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@jboye @petervandoorn –

There was a bug in a previous version of bbPress where the visibility of the private and hidden forums were not being saved properly.

The bug is fixed in bbPress 2.4, but for previous group forums, you’ll need to repair them.

You can do this by:

• Logging in to the WP admin dashboard
• Navigate to “Tools > Forums”
• Make sure to check “Recalculate private and hidden forums”
• Lastly, hit “Repair Forums”

This will regenerate bbPress’ internal private and hidden forum IDs that are used to filter posts and will therefore fix forum visibility problems.

Just to add a footnote to thread:

if by ‘main activity page’ we mean the /activity/ A Directory then we should be able to test for that with:

bp_is_directory()

Then not have to qualify the conditional with ! user_activity or at least be able to do bp_is_directory && whatever comp we’re after.

In theory if you set your group to “Private” or “Hidden” then non-group members are not supposed to be able to see the posts in that group’s bbForum.

However, and this is denied by the developers, I am experiencing a bug which is making all forum posts appear in the site-wide activity stream to all members, although when they click on the link they cannot view the post.

cf: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/private-group-posts-appearing-in-activity-stream-to-non-members

So, no, you’re not going crazy 😉 and yes, it is incredibly frustrating!

Peter

BuddyPress groups can’t have categories associated with them. My advice would be to just set up a different group for each island. You can make each group private to ensure that only members of that group can see the forum posts within.

Additionally, there is a plugin which will give groups hierarchies if you wanted to make it easier to group groups together (eg, if your islands are grouped geographically you could have a “north islands” group and a “south islands” group and within each group you would then have your individual islands groups).

Search for “BP Group Hierarchy”

Hope that helps

Peter

Only happens when you are an Admin and on the single group page/ request process

I want to only allow private groups, so I’ve commented out the equivalent of lines 81-88 & 99-106 in create.php and 59-67 & 79-87 in admin.php. Now when a user creates a new group, it does only show the private option, but it remains unchecked unless they click on it, so if they don’t, the group’s status remains as ‘public’ when they continue to the next stage. How do you set the radio button to be checked by default?

@joe2000
Unless @joe2000 has objections we can close this as I resolved it privately. Thanks again Joe!

@joe2000
In line 37 of my plugin after this:
if ( !is_user_logged_in()
add this:
&& !is_home()
This will allow that landing page to logged out users but will redirect to register or wp-login.php depending on which you define in the plugins settings. All other pages other than the landing page will be private.

Same here. private group gets 404. public group fine. cant go live with client.

Just put the actual code on the registration page?
You can edit register.php in the theme.

You could also take a look at bp_get_current_signup_step(), if you want to make it an actual step in the registration process.

Maybe you could add a form that shows when a users tries accessing the register page that would require them to enter a security code first before seeing the actual register page.

Something like

if(!is_user_logged_in()) {
   if(!$_POST["access"]) {
     -show access form-
   } else {
     -show register page-
   }
} else {
  -redirect user since he's already logged in-
}

(Just a raw sketch)

Just redirect any url towards the register/login page if the user isn’t logged in?

bp_is_profile is used to test if its a profile page. try that in a conditional.

You probably ought to have migrated your bbPress group forums to the standalone plugin.