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mine says define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);

and script_debug is not found in my wp-config.php

With my issue, I am not getting any error message, and there is no error message on the server either. When I try to change a profile photo using BuddyPress, it just does not allow me to change it. It kind of “blinks” instead of bringing up the crop screen.

Similarly, when I try to send a private message in BuddyPress, it lets me compose the message, but when I try to send it, it “blinks” with no error message but does not send the private message. The private message disappears and does not go into my sent folder, either.

thank you @mercime I did try the 2015 theme after deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress, and same issue. Yes I can upload images and see thumbnails with 2015 theme and with my BuddyBoss theme. I still have the problem with profile images not working. I also have a new issue where private messages no longer work from inside BuddyPress. I am hosted with inmotion.

Hi @minglonaire,

The forum part is easy because that is built into bbPress in the first place. If you read the “Getting Started with bbPress” page https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ you will note that there are three settings for forum visibility:

Public – Anyone can see these forums
Private – Only logged in registered users can see these forums
Hidden: Only Moderators/Admins can see these forums

I made my base forum (which is actually a category) Private, and the majority of sub-forums Public – but tied into the BuddyPress groups so you required membership to each particular group to access each of the forums. This only works if BuddyPress is hidden from logged out users.

If you don’t want to use BuddyPress groups… just make all your forums Private.

Note that BuddyPress defines Public, Private and Hidden slightly differently than bbPress

I had issues with my theme not displaying Hidden Groups to the people it should… If this is an issue for you, check out another thread… https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hidden-groups-and-forums-not-showing-for-members-of-them/

All the best! 🙂

Good news everyone. My theme developers and I have solved this issue on the theme I am using!

The first tricky hurdle was discovering a !important directive in the main.css of the theme for handling .hidden so I removed it to become .hidden{display:none;visibility:hidden} so styling in my child theme would work.

In my child theme, I did an ‘inspect element’ to discover that the hidden groups were listed as:

<li> class='odd hidden is-admin is-member">_</li>
<li> class='even hidden is-admin is-member">_</li>

So, I added the following code to my style.css in the child theme

.odd.hidden.is-admin.is-member {
display: block;
visibility: visible;
}

.even.hidden.is-admin.is-member {
display: block;
visibility: visible;
}

This worked for admin, but not members of the groups who weren’t admins so… Logged in as one of those and using ‘inspect element’ I found that private groups were listed as:

<li> class='odd hidden is-admin is-member">_</li>
<li> class='even hidden is-admin is-member">_</li>

Applying the same logic as above, I added the following code to my style.css

.odd.hidden.is-member {
display: block;
visibility: visible;
}

.even.hidden.is-member {
display: block;
visibility: visible;
}

And now everything works 🙂

I don’t know if anyone at BuddyPress support can help tidy up my code, but it does the trick and I hope it helps you @bewitchingfiction @donalconlon @olay And thanks for your help @danbp

Hello @Henry Wright
Yes Im redirected to compose message, but I want is the recipient will automatically added to send to fields like when you go to someone’s page then clicked the Private Message.

Anyway, thankyou so much!

Thanks for the advice. Do you know how I could allow groups to choose if their forum is public or private?

I did play with creating a post for a group, then pulling in that posts comments / comment form to the group page. I guess if it automatically created a post for each group when a group is created it could work.

Thanks for the Reply. I also contacted the Theme Developer.

I was wondering if perhaps someone here could tell me where the Private Messaging files/code were in the Core Plugin folder.

In any case, Thanks

Actually, it won’t even show if i make the forum private. The forum has to be public for me to see it.

Hi @danbp, Thanks for joining this discussion.

When I first looked into running BuddyPress on my site a couple years ago, Hidden groups did appear for members of them as outlined by BuddyPress. However, this is no longer the case.

Yes, members can access them if they have the URL for the Hidden Groups’s activity stream…

Yes, members can access them via the forums…

BUT hidden groups do not appear to members of them, moderators, admins or keymasters in any of the group directory pages or member/user profile pages or menus which link to ‘All Groups’ or ‘My Groups’. However, the group count increases to show the number of all groups, be they public, private or hidden.

From https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

List of Groups created in the site including time active stamp, group description, number of members and group privacy setting. Only Public and Private Groups are seen in list by regular members. Super/Site Admin sees all groups including Hidden groups. – NOT working

My Groups… List of Groups you are a member of – Public, Private and Hidden (only by you and Super Admin) – NOT working

Is this what you are experiencing @bewitchingfiction?

Hi @bewitchingfiction,

I tried it on some of the default WordPress themes and couldn’t get it to work… and it no-longer works on the previous theme used two years ago when I first configured BuddyPress on our site.

My suggested work-around for you until someone is able to get it going again would be to create a password-protected or private page in WordPress for your mods to chat via the comments function. If you use a plugin that allows menu items to only be shown to mods, then no one will know the page even exists.

I use Nav Menu Roles to manage the visibility of menu items on my site. Unfortunately, it’s not compatible with my theme’s menu… so every time I want to add or change a menu item’s visibility, I have to change to another theme to use it , then change back. Clumsy, but it works! https://wordpress.org/plugins/nav-menu-roles/screenshots/

Hi @donalconlon,

Have you tried going into the group via the back-end instead of editing them from the front-end? This works on my site.

From the Dashboard, select Groups then edit the group you wish to change.

In the Discussion Forum box in the right column, below the Settings box, tick the box Yes, I want this group to have a forum. Then, if you click in the Group Forum: selection box directly below that says (No Forum) A list of all your existing forums (public, private and hidden) should appear for you to select from. Click Save Changes and it should be working.

If you aren’t familiar with the back-end editing or groups, you might be interested to know that you can Add New Members to the group and Manage Member roles here too. Those parts are directly below the Name and Description box. If you can’t see any of these options, you might have to select screen options in the top right and tick their selection boxes to get them to show below.

Hope this helps!