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We found a solution of a sort.

What you need to do is include an automatic private message send to all group members except the person posting the topic. This private message then gets hooked in to the notification system and lets the user know they have a new message.

Thanks, great job @dwenaus

For buddypress specific pages see this thread:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/private-community-with-public-wordpress/
For post and pages you could try this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-members/

This is a public help forum you shouldn’t really be soliciting private help, all help here is on a volunteer basis.

Have you actually bothered to contact Continuum author yet as has been suggested once or twice now? It has been strongly suggested that it is actually a theme issue so it is down to the theme author to try and help really.

We can try and help but frankly have probably exhausted the limits to which we can.

On the duplication issue, there was another thread in which this was happening so I suspect that there is a common cause involved that is being induced by some themes – an extremely long shot but there have been occasions where members loops duplicated odd members this nearly always resolved down to Caching plugins, you shouldn’t be running any until such time as thought necessary on a production site but in case you are deactivate them.

@modemlooper I have installed the Buddypress 1.7. Before I installed it, I was having problem with sending Private Message, so I was hoping it will be resolved. However, the problem still persist. When my users and I send a Private Message, it indicate message: No data received…..Unable to load the web page because the server sent no data. Yet the user receives it. I have deactivated all my plugins except buddypress still I encounter the same problem. I change my theme to bp-default theme, yet the problem still persist. I even uploaded a non-buddypress to take advantage of the 1.7 feature but the problem still persist.

I am at my wits’ end here. Please can you help or suggest an approach for me.

Shalom

Also, how can I hide the Activity pages etc. until the user loggs in?

Read my reply in the following thread to accomplish this.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/private-community-with-public-wordpress/

@bphelp I do believe I have it now. Yes, my butchered theme that I’m learning on was sending off errors. I enabled the BP-Default Theme and we’re good. I have the BP navigation tabs going to the Sample Page.

I knew you had it right, but I didn’t understand and I didn’t know my theme was causing errors. I use this site for practicing, then I implement the changes that work back to my new site: http://www.gumpolen.com

Thanks,

Kevin

That sounds more like your theme is shooting off errors. Try activating the bp-default theme and see what happens. also make sure there is no extra lines before or after the opening and closing php tags in the bp-custom.php

did you add the code to the bp-custom.php you create in yoursite/wp-content/plugins? did you remember to add the code between opening and closing php tags and save the file? I have it working flawless on wp 3.5.1 and bp 1.7 beta 1. for example this line:
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/register’ );
redirects to register page
you could for example change it to something like this:
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/sample-page’ );
that would redirect to the sample page.

@bphelp I missed my greater than sign in starting out the page. Now your code doesn’t show, but when I log out, i get an error across the top of the screen instead:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/*****/public_html/inlandcoder/wp-content/themes/frisco-for-buddypress/members/index.php:12) in /home/*****/public_html/inlandcoder/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876

@bphelp I tried this and when I refreshed my site, all of your code appears below the admin bar on my site — above my header.

I created a new page and named it “new page here.”

Here’s your code with my info:

function bp_guest_redirect() {

global $bp; if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() /*|| bbp_is_single_forum()*/ || bp_is_forums_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) { // enter the slug or component conditional here if(!is_user_logged_in()) { // not logged in user wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/new-page-here’ ); } // user will be redirect to any link to want } } add_filter(‘get_header’,’bp_guest_redirect’,1);

Am I to insert my URL as well? I tried with and without changing it and that didn’t work either.

Kevin

It stripped the code again. Just place this between opening and closing php tags in the bp-custom.php file:
`
function bp_guest_redirect() {
global $bp;
if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() /*|| bbp_is_single_forum()*/ || bp_is_forums_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {
// enter the slug or component conditional here
if(!is_user_logged_in()) { // not logged in user
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/register’ );
} // user will be redirect to any link to want
}
}
add_filter(‘get_header’,’bp_guest_redirect’,1);
`

the above reply stripped out the code so hopefully this will print out!
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create a file named bp-custom.php that you will then place in yoursite/wp-content/plugins folder after you paste the following code in it:
`

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Just change the /register in the line :
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/register’ );
to the page you want the logged out user to be directed too!
I found this somewhere on the net so props to whomever coded it!

to install the buddypress 1.7 plugin beta and it still not working.

@jimah for BP 1.7 beta 1, go to Settings > BuddyPress > Components and enable (check) Private Messaging and Save.

this is what i have for my bp-custom.php file:
`<?php

function restrict_access(){
global $bp, $bp_unfiltered_uri;

if (!is_user_logged_in() &&
(
BP_MEMBERS_SLUG == $bp_unfiltered_uri[0] ||
BP_GROUPS_SLUG == $bp->current_component ||
BP_BLOGS_SLUG == $bp->current_component ||
‘forums’ == $bp->current_component ||
is_page_template(‘website here’)
)
) {

bp_core_redirect( get_option(‘home’) . “/private/” );

}
}

add_action( ‘wp’, ‘restrict_access’, 3 );

?>`

@xsci This is a year old thread and discusses an issue relating to BP 1.5.1;  BP is about to release version 1.7.

Please open a new thread, describe the issues you are having and what versions of BP / WP  you are using and please test any issues you are having are not custom theme related by dropping back to the bp default theme

Greetings,

Has a patch been created for this yet? I’m not the programmer and would love an easier way to update this.

Cheers!

Teresa

Why not just use groups as a “region”, make them all private

@sbrajesh Thank you for this one! 😉

But I have another question, imagine I wanna to put the messages box (compose, reply, etc) in the side bar on a profile page only. As I saw, each instance of the private message comes with a url, like

Compose …/compose

Reply …/reply etc.

Could you point me for a possible solution?