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I’m not aware of a plugin that can do exactly that? Perhaps some of the guys on here know of one?

To do it manually, you could hook a function to init and work from there. For example:

function my_function() {

    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_current_component( 'messages' ) ) {
        // Current user is not logged in so don't let them see stuff. In this case, private messages 
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
        
    $flag = false;
    // Get current user info.
    $user = wp_get_current_user();

    if ( ! in_array( 'student', $user->roles ) ) {
        // The current member is not a student.
        $flag = true;
    }

    if ( $flag && bp_is_current_component( 'messages' )  ) {
        The currently logged-in member is not a student and is trying to view private messaging. Let's redirect them away.
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_function' );

From that, you should be able to see how you can achieve what you’re trying to do without the need of a plugin.

Refs:

Template Tag Reference

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect

Note to lazy people

Definetly using the orange search button on the top right corner of this forum mostly brings good advice. But YOU have to search a bit before asking ! 😀

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/making-buddypress-private/

More ?
https://buddypress.org/support/search/private/

Members are the heart of BuddyPress. When a user register on a BP activated site, this user is automatically a “member”.

So i guess “they are not registering for the site, just the members area” is just impossible. Don’t know what you already did to get a “private” member area, but if you have an issue, it’s mostly because you did something wrong. 😉

To confirm to readers what you already get to work:

To modify the registration page, on which appears the login fields belonging to WP (user, username, email & password), BP adds his own additionnal fields, under condition you activated the xProfile component.

By default, BP add only one field in the mandatory field group “Base”: NAME.

When the admin add a new field, he can choose between different field status, and depending this status, you will see phrase such as “This field can be seen by: “.

These settings are avaible in Dashboard > Users > Profile Fields

To create a member only site, I would highly recommend this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-private-site/

1.) For invites try: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/
To keep logged out visitors from accessing BP pages check out: http://bphelpblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/private-bp-pages/
Usernames can’t be changed and if you don’t want users changing their password you would need to custom code it unless you can find a code snippet on the forum or on the net.
2.) You can use filters and you can also try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/
3.) Use bbPress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/
You will have to search the plugins directory, the forums, and google the rest for your requirements unless someone else would like to take over where I left off. Hope this is at least a start. Good luck!

Here’s a snippet to filter members list based on profile field.

Remove your custom members-loop file first and revert to default one.

The example use field ID 62 with value = public
The field is called Privacy in xProfile and use a selectbox field type who shows 2 options: private and public.

You’ll probably also have to remove, or to conditionnally show, the top navbar, search box, etc in the template (childtheme/buddypress/members/index.php)

Add this snippet to bp-cutom.php.

class BP_Custom_User_Ids {
	private $custom_ids = array();
	public function __construct() {
		$this->custom_ids = $this->get_custom_ids();
		add_action( 'bp_pre_user_query_construct', array( $this, 'custom_members_query' ), 1, 1 );
		add_filter( 'bp_get_total_member_count', array( $this, 'custom_members_count' ), 1, 1 );
	}
	
	private function get_custom_ids() {
		global $wpdb;
		// collection based on an xprofile field
		$custom_ids = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT user_id FROM {$wpdb->prefix}bp_xprofile_data WHERE field_id = 62 AND value = 'Public'");
		return $custom_ids;
	}	
	
	function custom_members_query( $query_array ) {
		$query_array->query_vars['include'] = $this->custom_ids;
	}	
	
	function custom_members_count ( $count ) {
		$new_count = count( $this->custom_ids );
		return $count - $new_count;		
	}
}

function custom_user_ids( ) {
	new BP_Custom_User_Ids ();
}
add_action( 'bp_before_directory_members', 'custom_user_ids' );

Props @shanebp (tip on github)

Hi @callumoberholzer

BuddyPress allows you to have:

• member profiles
• an advanced member search (through the BP Profile Search plugin)
• private messaging

So it looks like your requirements are covered. My advice would be to set up a test install and try out all of the features to see if they meet your requirements.

Ah sorry, by PM I thought you may have been referring to public messaging (also known as @-mentions). Auto-complete should work on the private messaging compose screen too. Have you tested?

Short of giving your users extra hugs and re-assuring them that their WordPress usernames aren’t particularly private bits of data, you’re going to have to get your hands dirty. 🙂

It might be down to how the other plugin creates user accounts. Most plugins that allow sign-in using other services’ authentication systems (such as Facebook) don’t “properly” create WordPress user accounts; they use MySQL statements directly instead of using WordPress’ APIs.

This can cause problems with plugins that expect certain user record fields to be in a particular format (if some other plugin came along and just inserted something in a custom format in place). I am not saying that this is the case with this plugin, as I haven’t looked at its code, but I’ve seen this sort of thing before.

If you can create a test account and then go into your DB’s wp_users table and find your test user, and let us know what the values of the user_login, user_nicename, display_name fields are — and which one of these @mentions is using, and which one you would like it to use.

I built @mentions in the last BuddyPress release and while I’m not sure if it’s possible to get it to change how it behaves like this, understanding what you’d want different with real data from a test account will help us help you, and at worse, give a suggestion for ways we could make advanced customisations possible for this in future BuddyPress releases.

@pfriem
I have a premium plugin Private Community For BP that should do what you need if you are interested. You can ask any questions regarding this plugin you have here:
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@vernontessio,

it depends on how you use bbpress ! As standalone forum or as group forum.

If you use buddypress’s group forums, you create a hidden group which will be only seen by the members who belongs to it and nobody else.

If you use bbpress outside of BP as standalone forum, you can use Private Groups plugin.

Remember also that Everything in a BuddyPress community revolves around its members.

So you created a private group call ‘vip’.
And added a forum to that group via ‘[your-site-url]/groups/vip/admin/forum/’
And added some members to the forum via
wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-groups -> Edit – Add New Members

And those added members cannot see the vip forum listed when visiting
‘[your-site-url]/forums/’ – correct?

I’m pretty sure that since BP 1.9 such issues won’t happen (on a correctly configured install).

Private forums are…private and a topic posted in a private forum isn’t shown on the SWA. You can only see such an activity if you’re the author of the post (within (profile > activity) or on the private group.

To be clear, you’re asking
Is there any way to hide activity in private forums from activity stream?
and cite as example an old post titled
Private group posts appearing in Activity Stream to non-members.

Hum ? It isn’t the same context i guess. 😉
Do you want to hide private group activities or do you want to eliminate a wrong behaviour, like the second question relates to ?

Hi @pstidsen

It sure is possible but you’ll need to write a custom function to handle the behaviour. The hook you’ll need is messages_message_sent. It fires after a private message has been sent successfully.

Have you asked the BP Private plugin devs? Seems that you could edit their code to do a check of each required field. They’re probably only checking if a person is logged in.

if (!bp_is_my_profile() && !bp_custom_get_member_list_xprofile_data('Company') && !bp_custom_get_member_list_xprofile_data('Location'))

The unfortunate part of this is that check would have to be done on every page causing unnecessary processing time to every page load, unless you set a cookie or a single flag in the db. But then what happens if a user removes the information in one of the fields at a later date.

Overall I like the way it looks. There are however a view things that stand out: When resizing the window you get overlays and the menu start the look weird. The category archives look a bit untidy with the tag spacing and amount of non content space. On protected pages the sidebar under the login aligns to the left.

I really like the group and profile banner but the little sidebar looks a bit weird when logged out imo, perhaps there is more info when logged in?

The sidebar also looks weird on private groups in chrome: http://cultivators-forum.com/groups/seedism/

Overal looking great tho, nice example of how much you can do with theming BP.

@seeingblues2,

i just tested bp default data as super-admin on a 2013 theme. Normally, super-admin can go and do anything, huh ?

Went to the dashboard, opened one of the private group i’m not member of and added me as group member.
WHAT ?!!! The following users could not be added to the group ! Incredible !

Always from the dashboard, I created a new group. This directed me to the frontend where i registered my new group.

Back to the dashboard, and from the new group, i added 2 members without any problem.
Normal !

I reoppened the first group who haven’t accept my membership, and tried again. This time it worked.

I logged me out, cleared my nav cache, and retested by processing the same as previous within another group. Again i received the failure message. But i regisred my change and suddenly my name appeared in the group name…. Tried several more, with different behaviour. Sometimes it works immediatly, sometimes after a few seconds, sometimes not at all.

No idea what make this happen. Perhaps some latency issue because of the name suggestion tool ?
Maybe that the Default data plugin doesn’t handle this properly ? Maybe its the theme ?

I thought guess it’s a little bp bug.

Please open a ticket with some details and link to this topic.