user in a variety of ways. Have you considered making it the other way around? Whereby ALL other users were blocked from sending a Public or Private Message *unless* the User clicked on a button that added the other user to a ‘whitelist’?

If the user B clicked on a ‘Message’ button, they would be precluded from sending a message to User A unless User B had already been whitelisted by the recipient/User A. Maybe with the attempt generating a prompt to User B to submit a whitelist approval request to User A.

Maybe something like this already exists?

Something for consideration. Thoughts?

Thanks.

@buddies
If after following Hugo’s advice does not resolve your issue then place the below snippet in bp-custom.php

function bphelp_members_page_private_redirect() { 

if ( bp_is_members_component() ) {

	if(!is_user_logged_in()) { 
		bp_core_redirect( get_option('home') . '/register' );
	} 
}
}
add_filter('template_redirect','bphelp_members_page_private_redirect',1);

Good luck!

This is a question for S2 Member then and you should check it’s extensive documentation on how to block pages, if that proves unsuitable for your purposes then check back here and people can point you in the right direction to write custom functions to make pages private.

@bphelp does this also stop public groups from displaying in your activity stream if you are not a member too?

the reason i ask you this bphelp is because remember the old plugin you was working on (i think it was a fork of some code rich fuller posted a few years ago) which was named “activity-privacy-component” ? you left it on github and described it as a jurrasic plugin because of the new plugin “buddypress activity privacy plugin”.

Well that very same “Jurrasic plugin” still works very well today and is still far far far more superior at keeping your stream private compared to the plugin you said was better.

The only one thing that the old “activity-privacy-component” plugin doesnt do is keep the public groups you are not a member of from out of your private stream.

A potential implementation could have each class set up as a Private or Hidden Group. Each teacher attached to the class could be added as either an admin or a moderator of the group, giving them access to these private spaces.

We have used that in our school board with great success.

@melle328 I can confirm this,

see the thread I opened
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-private-group-forums-showing-up-in-activity/#post-234122

Hi again @milenushka

So you’re saying if a public forum is added to a private group then you’d like that forum to automatically be made private?

Give this a try (functions.phhp or better, bp-custom.php) This will force the chronology of the blog post.

Since recently (1.9 ?), a post published the 5th january is in the SWA at this date. A comment added to it the 26 january is attached to this post and appears under the 5th swa log…. so it’s just impossible to see if you have a long SWA.

This snippet revert the swa to the previous behave.
Posted: 5th -> swa: 5th
Commented: 26th -> 26th

function bpfr_stream( $qs, $object ) {
	if ( 'activity' != $object ) {
		return $qs;
	}
	
	$qs = wp_parse_args( $qs, array() );
	
	$qs['display_comments'] = 'stream';
	
	return $qs;
}
add_filter( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'bpfr_stream', 20, 2 );

Private groups activities are not visible on the SWA. They show only on that group, if user is member and logged in.

Hope that helps? 😉

Another option might be something like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/. I haven’t used it myself, so I’m not positive it still works.

I gave the Role bp_moderate but that did not solve the issue. There must be some other check that needs to be passed for these menu items to show up.

You may want to put a late filter on map_meta_cap to ensure it’s truly getting added, and not getting stomped or mapped back to manage_options.

Maybe a compromise could be found and some new functionality for the front end could be introduced that allows you to assign someone as Group Admin. I think i am not the only one that sees value in that Role especially in a big community where you have the need to moderate but do not want to give people access to the backend or higher Administrative privileges.

You’re on the right track. Each component could (and maybe should) come with its own hierarchy of roles. Just because someone can manage users doesn’t mean they can manage groups, if that makes sense?

I also don’t quite understand why a Group admin could not be derived from one of the Forum Roles. A forum Moderator or Keymaster should be able to moderate all Forums incl. the private group ones and could subsequently also be allowed to manage all groups.

Anything is possible, but I’m not sure this approach is a safe assumption for all installations. At least not in its current iteration.

All good ideas. Thanks @ubernaut for the bump.

I do not want to ‘add’ new activity. I just want that when one visits example.com/activity, it displays… …all updates in private/ hidden groups where the concerned person is a member (this is NOT displayed currently.) How do I do that?

You have to ‘add’ the new activity.

Regarding the second bullet point, you’d need to modify your activity loop which will be inside your activity template. Try something like this:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&display_comments=stream' ) ) : ?>
    <?php while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity(); ?>
 
        <?php locate_template( array( 'activity/entry.php' ), true, false ); ?>
 
    <?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

For more info on the BuddyPress template system and where you find your activity template, please see this article.

In the case of private messages, bp_get_the_thread_message_sender_id() is the function you should be using. The problem might be related to where you’re calling from (i.e. the member’s ID might not be accessible at the point where you are using the function).

For example, the bp_get_the_thread_message_sender_id() function must be used within a single message thread. Used anywhere else, it will return 0.