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like I said all that header info breaks page when you try to do a redirect before page load. You can always do a javascript redirect but that is after page load and not any faster than using one of the plugins. You maybe able to remove the header comment text.

Custom page templates will break whenever you add a filter to get_header because of the page template header info. This is really not a BuddyPress issue. There are other ways to redirect the page but they will work just like any plugin. The reason they maybe slow to redirect is because they redirect after page load so you are waiting on header and content.

Try this, add code to bp-custom.php but not the add filter line, then in header.php before anything else add:

<?php bp_communituy_redirect(); ?>

function bp_communituy_redirect() {

	if( !is_user_logged_in() && $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] != '/community/' && !is_home() ) { 	
		wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/community/'  ); exit;
	}
		
}
add_filter( 'get_header','bp_communituy_redirect', 1 );

You’d find the basic information about BuddyPress components at https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-components-and-features/

Limiting the number of groups which can be created by user is plugin territory https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-groups-per-user/

@tduschei
By default the front page you set in dashboard/settings/reading is not blocked. To un-block a page with a url like this for example: http://your-site/sample-page/
You would go to dashboard/settings/privatecommunitybp and in one of the unblocked page fields you would only need to enter: sample-page because it already gets the rest of the url dynamically. Make sure to save it at the bottom. For you to see how it works you would have be logged out of course. Good luck!

aha not front page but site wide sidebar… its ok, thanks for trying tho…

Sorry, I think I misunderstood your question from the beginning. You’re not trying to display topics on the front page of a group. You’re trying to show topics on the site’s front page? If so, what I’ve talked about won’t help at all. 🙁

In looking into bbPress, I can’t really see how a particular forum is associated with a group. So I’m afraid I’m not going to be much help. Maybe someone else knows more about bbPress’s group forum integration?

cinematix* http://themeforest.net/item/cinematix-buddypress-theme/4959387

i’m using a premium theme, cinimatix…

if i remove the “if bp_group_is_visible” conditional it works fine but shows all topics… i didnt try the second conditional bc its not even reading the group id..

That’s too bad. A couple of questions I should have asked at the beginning:

1. What theme are you using?
2. If you remove the conditional we added, does bbPress return topics for the correct group?

it shows a zero 🙁

Put this before the code we’ve been talking about, and see what it displays on the page:

$test_id = bp_get_current_group_id();
echo 'The current group ID is:' . $test_id;

If it returns a number besides zero (zero means that it can’t figure out which group is the current group, a non-zero number is the current group ID), then you could probably adjust the conditional code:

if ( bp_group_is_visible( bp_get_current_group_id() ) ) {
//do the topics loop here
}

Fingers crossed.

it doesnt work as in: no posts show up at all :/

it is on the sidebar… how would i pass the group_id and give bbp_topics access… pretty much a noob here, sorry…

thanks in advance!

When you say it didn’t work, do you mean that people who should see the topics couldn’t, or that no one could see the topics, or that everyone could see the topics? Was it too generous in letting people through or did it keep everyone out? 😉

Also, could it be that this is this being used in a sidebar? I’m wondering if the placement on the page means that the group context is not certain, so you’d need to pass the group_id into bp_group_is_visible. Although I’d expect the bbp_topics to need to access the group_id as well.

i tried using the code you provided but nothing i tried worked… the latest forum topic is a widget so i tried putting it around the widget but that of course didnt work…

so i dug deeper and found the template for the actual link and wrapped the code around that and it didnt work either 🙁

the widget code: http://pastebin.com/cWrRkF1H

the mytopics code: http://pastebin.com/PxJGi76N

the single topic code where i put the code you provided: http://pastebin.com/X8VuwWpe

not sure where else to put it…

any help would be appreciated, thanks!

You should be able to wrap your bbp_has_topics output in a conditional like:

if ( bp_group_is_visible() ) {
//do the topics loop here
}

bp_group_is_visible checks to see if the group is public or private, and if it’s public, returns true. If not public, then it checks to see if the user is a member of the current group; if yes, it returns true. It’s located at /bp-groups/bp-groups-template.php -> line 377.

function bp_group_is_visible( $group = false ) {
 378      global $groups_template;
 379  
 380      if ( bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) )
 381          return true;
 382  
 383      if ( empty( $group ) )
 384          $group =& $groups_template->group;
 385  
 386      if ( 'public' == $group->status ) {
 387          return true;
 388      } else {
 389          if ( groups_is_user_member( bp_loggedin_user_id(), $group->id ) ) {
 390              return true;
 391          }
 392      }
 393  
 394      return false;
 395  }

@jais-p removed the extra posts 😉

Thank you for posting back with your solution. Cheers.

@asdevargas
I removed the github version in favor of using the version in the official WP repository which has been improved. You can get it here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/