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There is an option to make a group hidden,this may be what you need.

On the group admin panel as you go through the create/edit process you can make the group private or hidden.

If you make the other groups Private or Hidden, users can only join the one group you have left Public. You’ll need to provide more detail if you are looking for something different than that.

Maybe this will help?
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sorting-private-message-threads/

Sorry I didn’t explain this as well as I could have. You shouldn’t need a lot of servers, just one very good server. So if you’re using cheap shared hosting at $5-10/mo, that’s not going to cut it once your site scales up large. In that scenario you’re sharing bandwidth and resources with many other sites, and the server itself (which is just a computer really) is likely not all that fast if you’re not paying much. You can rent your own server, or a virtual private server, and it can have very high specs all dedicated to your site. Like 24 cores, 2-4gb RAM, etc. That will be fast. You can get that for $50-$100/mo depending on what you choose/need. And you can always migrate a site from one server setup to another. A developer experienced in moving sites can usually do this within a day.

A HUGE site does need multiple servers. Facebook for example probably has thousands of servers all around the world. But keep in mind how much raw data they must serve. A BP site at 100,000 users can probably be delivered from one database, from one server. The guiding strategy is to take as much load off of that server as possible, and then make sure the server is good enough to handle what is left without crashing or stalling with not enough RAM. “caching” at the server level is a method to take load off of the server. Using a CDN takes load off of the server. etc.

I’m sure speed is an issue that the BP team thinks a lot about, but it’s a hard one to tackle as people are all customizing everything and it’s not really best practice to include caching within plugins. Although best practice isn’t everything, because in reality a solid caching system for BP would solve a lot of speed issues. It would need to cache individual components and break them live with AJAX, or something like that – not my expertise. I can imagine this interfering with many custom setups and plugins however, so like I said, probably not a simple fix.

Same here, my user clicks “Request Membership” button on a private group and gets page that says “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?”

I’m using BuddyPress 1.9.1, BuddyBoss theme 3.04

I’m experiencing a simular problem with bp groups and bbpress. If my group admins change their group settings from public to private, the forum type doesn’t. The forum tools doesn’t fix it.

WP 3.8
BP 1.8.1
BBPRESS 2.5.2

Thanks!
Daniel

Hi @marcella1981

You’d release your theme through the WordPress Theme Directory (or you can make your theme available privately – through a GitHub repo for example).

There will be a theme review process if you plan to release through the Theme Directory. Take a look at this for more info:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review

For guidance on theme development (assuming you haven’t finished your theme yet), check out:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

Probably also worth noting that everything works fine for logged in users. We are specifically looking to have the blog accessible to non-logged in users, and the community private (only logged in members have access).

Hi there,
So I’m using this plugin on WP 3.8 and BP1.9.1 and hsving a little difficulty. Tried a couple things here to make a private community before finally finding thi plugin that actually works – thanks.

Question : how do I have a public blog, with a private BP? I entered the blog as one of the unblocked pages, however the blog does not show up. Can you help?

Thanks.

i believe the blog posts are actually handled by wordpress (usually by re-assigning or deleting post by your choice). everything else besides private messages i believe get erased along with the user.

@ubernaut The problem is internal broken links – the activity stream might have items in it that aren’t removed that point to a user’s profile. Then there are manual links user’s have posted themselves – @-mentions in activity updates, in activity comments, in blog comments, in blog posts, and inside private messaging threads. The list is quite endless. To my knowledge, there’s no set way of dealing with these remains after an account has been deleted.

I opened a thread a few days ago in an attempt to perform some housekeeping after a user deletes their account. Didn’t get any responses so I put the idea on hold temporarily.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/housekeeping-after-delete-acount/

Hi @johnjamesjacoby

http://www.helpmemove.ca/wordpress/

That is the website I am developing. It is a WordPress single site. Basically I need admin to be able to see conversations between members in the activity stream or see the private messages between members.

Using the BP Activity Privacy plugin I can set the activity stream option to “admin only” as a member, but this stops the member I mention from seeing the message!

I need the admin to see conversation between a “member1” and “member2” whether it be via activity stream or private messages, but other members should not be able to see it.

Basically only admin, member1, member2 need to be able to see a conversation. Wondering if there is any way to do this!

Thanks,
Adam

Hi @meginfo,

I tried adding that to my functions.php but it doesn’t show the messages. I am also using activity stream privacy but here is my situation:
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Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way to set the privacy level to allow mentions to be seen only by the people involved in the conversation and the admin.

For example, while testing the plug-in I set the privacy level to “admin only” and as the admin I sent a message to a subscriber level member.

However, the person gets a notification they were mentioned, but can’t see the message itself.

Is it possible there is a setting or way to have it so only the people mentioned and the admin see the message?

So if member1 mentions member2 I require both members AND the admin to be able to see that message, but no one else, whether it be from activity stream or private messages.

Thanks very much for your time and help,
Adam

I need this functionality on my website. How does admin see the private messages in BuddyPress?

Well there is nothing much to it.

If you understand what BuddyPress is, you know it needs to active a few components – you can decide what components you want to activate when you activate the BuddyPress plugin.

Let say if you don’t want private messages then don’t activate it. If you like your member to message each other you should activate.
Only if you activate components you need to create WordPress pages to show those components – simple right?
BuddyPress plugin helps you do that and creates those pages for you, you can save those default pages or change them to other pages.
Lets say you want your Groups not to show up on the example.com/groups/ page but at the example.com/community/ page then you can do so by just changing the name of that groups page.

Normally every WordPress theme should be able to handle the BuddyPress plugin just fine because BuddyPress uses the default WordPress templates to show all the BuddyPress pages.
But if you have an older WP theme or a very complicated WordPress theme you can get into some troubles of course.
There are some WordPress themes that are made for specific fields like photographers or portfolio websites those themes are often made just to target those fields of work and don’t need social media integrations.

It sounds like you’re heading in the direction of a private community. Keep in mind that if it’s private, then search engines can’t index your content. Which may be good or bad, depending on your goals.

You’ll find a lot of info by searching this support forum or the web for “buddyPress private community”

For instance:
https://buddypress.org/support/tag/private-community/

Only members of a private group can see the content