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@yespapa This plugin will do exactly what you’re looking for – https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-private-site/

What I did was to set the content pages and posts as private in WordPress and then I gave the member role the ability to view private content using a user role editor plugin

Have you tried PRivate Content?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-content/

There are some premium content plugins that do this, one I was looking at is WP Customer Area, this gives you the option of having individual pages private to a particular user. you could look at that.

You could set the to be private pages and give your member the ability to view private pages using WPFront?

@shanebp: I don’t understand. Why are all the BP pages listed as options for only logged in users in the Menu widget except for the Members page (and Register and Log in, ofcourse)? I only want logged in members to see the member directory, for the sake of the privacy of my members. I can add the page via the regular pages menu, but then it is visible in the menu to everyone even if they are logged out. Or if I go to http://www.site.com/members/ when not logged in, the page with the list of members is visible. I would like the members directory to be private. I don’t understand why BP left this out of the menu for logged in users only. If this is not possible, is there a way to block the /members/ page from the public that won’t mess anything up?

In fact, I just checked all the logged-in links in a different browser that I’m not logged in to, and the members, activities, groups, friends and profile pages are ALL visible! Doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose of having a membership community that requires registration????? At least messages, notifications, and settings are locked. Am I missing something?

a) If I click to “View” the message (not the html link), in the majority of cases I’m taken to the error page. I’m not clear why this is the case?

Did you happen to delete those activity items? The reason I think you are getting the error page is because those activity items don’t exist.

b) Is there a way to disable html coding in these message boxes?

Yes. You need to filter the text so that all HTML tags are stripped out. There are WordPress functions that can do this for you. See wp_filter_nohtml_kses().

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_filter_nohtml_kses

2. How do you get the edit facility to appear under Profile? I have Extended Profiles checked. I can only see “View” and “Change Profile Photo”.

This could be a theme issue. Try activating TwentyFifteen to see if you get the edit facility appear.

3. Is there a way to disable the html coding for all of the message boxes i.e. site-wide, private, public, groups and members?

Yes, but it isn’t as straightforward as updating a setting. You’ll need to filter each one, using wp_filter_nohtml_kses() to strip out the tags, as mentioned above.

Hope this helps!

Hello
There are message boxes in activity (public) and groups as well as private. Is the word private replaced with activity and groups for the other message boxes? If not, how do identify these?

Thanks for the support.

Gary

Please don’t double post.
The answer to your question is similar to the answer in the same thread where you also asked this question.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-html-in-buddypress-private-message/

There is no global filter for message boxes.
You have to find the filter hook as in the thread referred to above.

@swissprice – There are several “chat” plugins what “work with wordpress / buddypress” – it would be easy to establish a group chat room that allows registered and non-registered users to chat with each other via the main chat room – and they can private message each other there.

As far as “begin chat with this user” – I think you would need something that says “User A” is online now – and a setting that would allow a non-registered, non-logged in person to send a “message”. I think I saw a thread a while back where someone was trying to adapt the “single user profile page” to allow guest comments, aka activity post on that profile / user’s activity page..

Not sure exactly what you are going for here.

@tischla,
unable to reproduce your issue.
Did you activated Private Messaging component in BP settings ?

Which them and plugins are you using ?
Have you tested with only WP/BP enabled (without other plugins) and One of Twenty’s theme ?

function bp_keep_user_private( $user_login, $user ) {

	global $wpdb;

	if( 'username' === $user->user_login ) {

		$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 2 WHERE ID = %d", $user->ID ) );
	}

}
add_action( 'wp_login', 'bp_keep_user_private', 10, 2 );

you can try something like this that will set that account to inactive on every login. change username to the real username

If your site is private then you don’t need a verification procedure. But my point was you should look at the verification procedure because the functionality is very close to what you’re trying to achieve.

Yes ! You need to use template overload, then you can remove that part from the template.
While creating a new group:
See bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/create.php
While modifying a group:
bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/single/admin.php

Caution: if you do this, you can only use public or private groups. Hidden groups are “invite users” only.

@ajaysingh-1
man – there is post_comment, post_update – and a bunch of others on the hookr io page
http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=a

not sure what you mean post button comment section..
hmm.. section on the site-wide activity page?
via private message emails / replies?

hmm.. group replies?

I don’t know anything about the functions and code actually – but hopefully the hookr info will help ya, or this comment will help you detail what exactly you are looking for – so if someone does know about this code they will know more about what you mean..

One more piece of info, in case this helps somebody help me.

I also have entered a user called “Alter Ego”. That user, it turns out, can only be private messaged at “alter-ego”. (To clarify: “Prof L” gets private messages using “admin”: the @ symbol appears to be working normally, for ‘mentions’)

So is this a problem with username formatting? Have I accidentally introduced this problem with these usernames?

Sadly, I’m not here with an answer, but another manifestation of this same problem.

Am running WordPress with bbpress and BuddyPress, Twentyfourteen theme, everything updated except I’ve not yet gone to BuddyPress 2.3.3.

My login is “Prof L”; so is my user name. To the best of my knowledge I’ve set “admin” nowhere in BuddyPress……but to private message me, “@admin” is required!

Update: OK, I see that in email settings, one of the options reads as follows:

A member mentions you in an update using “@admin”

So somehow that has been set to my “handle” (is that the right BP term?) But again, I never to my knowledge entered “admin”, nor does it display anywhere on the front end of the site.

I will try the plugin mentioned up thread, and report back–but wanted to testify that this problem is real and ongoing….

@iseestarz

Activity wall – Yes – in core.
all members chat – private user to user email like messages in core. Chat rooms with plugins like “quick chat” – so yes
sleek custom profiles for members, -hard to tell what is “sleek” – custom? for each member? There are a couple of plugins that played with this – not sure how they work, if they’ve been updated lately.. modding how all profiles look to make them “sleeker” than default 2015 – theme – possible..

a paid membership option – that would be a plugin.. there are several that get into that.. s2member, paid memberships pro, ultimate member maybe? Some options from wpmudev as well I think.

A way to let paid members make their own post/articles on the homepage – hmmm.. maybe prevent non paid members from even creating a blog.. or you mean any activity posts on home page – I think these things are possible.. BP recently added “user levels” but I have not see much actually use that.. but extending this should be easy to some degree..

However if your focus is on paid members things, and you will need support to put all this together and keep it running (you are not a php coder with lots of time to read codex and test things) – then developing around BP is likely to get expensive, and you might be better off forgetting bp exists and looking at some of the more premium systems others have put together around wordpress (a few wpmudev plugins combined achieve what you describe without needing BP) – and there are others..

Of course you don’t have to look for such a system revolving around wordpress either – there are more mature social network options that may save you time and sanity – things like phpfox, boonex dolphin, oxwall..

random thoughts from a bp user.. I’m not a dev and have not tested all the things out there that get into paid members things and restrictions.. if you search the forums here there have been a few comments from others pointing to some other similar plugin options – and some people have pointed out troubles with some of those on the market.

is there an other setting ? No other setting in BP.

Deactivate the child and use original Fifteen while testing.

– no error message ? No JS error in console (browser tool) ?

A similar topic here, with other advice
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/private-message-button-only-appears-sometimes/