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Hi James, Here is an example code

http://pastebin.com/WA2rBjvH

You are right about the url part 🙂

Ok, forum does not allow me to post the html code.

After including the above code, you can use this function bp_custom_get_send_private_message_link to get the appropriate url.

Here is a simple solution. You will need to add following lines to your theme’s functions.php or bp-custom.php

`

/**
*
* @param int $to_id the user id to whom we plan to send the message
* @param string $subject : if you want to specifuy a predefined subject
* @param string $message: any predefined message
* @return string: link for sending message
*/
function bp_custom_get_send_private_message_link($to_id,$subject=false,$message=false) {

//if user is not logged, do not prepare the link
if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;

$compose_url=bp_loggedin_user_domain() . bp_get_messages_slug() . ‘/compose/?’;
if($to_id)
$compose_url.=(‘r=’ . bp_core_get_username( $to_id ));
if($subject)
$compose_url.=(‘&subject=’.$subject);
if($message)
$compose_url.=(“&content=”.$message);

return wp_nonce_url( $compose_url ) ;
}

//for auto populating message content
add_filter(‘bp_get_messages_content_value’,’bp_custom_message_content_value’);
function bp_custom_message_content_value($content){

if(!empty ($content))
return $content;
$content=$_REQUEST[‘content’];

return $content;
}

//for auto populating message subject

add_filter(‘bp_get_messages_subject_value’,’bp_custom_get_messages_subject_value’);

function bp_custom_get_messages_subject_value($subject){

if(!empty($subject))
return $subject;

$subject=$_REQUEST[‘subject’];

return $subject;

}

`

and then, you can use following in your code to send the user with id:2 a message as

`
<a href="”>Send Message to xyz

`

hope that helps.

Hi @James,

I’m also looking for a solution like this and haven’t found so far. I believe I’ll have to hard code it. If I come to a solution I’ll post here!

thousands of private social networks within my site

Sure. Not everything’s out of the box so one can only be limited by skillsets and server.

Ahh, I wanted to achieve something like this as well. Like you, I’m using S2members (which I absolutely love – lets you hide/text menu items, text, posts, pages, downloadable content ect based on user role).

This is what I’ve done: For the registration process I’m using BAW invitation codes. Users need to register for a health course (using Event Espresso), and in the confirmation email they recieve an invitation code they can use to log in and access course materials.

I am looking to do the same thing and installed WP-Members. I find that it allows me to moderate members signing up which is great, but even though I have it set to block all pages and posts from non-members they are still showing. I’m using the BP default theme.

Anyone have suggestions?

Here is the site – http://forums.saintelia.com/

Given that you’re using a premium theme with customized forum templates, it would be guesswork . to help you with the styles aside from the fact that the site is private. Since you have access to the site, I suggest using Chrome where you can right click on the Topic tile and Inspect Element. The developer console would show up and highlight what you need to change.

you may found these kind of information in the language pot file

#: bp-messages/bp-messages-template.php:657
msgid “Private Message”

#: bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php:2430
msgid “Public Message”

etc

functions.php ?

@fordp The @DCraft11 account looks like it has all the proper capabilities. Are you able to log into Freenode server in IRC and join #buddypress-dev to privately message more information back and forth?

@modemlooper any news on this? I just switched one of my groups from private to public and lost all of its content.

This field is required. If you don’t want a user to have to enter something then you have to hide it and fill it in for them.

I did not test this but go into the theme folder members/single/messages/compose.php

find this:

`<input type=”text” name=”subject” id=”subject” value=”<?php bp_messages_subject_value(); ?>” />`

change it to this:

`<input type=”hidden” name=”subject” id=”subject” value=”private message” />`

@johnjamesjacoby, @modemlooper,

one of you decided finally to erase my contributions to the codex. Well ! I invited you to do so if necessary.
But a private message explaining me your decision would have been appreciated, but it isn’t the case.

Also, who is responsible of the Codex ? Didn’t know that Ryan is the codex chief editor !

This tread is also unhelpfull at least.
The tips & tricks page is still nested with 1 tuto page, despite the tech explanation above.

And with this on the customize page, i’m very doubtfull too
Customizing

This page has no content of its own, but contains some sub-pages listed in the sidebar.
(between other nested pages “tips & tricks”…)

Please edit this page and add something helpful! (and probably nested pages too, no ?)

I thought I was right by adding my tips, even if not on the same page as “Tips – Tricks – Code Snippets” by misunderstanding the existing nesting which is not to use finally ! Sorry for my ignorance of this detail.

Support users are not code snippets, but real humans. Your method and reaction are simply unbelievable !
Be sure i’m discouraged and that i don’t add anything to the codex in the 100 next years. 🙁

Dan

Hi there… I’ve racked my brain over a very similar issue. I’m wondering if you had any luck finding the answer?

This is what I’m seeing.

1). From what I can tell (I used shared hosting), the Centos Linux box that hosts my site has the date/time set correctly.

I asked them to issue the date command and send the result. What they provided was the result when logging into the box via SSH. i.e. “Sun Jan 27 10:45:24 CST 2013”. The server is hosted somewhere in the CST timezone, and the date/time was correct at the time this info was sent.

2). I am in the EST time zone. My WP general/settings/timezone is set to Montreal.

3). When I publish a WP Post (for example) everything is fine. The “published on” date/time is correct (in local / EST / Montreal time). In fact, everything to do with straight WP date/time related handling is fine. BuddyPress is a different story!

4). BuddyPress: When someone sends a private message, the time on the received email is one hour behind. I assume this can be explained by the CST server time and the EST timezone I’ve chosen in WP Settings/General/timezone. I can live with this – Or could change the timezone to the server timezone (chicago / CST).

This is where it gets interesting.

5). BuddyPress: When somebody creates or adds to a topic in BuddyPress Group Forum, the date/time is also correct. i.e. “username said n seconds ago” is 1 second after the update is made. OK.. But, the corresponding Activity entry shows 5 hours and 1 second ago. i.e. 5 hours in the past!

Looking at the Activity Table record via phpMyAdmin, the date is stored in GMT (i.e. + 5 hours as I am in EST).

Looking at the Topics Table record via phpyMyAdmin, the date is exactly the same – i.e. stored in GMT.

So, when the forum topic is displayed, it’s doing a proper conversion from GMT to local time (-5), but the Activity Stream page seems to be doing the conversion twice, and I end up with -10 hours from the stored time in GMT.

6). BuddyPress: Of course, when somebody just posts something to the activity stream, it always shows up as “username said 5 hours and n seconds ago” also. i.e. a -10 conversion from the stored db time which is in GMT.

7). BuddyPress: Finally, when looking at the Activity via WP Admin, the date/time on each entry is straight out of the DB – i.e. GMT time – No local time conversion at all!

So in Summary:

Server setting for date/time is ok
Straight WP handling of date/time is ok
date/time is stored at the DB in GMT in all cases
date/time is converted properly based on timezone for the BuddyPress Group forum topic itself (-5)
date/time seems to be converted twice (-10) for the corresponding BuddyPress Activity Stream record as seen by the end user
date/time is not converted at all when viewed via WP Admin. i.e. it is straight GMT

If anybody can make sense of what’s going on, I’d really appreciate it! I’ve looked through everything I can find and just cant figure this out.

Best regards,
Mike.

NOTE: Maybe it’s not good that I added to this post? It’s a similar problem, but not exactly the same. I can create a new post if that’s best.

If BP FriendPress does this

BP FriendPress is a BuddyPress plugin by Shawn38 that makes BuddyPress specific pages private so logged out users cannot view BP pages making more of a private community.

I think (but it hasn’t been updated for long time) https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/ this could work.

Now I’m using it as it and it’s working for me.