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It only affects non-logged-in-users.

If you want support for bbPress, then you need:
BP Simple Private Pro

WP users are BP users, except for the profile fields you add in wp-admin > Users > Profile Fields

For granular control of both WP and BP content re logged-in vs. not-logged-in, have you tried BP Simple Private ?

You can get it here: WP Repo – BP Simple Private

Or here: PhiloPress – BP Simple Private

Hi @littlemisslanna,

can you give more details please ?
Which type of forum do you use: bbpress as stanalone or group forums ?
Do you mean “edit” or “publish” ? – it’s not the same thing. They’re no notification when you edit (aka modify) a topic.
What do you mean by notification ? A private mail or the activity stream information (site, group, profile…) ?

Thanks for the post, and thank you everyone that chimed in to alert the OP about the protocol for security concerns. Understanding it’s possible there’s a communication gap here, this topic does also read (to my eyes) as condescending & inflammatory, which is honestly not going to yield a very positive conversation. I think y’all did a great job staying positive, and I for one greatly appreciate that.

To be clear to anyone else that runs into this topic, what the OP sees is not a BuddyPress or bbPress bug; this is WordPress doing it’s best to show published content from public post types.

About BuddyPress:
* Neither BuddyPress nor bbPress modify this core behavior
* BuddyPress does not use this interface; bbPress does
* The .org sites have not disabled this, they just do not have any unusual content to leak

The gist:
* If plugins allow for private content, it’s up to those plugins to protect it
* If you create roles with content limitations, it’s up to you to confirm they’re working

For anyone looking to modify or restrict content that appears in this list, use the wp_link_query_args and wp_link_query filters to do so.

Here is how WordPress calculates the results in this list. Note that it only uses published posts from public post-types:

$pts = get_post_types( array( 'public' => true ), 'objects' );
$pt_names = array_keys( $pts );

$query = array(
	'post_type' => $pt_names,
	'suppress_filters' => true,
	'update_post_term_cache' => false,
	'update_post_meta_cache' => false,
	'post_status' => 'publish',
	'posts_per_page' => 20,
);

WordPress has a built-in way to calculate privacy scope using 'perm' => 'readable' and even that is not used here (though bbPress does use this in its own loops.) WordPress instead takes a strict position of published public content by default.

If anything unexpected is appearing here, it is not because of BuddyPress or bbPress, and we are still happy to help anyone discover the source of this in a new & more friendly topic.

As far as I know, in order to reply to a specific participant only, they’d need to start a new private message. Unless that’s done, as you pointed out, the reply will go to all participants.

I have come across the same issue recently. Seems still to be the default. Did you find anything else to resolve this? Otherwise I guess it is a custom code job to get hidden and private group forums to be showing on a users profile.

As I’ve suggested forget about changing functionality of private groups and instead focus on public groups and employing the alternate control public group plugin to lock public groups down to require membership requests so they act similar to Private Groups. And then you won’t need to reinvent the wheel concerning Private Group functionality.
Basically look at your problem from another angle and focus on modifying Public Group functionality over Private Group functionality as you’ll have a much easier time with that approach.
Cheers

Hi @sprocketbuddy,

As @imath notes in his video trying to get private groups to function ‘publicly’ is going to be quite difficult as it’s ingrained in the core.

You’ll want to start with his plugin (https://github.com/imath/altctrl-public-group) and customize to your needs. As Public Groups by default have Group content and activity visible to any user by employing his plugin you’ll achieve the options you desire with introducing membership requests to the public group but still display it’s members, content, activity.

Hope that helps get you started in the right direction. Try it out and let me know what roadblocks you hit and we can probably assist.

Cheers

Hi @sprocketbuddy,

Take a look at this plugin by @imath;
https://github.com/imath/altctrl-public-group

I believe it goes along with your needs. He found rather than hacking/rewritting permission things for private groups that it was easier to utilize a public group and just lock it down with more controls.

There’s a demo here;

Cheers

Private group options are

1. Only users who request membership and are accepted can join the group.
2. This group will be listed in the groups directory and in search results.
3. Group content and activity will only be visible to members of the group.

To modify option 3, you can code something.
Read from here.