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Have you tried this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-simple-private/

There is nothing to do ! Private groups are even private. If user 1 is only member of group A and NOT of group B, user 1 can only act with group A forum.

Aside, question related to bbPress should be asked on bbPress forum, not on BuddyPress forum.

Private niche social network to give an idea of the kind of features that might be indicated

again as i said before. No idea on what kind of features u would be looking at providing to your users

minimize by replacing any plugins that I can with code

that wont help. code or plugin is mostly the same thing IMO if you looking at speed of ur site

Thx *danbp*
With define( ‘BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION’, ‘members’ ); the default tab for all groups (private and public) DOES change.
But if the user is not a member of a private group, he cannot see the group’s page to request a membership. However, if the user is already a member of private group, of course everything is OK and the default tab is changed as the same as the public groups.
If I don’t remove ‘home’ tab in the group pages, then everything is fine though!

@marcono,

of course that define works also for private groups ! Has nothing to do with group status.

If it really dosn’t work for you, you have an error somewhere, but current home tab is not related to group privacy. Members access is restricted, not the output.

define( 'BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION', 'members' );

Thank you *danbp*, a lot!

Yes I wanted to do it for all group. define( 'BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION', 'members' ); works perfectly. But, not for private groups, i.e. if you click on the group which is private, it will not be available.

‘danbp’ your codes work great!
One thing, though, since I removed the ‘home’ item in groups, now if I create a private group or click on a public group icon, the group page will not be available!
I think it is because the ‘home’ item has remained as the default page for the group pages!? I changed my profile default page with ‘define(‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ );’ but it seems for changing group default tab story is different, so I used code suggested here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults/

But still no success!?

rest all can be done with buddypress private groups….regarding this “view the package we sent them and be able to download them” do you want to offer digital downloads?

@r-a-y I’ll provide you with developer’s contacts in a private message for more efficient work, because I’m just a newcomer and not sure I can be helpful here further.