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Hello guys

What I used is:
– BuddyPress with combination of either bbP private groups plugin or Members plugin or Restrict Content Pro – bbPress plugin
– I created extended BuddyPress profile fields in registration
– I restricted access to the forum with one of above mentioned plugins
– I used my code mentioned in the beginning

How it looks like:
– my code works like a charm! once you choose User1 type in registration, it applies subscriber role, User2 subscriber as well, contributor for User3 – THIS WORKS.
– what does NOT work is restriction via plugins. Have no clue why. With members plugin od pivate groups, I set Forum1 to be accessable ONLY to User3 type of user, but User1 and User2 can access too! Why?! It has nothing to do with my code, after registration you can clearly check it in WP Users that the role has been assigned.

If I knew hot to restrict access to the forum based on the WP Role, my code would be sufficient to solve this. Can you help with that part?

@youmin – are upi saying in BB 2.2 access to forum based on the WP role is fixed?

@style960 there are two problems with that plugin. One, it does not integrate with the filter drop-down box and two, it does not search contents of private groups.

Not searching in private groups is a more severe drawback.

Any suggestions on rectifying the problem? Any other solution?

@buddyboss

but the tab to see all of their Likes is only available to them for privacy reasons.

In BP-buddyboss river, everyone can see what I have liked – so it is not private. Default BP does allow to see other users’ Favorits in the Favorit tab in Profile page – why does Buddyboss kills this? At least site admin should be able to turn it on or off.

Wall does not have every FB feature,

buddypress-activity-plus allows to post link, video etc quite nicely and is thus more user-friendly than the premium Wall plugin, imho. There is also a plugin by Brajesh that allow front-end blog posting via BP

Buddyboss is never meant to load every plugin but if a chosen few are bundled, it will be really good rather than re-inventing wheels at premium plugins, features of which are already available in the WP-BP repo. If users like us see thay they are well integrated into the Buddyboss look and feel there can be more sales of the Buddyboss theme actually.

We may make a spam solution at some point in time. This is a tricky one. Every solution you make only works for a bit, then the spammers figure out your tactic and update

Let wp com users at least post to pre-sales and/or free discussion forum. You can do this via jetpack

a member sent me the same private message 4x within the same thread.

i’d like to remove all but one of the messages and respond.

it would be goofy to respond to the 4th message instance — because the message is exactly the same.

so, ideally, i would remove instance2, instance2, and instance4, leaving instance1 and the keeping the thread in tact.

Thanks for the feedback, bp-help. We didn’t use your plugin. There were others we used (especially BuddyPress Private Community) and some BP hacks.

The BP team and the plug developers all seem like great folks, and the community is friendly and active. Have spent a lot of time with vids of their presentations. Like the product, like the people, but the privacy of closed communities is critical. The question is still out there:

Is it actually possible to create a members-only community with BuddyPress 2.1.1. and multi-site WP without hacking BP?

Hi Henry

I went to ‘plugins’/buddypress/settings, and found the following (I note that “account settings” is not ticked – could this be it?)
I have bolded the ones that are ticked currently.

Settings:

Component Description
Component Description
Extended Profiles Customize your community with fully editable profile fields that allow your users to describe themselves.
Account Settings Allow your users to modify their account and notification settings directly from within their profiles.
Friend Connections Let your users make connections so they can track the activity of others and focus on the people they care about the most.
Private Messaging Allow your users to talk to each other directly and in private. Not just limited to one-on-one discussions, messages can be sent between any number of members.
Activity Streams Global, personal, and group activity streams with threaded commenting, direct posting, favoriting, and @mentions, all with full RSS feed and email notification support.
Notifications Notify members of relevant activity with a toolbar bubble and/or via email, and allow them to customize their notification settings.
User Groups Groups allow your users to organize themselves into specific public, private or hidden sections with separate activity streams and member listings.
Site Tracking Record activity for new posts and comments from your site.
BuddyPress Core It‘s what makes time travel BuddyPress possible!
Community Members Everything in a BuddyPress community revolves around its members.

I’ve found by myself 🙂

To send HTML private message, you must add :
[
edited – Please use the ‘code’ button when you post code.
Please note that removing that filter creates a major security risk.
It means user input WILL NOT BE SANITIZED.
So some very bad things can happen to your database.
]
remove_filter( 'messages_message_content_before_save', 'wp_filter_kses', 1);

To the bp-custom.php file.

I hope it will helps !

Hello Henrywright,

Thanks you for your response.
I tried what you advise me, nothing works 🙁

When I sent with WP-Mail-SMTP, it’s what I have. Maybe that can give you more informations:

The result was:
bool(true)
The full debugging output is shown below:

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  string(5) "5.2.7"
  ["Priority"]=>
  int(3)
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  string(5) "UTF-8"
  ["ContentType"]=>
  string(10) "text/plain"
  ["Encoding"]=>
  string(4) "8bit"
  ["ErrorInfo"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["From"]=>
  string(19) "club@ufpcyclisme.fr"
  ["FromName"]=>UFP Cyclisme"
  ["Sender"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["ReturnPath"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Subject"]=>
  string(45) "WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to k44@gmail.com"
  ["Body"]=>
  string(68) "This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin."
  ["AltBody"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Ical"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["MIMEBody":protected]=>
  string(69) "This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin.
"
  ["MIMEHeader":protected]=>
  string(349) "Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:21:33 +0000
Return-Path: 
From: UFP Cyclisme 
Message-ID: 
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.7 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
"
  ["mailHeader":protected]=>
  string(78) "To: k44@gmail.com
Subject: WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to k44@gmail.com
"
  ["WordWrap"]=>
  int(0)
  ["Mailer"]=>
  string(4) "mail"
  ["Sendmail"]=>
  string(18) "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
  ["UseSendmailOptions"]=>
  bool(true)
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  string(0) ""
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  string(0) ""
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  string(0) ""
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  string(0) ""
  ["Workstation"]=>
  string(0) ""
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  int(10)
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  bool(true)
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  string(4) "echo"
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  bool(false)
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  bool(false)
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  array(0) {
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  bool(false)
  ["AllowEmpty"]=>
  bool(false)
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  string(1) "
"
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  string(0) ""
  ["DKIM_identity"]=>
  string(0) ""
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  string(0) ""
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  string(0) ""
  ["DKIM_private"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["action_function"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["XMailer"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["smtp":protected]=>
  NULL
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  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    array(2) {
      [0]=>
      string(18) "kgodin44@gmail.com"
      [1]=>
      string(0) ""
    }
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  ["cc":protected]=>
  array(0) {
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  array(0) {
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  array(0) {
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  array(0) {
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  array(0) {
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Sorry, I couldn’t think this way.

I had in my mind that maybe a company would like to create a private community, so it would make sense to select “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” but without losing the feature of updating the activity stream…

Well, still doesn’t make sense to me to consider it a feature but that’s just me 🙂

OK, thanks. I should clarify that by respond, I don’t mean comment, I mean send email to the original poster, i.e. if someone had an item for sale and the person wanted to send them a private email about it.

Hi Shane, I’ve gone a different route, hoping to avoid adding user IDs everytime a new Board Member joins the BP site.

From a support request, I discovered that I could exclude or include roles to display in the members loop by adding the following code to the members-loop.php. For the private BP site, using the Members plugin, I created a new role, “bod_member” and reassigned the few members this role. I then added the following code to include only the bod_member…

<?php while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member();
$user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );
if ( $user->roles[0] == 'bod_member' ) :
?>

Unfortunately, upon saving the file, the site returned a parse error, referencing the code below:

<?php endwhile; ?>

The error begins with “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘endwhile'”

Am I doing something wrong?

🙂 Eric

Thanks for the prompt response, Shane.

Yes, only the alphabetical sort displays all MS users. The issue is that the BP site is a private Board of Directors site, while the other sites are maintained by users that are employees and have no business showing up as members of the private BP site.

There are only 12 board members that are BP users vs. 100+ employee users for the other sites.

Any idea of how to write the filter?

🙂 Eric