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@wadsworth4
What plugins did you use for making BP multisite private? I offer some premium plugins to make BP private but I personally haven’t tested it with BP multisite because I don’t really use it. For my purposes my Private Community For BP plugin does everything I need it to do.

Hi @amic58, @tecca

When BP is installed and xProfile is activated, the original WP profile settings are not accessible to user.

The WP register process use only username, password and email and BuddyPress add by default a Name field as base for other extended profile fields.

In short this means that username and name fields can contain a same information(a name, a pseudonym, a first or/and a last name). The plugin you mention is best for a WP install where user had choosen first/last name as output on post, comments, etc Once BP is activated, this became a little different.

Now to the initial question.
The CSS trick is a very inelegant solution as it lets everybody knowing how BP works to surround this invisibility. You’re also loosing any flexibility if you want to show some fields privately for example.

You can do this properly with a little snippet, as explained here:

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

Here’s an example which let you hide fields or fiels group to members, but not to site admin

function bpfr_hide_profile_field_group( $retval ) {
	if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :	
	
	// hide profile group/field to all except admin	
	if ( !is_super_admin() ) {		
		//exlude fields, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '1';  
		//exlude groups, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_groups'] = '1'; 			
	} 
	return $retval;		
	
	endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_hide_profile_field_group' );

Add it to bp-custom.php or your child-theme functions.php

Of course you can also choose to show a field or group, but remove the possibility for the user to edit it later. Simply add more conditionnal to the function.

Here another example:

function bpfr_hide_profile_edit( $retval ) {	
	// remove field from edit tab
	if(  bp_is_user_profile_edit() ) {		
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '54'; // ID's separated by comma
	}	
	// allow field on register page
	if ( bp_is_register_page() ) {
		$retval['include_fields'] = '54'; // ID's separated by comma
		}		
	
	// hide the field on profile view tab
	if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=54' ) ) : 
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '54'; // ID's separated by comma	
	endif;	
	
	return $retval;	
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_hide_profile_edit' );

Hope to be clear.

@dee987
I offer a premium plugin that would work for your situation. If your interested you can contact me here: https://bphelpblog.wordpress.com/submit-comments-tips-or-tricks-or-job-inqueries/
The name of the plugin is Private Community For BP.

Instead of using messages_new_message() to send a private message, you’d use bp_activity_post_update() to post an activity update. Note that the function accepts different arguments so you’ll need to amend those.

See here for more info on the function.

Did you get this fix? I am having the same problem. I get email notifications. I get notifications for private messages. But nothing for any other activity.

Dominic

@gyfi
Or if you would like a quick and easy plugin solution I offer a couple of premium plugins for that. http://bphelpblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/private-bp-pages/
Submit Comments, Tips or Tricks, or Job Inqueries

Yep you’re meant to be able to see pages like that and like activity stream, BP is not intended on being a private community out of the box, securing pages is pretty easy though; try searching the forum please as it’s been discussed many many times.

Loving Buddypress 2.1.1. My only big request would be with regard to Private messaging:

1. Allow users to ignore (silently block) users from private messaging them. For example, if you receive a PM from a user you do not wish to converse with (troll, spammer or some other form of harassment) you can simply click “ignore” or “block” to block this user(s). The offending user is not made aware of this and future PM’s send by this person are simply not seen by the recipient while keeping the offender unaware.

Users can edit their block/ignore list to remove/add users from it.

2. Provide site admins the option to prevent users from PM’ing multiple users at the same time.

That’s pretty much it. A simple request that would have a positive impact IMO. Looking forward to the next release. TThanks.

I’m still new to buddypress. I’m wondering if this thread might be close to what I need. I don’t want to get any new user notifications sent to me (my admin email address). The notification I get shows the new user’s email address. I want email addresses to be private and drop into some kind of database that I can later use to send newsletters to. Anyway to fix that?

Thanks

I’m not aware of a plugin that can do exactly that? Perhaps some of the guys on here know of one?

To do it manually, you could hook a function to init and work from there. For example:

function my_function() {

    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_current_component( 'messages' ) ) {
        // Current user is not logged in so don't let them see stuff. In this case, private messages 
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
        
    $flag = false;
    // Get current user info.
    $user = wp_get_current_user();

    if ( ! in_array( 'student', $user->roles ) ) {
        // The current member is not a student.
        $flag = true;
    }

    if ( $flag && bp_is_current_component( 'messages' )  ) {
        The currently logged-in member is not a student and is trying to view private messaging. Let's redirect them away.
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_function' );

From that, you should be able to see how you can achieve what you’re trying to do without the need of a plugin.

Refs:

Template Tag Reference

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect

Note to lazy people

Definetly using the orange search button on the top right corner of this forum mostly brings good advice. But YOU have to search a bit before asking ! 😀

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/making-buddypress-private/

More ?
https://buddypress.org/support/search/private/

Members are the heart of BuddyPress. When a user register on a BP activated site, this user is automatically a “member”.

So i guess “they are not registering for the site, just the members area” is just impossible. Don’t know what you already did to get a “private” member area, but if you have an issue, it’s mostly because you did something wrong. 😉

To confirm to readers what you already get to work:

To modify the registration page, on which appears the login fields belonging to WP (user, username, email & password), BP adds his own additionnal fields, under condition you activated the xProfile component.

By default, BP add only one field in the mandatory field group “Base”: NAME.

When the admin add a new field, he can choose between different field status, and depending this status, you will see phrase such as “This field can be seen by: “.

These settings are avaible in Dashboard > Users > Profile Fields

To create a member only site, I would highly recommend this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-private-site/

1.) For invites try: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/
To keep logged out visitors from accessing BP pages check out: http://bphelpblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/private-bp-pages/
Usernames can’t be changed and if you don’t want users changing their password you would need to custom code it unless you can find a code snippet on the forum or on the net.
2.) You can use filters and you can also try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/
3.) Use bbPress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/
You will have to search the plugins directory, the forums, and google the rest for your requirements unless someone else would like to take over where I left off. Hope this is at least a start. Good luck!

Here’s a snippet to filter members list based on profile field.

Remove your custom members-loop file first and revert to default one.

The example use field ID 62 with value = public
The field is called Privacy in xProfile and use a selectbox field type who shows 2 options: private and public.

You’ll probably also have to remove, or to conditionnally show, the top navbar, search box, etc in the template (childtheme/buddypress/members/index.php)

Add this snippet to bp-cutom.php.

class BP_Custom_User_Ids {
	private $custom_ids = array();
	public function __construct() {
		$this->custom_ids = $this->get_custom_ids();
		add_action( 'bp_pre_user_query_construct', array( $this, 'custom_members_query' ), 1, 1 );
		add_filter( 'bp_get_total_member_count', array( $this, 'custom_members_count' ), 1, 1 );
	}
	
	private function get_custom_ids() {
		global $wpdb;
		// collection based on an xprofile field
		$custom_ids = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT user_id FROM {$wpdb->prefix}bp_xprofile_data WHERE field_id = 62 AND value = 'Public'");
		return $custom_ids;
	}	
	
	function custom_members_query( $query_array ) {
		$query_array->query_vars['include'] = $this->custom_ids;
	}	
	
	function custom_members_count ( $count ) {
		$new_count = count( $this->custom_ids );
		return $count - $new_count;		
	}
}

function custom_user_ids( ) {
	new BP_Custom_User_Ids ();
}
add_action( 'bp_before_directory_members', 'custom_user_ids' );

Props @shanebp (tip on github)

Hi @callumoberholzer

BuddyPress allows you to have:

• member profiles
• an advanced member search (through the BP Profile Search plugin)
• private messaging

So it looks like your requirements are covered. My advice would be to set up a test install and try out all of the features to see if they meet your requirements.