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That should not be an issue whatsoever with 2 John Smiths, two should should up and you click on whichever one you want. Most people I know actually deactivate the activity system. When they message the private message by clicking on profile, most communities are not the type everyone knows everyone, its actually the other way around, those types are in minority and buddypress seems to cater to them.

Its actually a very simple solution, implement an option, with username and another one first and last name.

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.