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@vernontessio,

it depends on how you use bbpress ! As standalone forum or as group forum.

If you use buddypress’s group forums, you create a hidden group which will be only seen by the members who belongs to it and nobody else.

If you use bbpress outside of BP as standalone forum, you can use Private Groups plugin.

Remember also that Everything in a BuddyPress community revolves around its members.

So you created a private group call ‘vip’.
And added a forum to that group via ‘[your-site-url]/groups/vip/admin/forum/’
And added some members to the forum via
wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-groups -> Edit – Add New Members

And those added members cannot see the vip forum listed when visiting
‘[your-site-url]/forums/’ – correct?

I’m pretty sure that since BP 1.9 such issues won’t happen (on a correctly configured install).

Private forums are…private and a topic posted in a private forum isn’t shown on the SWA. You can only see such an activity if you’re the author of the post (within (profile > activity) or on the private group.

To be clear, you’re asking
Is there any way to hide activity in private forums from activity stream?
and cite as example an old post titled
Private group posts appearing in Activity Stream to non-members.

Hum ? It isn’t the same context i guess. 😉
Do you want to hide private group activities or do you want to eliminate a wrong behaviour, like the second question relates to ?

Hi @pstidsen

It sure is possible but you’ll need to write a custom function to handle the behaviour. The hook you’ll need is messages_message_sent. It fires after a private message has been sent successfully.

Have you asked the BP Private plugin devs? Seems that you could edit their code to do a check of each required field. They’re probably only checking if a person is logged in.

if (!bp_is_my_profile() && !bp_custom_get_member_list_xprofile_data('Company') && !bp_custom_get_member_list_xprofile_data('Location'))

The unfortunate part of this is that check would have to be done on every page causing unnecessary processing time to every page load, unless you set a cookie or a single flag in the db. But then what happens if a user removes the information in one of the fields at a later date.

Overall I like the way it looks. There are however a view things that stand out: When resizing the window you get overlays and the menu start the look weird. The category archives look a bit untidy with the tag spacing and amount of non content space. On protected pages the sidebar under the login aligns to the left.

I really like the group and profile banner but the little sidebar looks a bit weird when logged out imo, perhaps there is more info when logged in?

The sidebar also looks weird on private groups in chrome: http://cultivators-forum.com/groups/seedism/

Overal looking great tho, nice example of how much you can do with theming BP.

@seeingblues2,

i just tested bp default data as super-admin on a 2013 theme. Normally, super-admin can go and do anything, huh ?

Went to the dashboard, opened one of the private group i’m not member of and added me as group member.
WHAT ?!!! The following users could not be added to the group ! Incredible !

Always from the dashboard, I created a new group. This directed me to the frontend where i registered my new group.

Back to the dashboard, and from the new group, i added 2 members without any problem.
Normal !

I reoppened the first group who haven’t accept my membership, and tried again. This time it worked.

I logged me out, cleared my nav cache, and retested by processing the same as previous within another group. Again i received the failure message. But i regisred my change and suddenly my name appeared in the group name…. Tried several more, with different behaviour. Sometimes it works immediatly, sometimes after a few seconds, sometimes not at all.

No idea what make this happen. Perhaps some latency issue because of the name suggestion tool ?
Maybe that the Default data plugin doesn’t handle this properly ? Maybe its the theme ?

I thought guess it’s a little bp bug.

Please open a ticket with some details and link to this topic.

But it would be your effort wouldn’t it? or have you given a whole heap of people access to your DB, I do hope not.

I would suggest that the best way of looking at this is that messages are private only in the sense that they may not be publicly seen by others but that in order to run a site the owner/admin has to have access in full to all sorts of aspects, and state as such in a set of terms & conditions for site use.

No, passwords are encrypted !

And for your misfortune, any thing encrypted can be decrypted ! With more or less effort, time and money.

Are you living in a candy world ? 😉

To avoid any temptation, the only option is to deactivate the private message component.

@cartographer,
nobody forces the admin to read private messages, except, depending the country, some laws or other regulations. Any other reason to read is a personnal option.

And it is anyway possible by reading the message table in the db.

To disambiguate any further question around this, read the answer of @johnjamesjacoby

@admindirektor,

how do you expect some help if you don’t give the theme name or a site url ?
This is not a buddypres issue, but a wordpress setting affair.

Make the member package page as start page and set buddypress as private or members only.

More about “private” here:
https://buddypress.org/support/tag/private/

Hi @jsonb123

…there is a need to have a Members Directory on the site…

BuddyPress does provide a members directory.

They may or may not be able to communicate to other members

BuddyPress has both public and private messaging which could take care of this.

I think you’re doing the right thing by installing and testing it out to see if it’s for you. If not, then no harm done really.

It is not an issue, it is intended so !

The logged user’s profile tab comes with 3 sub menus:
– View (public)
– Edit (private)
– Change avatar (private)

On the main navigation of the member, you have at least
– Settings with 3 sub nav items:
– account credential (email, password)
– notifications
– field visibility settings

And if component is activated:
– Friends
– Groups
– Forum

I agree that this Setting is confusing, at least, because those labels should indicate My Friends, My Groups, My Forums and My profile fields visibility settings, which is too long i grant you. 😉

FYI: such distinction wern’t really possible untill now in the original english version.
But the upcomming BP 2.1 brings some better context disambiguation just to improve such situation.

To solve this today, you can:
1) create a translation file and modify the wording (but, as said, without disambiguation)
2) use a child theme and hardcode the text you want into the template file (best approach)
3) wait a few days for 2.1 to use the first option

Hi @godavid33,

Unless things have changed, users should be able to message anybody. Are you sure you’re not using a plugin such as BuddyPress Private Messages for Friends Only?

@durkk,

are you speaking about this wordpress add-on ?
You must have at least PrivateContent v2.3 to use it !

i would try something different.

Create a page for each student and set it to private, with a password which you give to the student.
With the password they can access to the page. This is a WP native behave.

It would not be very difficult after that to include such a page in each profile.

To write your summary or summaries, adapted to each student, or any other text, you could use @imath ‘s wp-manual.

You could also publish courses in PDF and use the buddydrive plugin. Your course will then be listed on your profile, depending your buddydrive visibility settings (public, private, friends, members….).

I think this can be reasonnably be used if you have few students, but if you have more than 50 you have to use a better adapted solution.

@rzelnik,

Here a little reminder.

Private group access:
This is a private group. To join you must be a registered site member and request group membership.

Hidden group access:
Hidden groups are not listed on group directory, for visitors and members. This is explained in the 1st step of the group creation page.
You must be invited to join a hidden group. Once accepted, you see this hidden group only in your group list. Additionnaly, you have to be friends first before you can invite a member to join a hidden group.

If you try to access a hidden group as visitor, you’ll see a 404 page. Same thing if you’re logged-in and not member of the hidden group.

The group widget works like the group directory, and use the same filters (active, popular, newest). The widget is just smaller. And like the group directory, the widget doesn’t mention the hidden groups, even if you’re member of such a group.

So, I guess it is not a issue.

@alishaescoto,

instead of struggling with custom roles, i would consider to use one or more private groups for the rescue group. With this setting, you even don’t need two types of members.

And somehow, the memberslist of a private group can than be hidden with some extra adjustment.

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