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I am having the same issue. The regular WordPress search box will not display any content from my Groups page. I think it is hilarious that when I go to create a group, under settings the public and private options say that group content will show up in search results. I have tried relevanssi and that didn’t help.

Imho, it is a debatable issue. Is the software/program designed such as to allow the admin to read PM only if there is a complaint ? Is it explicit in the terms and conditions that admin can read PM in which case some users may not like to register?

An user should have initial ways of blocking another harassing users like ello.co does rather than admin jumping into read PMs. In some countries it may be illegal or serious breach of privacy issues. Then there are much “grey” areas as to what is “drama” or what is a “legit” complaint.

Also see this and this.

@vitamincee
As @henrywright mentioned that is by design. Otherwise how would you be able to solve issues between users as an admin if one of your users complains that another user is sending harassing private messages. If you was locked out of viewing the private messages as an admin then you really couldn’t determine if its a legit complaint or someone just causing drama.

Hi @vitamincee

As an admin, you have access to your member’s private messages. That’s by design. Why would you want to restrict access to anything for an admin account?

@aymanomar85
@mentions works for me using the latest WP/BP, twenty-fifteen theme, Private Community For BP plugin, and BuddyPress Identicons plugin. Very basic setup for myself so you will need to provide more info on your setup so others can help. 🙂

I seem to believe that groups are only usable by its members and therefor also any group forum.

Public only means that the group will be listed and viewed by the public, only mebers of those groups can actually post on their forums.

Better make a regular forum with that name where all can post, and have a sticky post for people to join the actual group to start topics in their “private but publi” forum.

At least that is what I think, but I might be wrong.

Hi @matthias70

Private messages can be sent to multiple recipients. The field you mention is for entering more usernames to send the message to.

hi @abhimanyubind,

i’m not developer, but i think th e answer is yes.

For example, to allow admin to receive a copy of messages sent by users

function arc_wp_mail_filter( $args ) {
	
        $args['headers'] = 'Bcc: <admin@yoursite.com>'; 

	$new_wp_mail = array(
		'to'          => $args['to'],
		'subject'     => $args['subject'],
		'message'     => $args['message'],
		'headers'     => $args['headers'],
		'attachments' => $args['attachments']
	);
	
	return $new_wp_mail;
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail', 'arc_wp_mail_filter' );

Here an old topic with a similar question and answered by our core ninja’s.

Hope this will help you !

Hey,

@shanebp as I understand it, your plugin serves as sort of a ‘blacklist’ where you can block any user in a variety of ways. Have you considered making it the other way around? Whereby ALL other users were blocked from sending a Public or Private Message *unless* the User clicked on a button that added the other user to a ‘whitelist’?

If the user B clicked on a ‘Message’ button, they would be precluded from sending a message to User A unless User B had already been whitelisted by the recipient/User A. Maybe with the attempt generating a prompt to User B to submit a whitelist approval request to User A.

Maybe something like this already exists?

Something for consideration. Thoughts?

Thanks.

@buddies
If after following Hugo’s advice does not resolve your issue then place the below snippet in bp-custom.php

function bphelp_members_page_private_redirect() { 

if ( bp_is_members_component() ) {

	if(!is_user_logged_in()) { 
		bp_core_redirect( get_option('home') . '/register' );
	} 
}
}
add_filter('template_redirect','bphelp_members_page_private_redirect',1);

Good luck!

This is a question for S2 Member then and you should check it’s extensive documentation on how to block pages, if that proves unsuitable for your purposes then check back here and people can point you in the right direction to write custom functions to make pages private.

@bphelp does this also stop public groups from displaying in your activity stream if you are not a member too?

the reason i ask you this bphelp is because remember the old plugin you was working on (i think it was a fork of some code rich fuller posted a few years ago) which was named “activity-privacy-component” ? you left it on github and described it as a jurrasic plugin because of the new plugin “buddypress activity privacy plugin”.

Well that very same “Jurrasic plugin” still works very well today and is still far far far more superior at keeping your stream private compared to the plugin you said was better.

The only one thing that the old “activity-privacy-component” plugin doesnt do is keep the public groups you are not a member of from out of your private stream.