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Well, so can the site administrators. I was hoping the moderators would be able to moderate the private groups as well… But I guess this works. There’s not as great a need to moderate private groups since these are not publicly visible like they are on our current setup.

That’s for the replies!

I think I’ve got this one sorted… I created a “private” group with group forums, and invited the administrator members. The 6 admin team members can see this forum, and the moderators cannot.

Thanks for the reply. I think I’m fully installed, and now trying to get things set up. One question that I haven’t found an answer for yet… are there different moderator “levels”?

In our current forums setup, we have a forum board that only the site administrators (6 of us) can access. The moderators (a team of about 10 or so) have access to, and “powers” over, the rest of the forums areas.

Can something like this be set up in this environment, so that the site administrators can have a private discussion area, not accessible by the moderator team?

I can see where to turn of “Private” messaging, but not “Public”. Is there somewhere to do this in the admin that I’m missing?

sIt sounds like you just need a forum, which would be bbPress. The reason bbPress and BuddyPress are separate plugins is that this allows people to pick and choose according to their needs.

What you need to figure out first is, what do you want and need?

This is precisely where my mind was, yesterday. 🙂 Thank for the directed question and the link mentioned by mercime. I’m getting a better picture of two things.

The document provided clarity on the difference between a sitewide forum and the group forum. I needed this; regardless of app. Here’s the plan:

I want to create two distinct group forums. The first is “Shore Classified”. I want this to be a private group forum and not open to the public. This is where I’ll have individual forums dealing with specific topics relating to that forum. Ex. Business forum handle businesses in the Shore area. Another forum is Help Wanted.

I was planning to open this to a specific group of people. I am initially thinking the people in my church and others in the Jersey Shore area. Right now, I’m questioning what should be in that type of forum; as I am concerned with safety. So, I am open to alternative to what type of forum. I’d also like a forum where blog writers can share new stories they’ve written.

The second group forum is PUBLIC. This group forum is where I want people to go. This will need further developing. My initial thoughts is to create forums for popular area of interest. I did see a plugin that will create topics from my sites blog posts.

Sorry – should have added that I’d only like these topic hidden when they’re from a private group. Fine to show them from public groups that the user’s not a member of.

@aces Thanks much, that was a great idea. Unfortunately it didn’t work. There has got to be a way to at least make these feeds private. If anyone knows, please let me know.

Hi Seth!

Interesting, I didn’t know that you had a BP integration in place for EE. With which BP version was it compatible?

I know that the BP core developers have their hands full of work, so I won’t blame them for not taking on a complete events module in the core.

For me the question now is, which plugin takes the least effort to extend on our own. And yes, I know about your crowdfunding like offer to fund extensions to EE. But I need to meet certain deadlines and I don’t think you can guarentee a certain development until then.

BTW, isn’t the “I’ll attend’ and ‘Maybe’ a pretty simple code addition? A user presses a button which captures that users user id and writes it into a custom field of the event page. The plugin then fetches those ids and shows avatars of those people who attend.

I found an interesting tutorial (http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/01/27/limiting-visibility-posts-username/) which might lead the way for my other request, specific event visibility/privacy:

1. Only friends of events creator (again, write all the user ids of the event creator into a custom field thats not visible/accessible to users and then restrict visibility of event page to those users)

2. Only invited (would require more work. First have a way to notify other users of the event by private message or BP notification. Write the user ids of those into yet another custom field, rest see above)

I am pretty much a PHP noob. But are these things really so hard to do? More than a week of work for an experienced BP developer?

I’m actually looking at formatting the date in private messages and in that case WP doesn’t call the function with true. $just_date is set to false by default so that part is all good.

as you say I think i’ll have to write my own custom bp_format_time function. Thanks for your help!