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I checked a shipment of update messages in activity and private, and both work well.
Working with both WordPress latest version as of BuddyPress.

Are you using any private message plugins or code snippets that might be interfering with this?

For private messages, auto-complete only shows your friends.

To access everyone, put this in your theme/functions.php or in plugins/bp-custom.php

define( 'BP_MESSAGES_AUTOCOMPLETE_ALL', true );

I use Rumbletalk group chat room to do exactly that.

1 – Decide the type of allowed logins to the room.

So if you define GUESTS and Registered users (RumbleTalk), than your Buddypress users will be logged in automatically, guests would provide a name and then they could enter the chat.

2 – Now, users could talk in a group or in private chats.
** They could also have live “one on one” Video Calls or audio calls.
Note, Since they use WebRTC (google video protocol) you will need that your chat will be secured (https/SSL) to make audio and video chats.

The premium version allows you to set a custom redirect url – which could be thought of as a homepage for visitors.
http://www.philopress.com/products/bp-simple-private-pro/

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

By default, all BP pages are public.
Your feedback page is not a BP page, afaik.
Therefore something in your theme, plugins or custom code is setting that WordPress page to private.
I doubt it is related to .htacess

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

Have the same problem: new wp install 442 + buddypress 2.5.8, first on theme 2016, then theme quest, both all the links in profile but no “add friend” button,
in bp settings all functions are enabled,
sending private messages works fine,
group owner invite people works, too

changing theme didn’t help.
Has anyone pls a suggestion?

The only way I’ve found to display private forums on the main forum listing page is to use the Private Groups plugin. From what I can tell, it does not use the BuddyPress groups feature — you have to create new groups within the plugin settings.

The good news is that the plugin does exactly what I was looking for: It allows you to have private forums for a subset of members, and the forum is not visible on the main forums page to anyone who is not part of that subset.

Note that the plugin requires you to use different “Recent Activity” widgets, in order to hide private activity from other users. Those widgets are included with the plugin.

If there is a way to do this natively with BuddyPress groups, I’d like to hear it.

I agree that this should be a function in buddypress core. A standard checkbox to make a site private. If selected, a standard set of pages are automatically added as viewable by logged out/unregistered users (about us, privacy policy, terms of service, etc.), and able to be unchecked by the admin as necessary.

You know what, while we’re at it, Theme My Login plugin functionality should be added to core as well. The ability to customize the login for branding, and customizing the registration page; eg. viewable/required fields, to make it more site specific should be included as well.

I use My Private Site by David Gewirtz

To prevent indexing by google, you need one or more robots.txt files.

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

Hi,

have you activated Private message option in BuddyPress settings ?
have you the same issue when you use one of the Twenty something theme ?

I have the same problem. I am very interested in options for how to address this issue. A related problem is that posts in private groups show up the activity streams for the person in question and are indexed for the entire web to see.

I don’t remember how I did it, but I had to edit out the entire activity stream section in profiles to avoid the problem. Unfortunately, it is not possible to disable the activity stream module, since it is used by notifications.

I wrote:

….somehow I had the impression that private had also worked for authors before the update….but thats another thing”

and

In my application sofar all members are editors (and currently planned to be editors),

The last sentence is wrong, I actually intended sofar all members to be authors (Autor in german) not editors (Redakteur in german).

I wrote the first sentence because before Shane’s comment I am pretty sure that I had tested wether the private pages are visible for authors and not only for editors or admins and thus I am pretty sure that they were so before. It is just that after Shane’s comment I wanted to check back. Unfortunately before I could check back there was an
automatic wordpress update, which now unfortunately screwed up the intended application.

@fscbmwcca

I’m sorry I haven’t expressed myself well and now off topic.

no. Your comments were definitely helpful and in no way off topic. Thanks again.
I understand now what you mean by subscriber – it’s called “abonnent” in german.
I actually tested wether abonnent may still be able to see the activities with the above hack (and not only admin or editor) and the activities are still viewable for all who are logged in, so if subscriber isn’t blocked by Shane’s plugin then may be the above hack would work for you (at least for a while until the next update).
But it is somewhat weird that this works since I just checked back – as Shane said: private pages are really only visible for admins and editors….at least after the last automatic update.(….somehow I had the impression that private had also worked for authors before the update….but thats another thing). Its weird.

It doesn’t handle the avatar.
It creates Friend, Public & Private messages buttons.
And provides a hook for you to add another call.

See function setup_actions() in this file for where it is hooked to create the default buttons:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress-functions.php

I know the plugin doesn’t address my issue but keeps BuddyPress for members only and hide it from non-logged in users. Privacy is very important to our members. I will upload the members that are truly members from a csv file from a list that is provided for me and give the Contributor Role. What I meant by subscriber is the “Subscriber” Role (vs Contributor, Author, Editor, Administrator).
I’m sorry I haven’t expressed myself well and now off topic. I was just trying to provide a solution for making pages private.

@shanebp

If you’re referring to the Visibility checkbox feature – Private means only viewable by admins and editors.

OOOOK. thanks for the hint….I admit I haven’t yet looked into the manual, as said I am a newcomer -that is I first tried to make sense of what I saw.

In my application sofar all members are editors (and currently planned to be editors), so the private check in the visibility box on pages makes those pages private for “members”. And since if I understood correctly the BP member functions (activity component etc.) are “instanced” by filling the member page it seems it would in principle be enough to set this page to private….if the BP code would have found the page, which it didnt therefore the above hack.
But for the future eventually we might want to include non-editing members as well so thanks this is certainly important to know.

@fscbmwcca
I haven’t tried the plugin, as said it seems as if it doesn’t go together that straightforward with the blog. By your description it sounds almost as if it’s not secluding the whole subadress, (like …/member/wildcart) but only specific adresses then this would
not go together with the blog at all. What are subscribers?
Can you set all your members to be editors? Then maybe the above solution I sofar use might help.

With the WordPress 4.4/BuddyPress 2.4.3/bbPress 2.5.8, if you set any of the BuddyPress pages set to private you get the following error “The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activity Streams. Repair”

True – If you set Visibility to Private!
Not true if you set the ‘Public or Private’ checkbox provided by the BP Simple Private.

I want people to be able to register as Subscribers but Subscribers should not see any of the BuddyPress/bbPress stuff, only the Contributors and above should be part of the BuddyPress/bbPress community.

So you want to limit access to BP content based on a user’s role.
That is a different issue from the original poster’s issue.
You should create a new topic.
The BP Simple Private plugin discussed above is not applicable to your issue.

With the WordPress 4.4/BuddyPress 2.4.3/bbPress 2.5.8, if you set any of the BuddyPress pages set to private you get the following error “The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activity Streams. Repair”

I tried the https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-members-only/ and that didn’t seem to do what I wanted. I want people to be able to register as Subscribers but Subscribers should not see any of the BuddyPress/bbPress stuff, only the Contributors and above should be part of the BuddyPress/bbPress community. So I need to be able to exclude Subscribers from BuddyPress/bbPress. I have looked and there is some code out there that seems pretty old so I don’t know if it would work and I am not so great with php so I am a little hesitant. I am also new to BuddyPress so I’m not sure of all the ins and outs.

I tested the plugin and it’s working, in the settings there are two areas [edited – please do not copy & paste such data ]
I hope I am being clear.