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I need a pages for members that will let them send each other messages

if you enable BP’s Private message component, the built-in message system will let each user send message to other members.
https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/messages/

Except if i misunderstood you, i don’t see the utility to add an extra page for this.

Depending of which plugin you use to manage events, a subscribe to event page is most probably included in the plugin.

If messaging and event are your only need, you’re going overcomplicated for the moment. The only thing you have to do, i think, is to install correctly a theme and to check that BP is showing properly on it.

Once done, you can eventually customize the theme. But only if it doesn’t fit exactly with a event plugin. For the messages, if BP is ok, messages will be also ok.

Foundation first. The house after and the wallpaper at the end of the end !

1) no
2) https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/loops-reference/the-private-messages-loop-bp_has_message_threads/

Template Overload from a Plugin

bbPress side of things https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2599

The workaround (for now until fixed) would be to verify the bbPress forum visibility and then to also run the bbPress repair tool “Recalculate private and hidden forums” to ensure meta data integrity.

oh I see: you are very picky ! 😉
The only way to be notified is this setting page (under the condition you activate BP’s private message component). And as you can see, there is no possibility to forward message.
On front or on back end.

As an admin on our site, I am left with tons of unnecessary work when I need to forward messages to my mods from a user.

I’m a little stuned why you receive user messages if they want to contact a mod in fact. If you do unnecessary work, i would suggest you find a better handling method first. But i maybe wrong and this point is more subtle as i understand it here.

Anyway, this is your really specific BP usage. And so far i know, it is not a very common usage. BP cannot respond to absoulte any user usage. No software can do so.

As site admin, i never encountered any problem to contact the site members. And i never needed to create a friendship first to contact any of them. This action is only used when you want to invite members to join a private group.

So if you think you’re right, you’re free to ask for an enhancement on the Trac. If the devs will consider your demand as justified, you can begin to hope to receive satisfaction one day.
If not, or if you don’t want to wait, you’re free to develop your own solution.

Of course i disagree with this opinion:
It was most certainly not designed with efficiency on mind.

IMHO it’s better as nothing. Imagine one second that BP had no messaging system… The actual maybe rustical, incomplete or not responding exactly to your need, but would you be efficient enough to find another free and so powerfull software as BP is ? 😉

My Questions:
1. Has anyone experienced a similar issue?
> probably, with 2,208,785 downloads !

2. Does it appear to be a bug or am I mis-interpreting a functionality?
> probably 2 nd option

3. Any workarounds?
> next tree 3 steps back, enter the forest and run 500 yards and check under the oak.

When a group is setup, you choose to make it public, private or hidden. Depending on this status, the activity will be shown or not. Details of this are explained on the group creation page.

• For a public group, all activities are public. Group is listed on group directory.
• For a private group, all activities are private and only be visible to members of the group. Group is listed on group directory.
• For a hidden group, any thing is masked except for the group members. Group is not listed on group directory.

If you create a private group the 3 of may 2014, his activities are registered to the bp-activities tab from this date with a status of “private”.

The 17 august 2014 you decide to modify the group status from private to public.
From now on, the group is considered as public and any activity generated in the group after this date will be considered as public.

In a few words, private activities are/and stay always private and public activities are always public, independantly of the group status.
And the activity feeds don’t look back in the past.

Hope to be clear. 😉

Hi @akovia,

each logged in user has access to his profile settings. Eg. on the top right user menu (howdy…)
or on the buddybar under the profile header.

/membres/xxxx/settings/notifications/

Settings > Email
Once on this setting page, each user can decide for what he want to receive an alert.

But it is an emailed notice he will receive, not the complete message.

This messaging system is intended to work internally. This means the content of the message stays on the site. BP eventually sends only a reference to the content. Eg. xxx send you a private message (site url), not the full message.

Screenshot:

Private Messaging works like an internal site email. Members can message people on their friends list as well as forward and reply to received messages

@bphelp I see the reference to forwarding in that article but am not certain forwarding functionality is available. Perhaps @djpaul can confirm?

@ bp-help:

The links don’t work anymore:

http://shop.taptappress.com/downloads/category/plugin/

https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp

Actually I’m searching a plugin, that allows to change the sequence of the profile tabs (I would like to start with “Profile”, and not with “Activity”).

You could take a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/
It allows you to make all pages/posts private by default. You can (optionally) exclude upto 10 pages/categories to show to the logged out visitors.

@semperfideles
You could try:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/
Full disclosure I wrote the plugin but you can check it out and see if it fits your needs.

Or you could try a plugin like: https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/

@sbampfylde,

in other words, you want to change the landing tab when visiting one of these groups.

Each group screen as his own search filter. So if you are on the group forum screen, you see the forum activity filter. When you are on the group members screen, you see the group members search filter. And so on…

So no matter about filtering, if you bring the visitors to the right screen as soon as they arrive on the group, they get the correct filter.

FYI function is theme dependant and bp-custom is completely independant from bp updates and will work even if you change your theme.
Here’s the code you can use (in functions.php or bp-custom.php)

function bpfr_custom_group_default_tab($default_tab){
	/**
	 * class_exists() is recommanded to avoid problems during updates 
	 * or when Groups Component is deactivated
	 */
	if ( class_exists( 'BP_Group_Extension' ) ) : // 
	
	$group=groups_get_current_group();//get the current group
	
	if(empty($group))
	return $default_tab;
	
	switch($group->slug){
		
		case 'Public Events': // group name (slug format)
		$default_tab='members';
		break;
		
		case 'Private Investigations':
		$default_tab='members';
		break;
		
		case 'another group':
		$default_tab='admin';
		break;
		
		default:		
		$default_tab='home';// the original default landing tab
		break;
		
	}
	
	return $default_tab;
	
	endif; // end if ( class_exists( 'BP_Group_Extension' ) )
}
add_filter('bp_groups_default_extension','bpfr_custom_group_default_tab');

Add or remove the “case” part into the switch to your needs. Don’t forget to modify the groups name to yours.

@foresme
What membership plugin are you using? Have you tried:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/
Full disclosure I am the plugin author.