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Probably also worth noting that everything works fine for logged in users. We are specifically looking to have the blog accessible to non-logged in users, and the community private (only logged in members have access).

Hi there,
So I’m using this plugin on WP 3.8 and BP1.9.1 and hsving a little difficulty. Tried a couple things here to make a private community before finally finding thi plugin that actually works – thanks.

Question : how do I have a public blog, with a private BP? I entered the blog as one of the unblocked pages, however the blog does not show up. Can you help?

Thanks.

i believe the blog posts are actually handled by wordpress (usually by re-assigning or deleting post by your choice). everything else besides private messages i believe get erased along with the user.

@ubernaut The problem is internal broken links – the activity stream might have items in it that aren’t removed that point to a user’s profile. Then there are manual links user’s have posted themselves – @-mentions in activity updates, in activity comments, in blog comments, in blog posts, and inside private messaging threads. The list is quite endless. To my knowledge, there’s no set way of dealing with these remains after an account has been deleted.

I opened a thread a few days ago in an attempt to perform some housekeeping after a user deletes their account. Didn’t get any responses so I put the idea on hold temporarily.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/housekeeping-after-delete-acount/

Hi @johnjamesjacoby

http://www.helpmemove.ca/wordpress/

That is the website I am developing. It is a WordPress single site. Basically I need admin to be able to see conversations between members in the activity stream or see the private messages between members.

Using the BP Activity Privacy plugin I can set the activity stream option to “admin only” as a member, but this stops the member I mention from seeing the message!

I need the admin to see conversation between a “member1” and “member2” whether it be via activity stream or private messages, but other members should not be able to see it.

Basically only admin, member1, member2 need to be able to see a conversation. Wondering if there is any way to do this!

Thanks,
Adam

Hi @meginfo,

I tried adding that to my functions.php but it doesn’t show the messages. I am also using activity stream privacy but here is my situation:
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Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way to set the privacy level to allow mentions to be seen only by the people involved in the conversation and the admin.

For example, while testing the plug-in I set the privacy level to “admin only” and as the admin I sent a message to a subscriber level member.

However, the person gets a notification they were mentioned, but can’t see the message itself.

Is it possible there is a setting or way to have it so only the people mentioned and the admin see the message?

So if member1 mentions member2 I require both members AND the admin to be able to see that message, but no one else, whether it be from activity stream or private messages.

Thanks very much for your time and help,
Adam

I need this functionality on my website. How does admin see the private messages in BuddyPress?

Well there is nothing much to it.

If you understand what BuddyPress is, you know it needs to active a few components – you can decide what components you want to activate when you activate the BuddyPress plugin.

Let say if you don’t want private messages then don’t activate it. If you like your member to message each other you should activate.
Only if you activate components you need to create WordPress pages to show those components – simple right?
BuddyPress plugin helps you do that and creates those pages for you, you can save those default pages or change them to other pages.
Lets say you want your Groups not to show up on the example.com/groups/ page but at the example.com/community/ page then you can do so by just changing the name of that groups page.

Normally every WordPress theme should be able to handle the BuddyPress plugin just fine because BuddyPress uses the default WordPress templates to show all the BuddyPress pages.
But if you have an older WP theme or a very complicated WordPress theme you can get into some troubles of course.
There are some WordPress themes that are made for specific fields like photographers or portfolio websites those themes are often made just to target those fields of work and don’t need social media integrations.

It sounds like you’re heading in the direction of a private community. Keep in mind that if it’s private, then search engines can’t index your content. Which may be good or bad, depending on your goals.

You’ll find a lot of info by searching this support forum or the web for “buddyPress private community”

For instance:
https://buddypress.org/support/tag/private-community/

Only members of a private group can see the content

Hi BuddyPress support,

I am having exactly the same problem. My website is http://plantswap.com.au – buddypress 1.9 with WordPress 3.8 install.

All Private Messages sent twice.

I am not using any other chat or PM plugins.

Cheers,
Henry

I use this plugin for that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/

“Makes BP pages private and only accessible to logged in users with the exception of the pages you set.”

> Without joining a group,can you post under that group on BuddyPress ? Is there any chance of it ?

If a group is public, you can post, but it’ll also automatically join the user to that group when they make that post. I don’t think there’s a way of mixing group permissions with posting permissions.

What type of group did you make? Public, private, hidden?

Not that I know of although it is easily done. You could query the activity table to find all entries related to a particular entry. How you define related will determine your query. For instance, you could query by action (new private message, new member registration and so on) or you could query by component, date recorded and so on

Hi Barry, it sounds like you’re not clear on what bbPress and BuddyPress are exactly. So let me try to clarify it for you.

bbPress is a plugin for wordpress which provides you with forum functionality. And because it comes from the same folks who created wordpress, it works great with wordpress and other WP plugins.

BuddyPress is a plugin for wordpress which provides you with a social network functionality. What does that mean? Well, imagine facebook, myspace, or any other social media platform – they have profiles, people can create and fill in their userpages, people can message other people privately, they have an activity page which shows their activity on the site, etc.

bbPress and BuddyPress are two totally different plugins but they work together and can be integrated with one another. But if you want to use just one of them, you can. You do not need to run both.

I’ve tracked down the video I think you refer to:
http://labsecrets.com/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

And I can clarify that for you as well. BuddyPress used to have its own way of creating forums, called “BuddyPress Group Forums”. But that functionality is deprecated because the developers decided to rely on bbPress rather than duplicate it within BuddyPress. So the latest version of BuddyPress doesn’t have group forums but instead relies on bbPress.

It all depends on what you are trying to do. What you are seeing in “the two forum apps merging to become one” is simply a deep integration between them so IF people want to use both, they can do so with ease and get the fullest functionality out of that combination use.

It sounds like you want a forum. If that is the case, forget about BuddyPress and just use bbPress.

Hope that helps!

@1missrodnee
Yes there is a work around, on line 37 in private-community-for-bp-lite.php you will see:

if ( !is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page()  

Change that line to this:

 if ( !is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() && !is_home()

The && !is_home() inclusion will free up your home page! Good luck! 🙂

@1missrodnee Have you checked out https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/ ?

@sooskriszta I am not sure I follow. Is the suggestion that each user has a number of nested private groups? that *would* be one way to define relationships, but… pretty clunky, no?