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

So you want to block
yoursite.com/members/
and
yoursite.com/activity/
from users who aren’t admins or editors ?

But allow everyone to view
yoursite.com/members/my-profile?

Then you might try putting a current_user_can conditional directly in the over-ride templates for those two pages.

[there surely is a way to write a function to do this, but it escapes me at the moment]

Perhaps a simpler way, given that she wants to check for both admin and editor, is to test against a cap that both admin and editor have.

Something like: `function bp_my_restrict() {

if ( !current_user_can(‘edit_posts’) ) {

if ( bp_is_current_component(‘members’) || bp_is_current_component(‘activity’) ) {

bp_core_redirect( home_url() );

}
}
}
add_action(‘wp’,’bp_my_restrict’);`

Hi @mossyoak

I’ve run a few tests and made some slight changes to that code. Try this

function bp_my_restrict() {
   $user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id(); 
   $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
	
      

         if ( ( $user->roles[0] != 'administrator' ) ) {
		 
		 if ( bp_is_current_component('members') || bp_is_current_component('activity')  ) {
            wp_redirect( home_url() );
	    exit();
	 }
      }
}
add_action('wp','bp_my_restrict');

Just read through your original question. The code snippet you’d want to add to your theme’s functions.php is something like this:

function bp_my_restrict() {
   global $bp;
   $user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id(); 
   $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
	
      if ( bp_is_current_component('members') || bp_is_current_component('activity') ) {

         if ( ( $user->roles[0] != 'administrator' ) ) {
            wp_redirect( $bp->loggedin_user->domain );
	    exit();
	 }
      }
}
add_action('wp','bp_my_restrict');

Try this

<?php

   $user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id(); 
   $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
   
   if ( $user->roles[0] != 'administrator' ) {
     // your code
   }

?>

I disabled the plugin “simple chat” and it worked again!

You could use the WordPress conditional is_page() to check if the user is on the activity or members page:

if ( is_page('members') || is_page('activity') ) {

} else {

}

Note: I’m assuming you haven’t changed the default slugs

@shanebp,

thanks for your reply I thought as much but I think it get wiped during the plugin update.

Thanks for your input anyways.

Best Regards

@funmi-omoba

Open the plugin file, find the text, replace the text

@shanebp,

Thanks for your snippet which works great with standard buddypress message system but did not work if using BP Profile Message UX plugin, is there anyway to make it work please

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-message-ux/

tahnks

@shanebp – oops thanks for pointing that out. global $bp; can be removed

@shanebp good point about using the bp_send_private_message_link approach. Although you would avoid double buttons by using a translation file.

@henrywright-1
And how would you avoid double buttons due to this call in member-header.php?
do_action( ‘bp_member_header_actions’ );

@tayenewm
Use the provided apply_filters:

function tweak_button_label ( $args ) { 
	$args[link_text] = 'Something'; 
	return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_send_message_button_args', 'tweak_button_label', 1, 1 );

@henrywright-1
Don’t include the global if you aren’t going to use it.

actually you could make use of the bp_send_private_message_link function and do it like this:

<a href="<?php bp_send_private_message_link() ?>" title="Private Message">Private Message</a>

You can change the “Private Message” text to whatever you like. You’d just paste the code into your theme where ever you’d like the button to appear