BuddyPress.org

Thanks for the feedback, bp-help. We didn’t use your plugin. There were others we used (especially BuddyPress Private Community) and some BP hacks.

The BP team and the plug developers all seem like great folks, and the community is friendly and active. Have spent a lot of time with vids of their presentations. Like the product, like the people, but the privacy of closed communities is critical. The question is still out there:

Is it actually possible to create a members-only community with BuddyPress 2.1.1. and multi-site WP without hacking BP?

Hi Henry

I went to ‘plugins’/buddypress/settings, and found the following (I note that “account settings” is not ticked – could this be it?)
I have bolded the ones that are ticked currently.

Settings:

Component Description
Component Description
Extended Profiles Customize your community with fully editable profile fields that allow your users to describe themselves.
Account Settings Allow your users to modify their account and notification settings directly from within their profiles.
Friend Connections Let your users make connections so they can track the activity of others and focus on the people they care about the most.
Private Messaging Allow your users to talk to each other directly and in private. Not just limited to one-on-one discussions, messages can be sent between any number of members.
Activity Streams Global, personal, and group activity streams with threaded commenting, direct posting, favoriting, and @mentions, all with full RSS feed and email notification support.
Notifications Notify members of relevant activity with a toolbar bubble and/or via email, and allow them to customize their notification settings.
User Groups Groups allow your users to organize themselves into specific public, private or hidden sections with separate activity streams and member listings.
Site Tracking Record activity for new posts and comments from your site.
BuddyPress Core It‘s what makes time travel BuddyPress possible!
Community Members Everything in a BuddyPress community revolves around its members.

I’ve found by myself 🙂

To send HTML private message, you must add :
[
edited – Please use the ‘code’ button when you post code.
Please note that removing that filter creates a major security risk.
It means user input WILL NOT BE SANITIZED.
So some very bad things can happen to your database.
]
remove_filter( 'messages_message_content_before_save', 'wp_filter_kses', 1);

To the bp-custom.php file.

I hope it will helps !

Hello Henrywright,

Thanks you for your response.
I tried what you advise me, nothing works 🙁

When I sent with WP-Mail-SMTP, it’s what I have. Maybe that can give you more informations:

The result was:
bool(true)
The full debugging output is shown below:

object(PHPMailer)#5937 (69) {
  ["Version"]=>
  string(5) "5.2.7"
  ["Priority"]=>
  int(3)
  ["CharSet"]=>
  string(5) "UTF-8"
  ["ContentType"]=>
  string(10) "text/plain"
  ["Encoding"]=>
  string(4) "8bit"
  ["ErrorInfo"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["From"]=>
  string(19) "club@ufpcyclisme.fr"
  ["FromName"]=>UFP Cyclisme"
  ["Sender"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["ReturnPath"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Subject"]=>
  string(45) "WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to k44@gmail.com"
  ["Body"]=>
  string(68) "This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin."
  ["AltBody"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Ical"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["MIMEBody":protected]=>
  string(69) "This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin.
"
  ["MIMEHeader":protected]=>
  string(349) "Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:21:33 +0000
Return-Path: 
From: UFP Cyclisme 
Message-ID: 
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.7 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
"
  ["mailHeader":protected]=>
  string(78) "To: k44@gmail.com
Subject: WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to k44@gmail.com
"
  ["WordWrap"]=>
  int(0)
  ["Mailer"]=>
  string(4) "mail"
  ["Sendmail"]=>
  string(18) "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
  ["UseSendmailOptions"]=>
  bool(true)
  ["PluginDir"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["ConfirmReadingTo"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Hostname"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["MessageID"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["MessageDate"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Host"]=>
  string(9) "localhost"
  ["Port"]=>
  int(25)
  ["Helo"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["SMTPSecure"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["SMTPAuth"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["Username"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Password"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["AuthType"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Realm"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Workstation"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["Timeout"]=>
  int(10)
  ["SMTPDebug"]=>
  bool(true)
  ["Debugoutput"]=>
  string(4) "echo"
  ["SMTPKeepAlive"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["SingleTo"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["SingleToArray"]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["do_verp"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["AllowEmpty"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["LE"]=>
  string(1) "
"
  ["DKIM_selector"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["DKIM_identity"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["DKIM_passphrase"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["DKIM_domain"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["DKIM_private"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["action_function"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["XMailer"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["smtp":protected]=>
  NULL
  ["to":protected]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    array(2) {
      [0]=>
      string(18) "kgodin44@gmail.com"
      [1]=>
      string(0) ""
    }
  }
  ["cc":protected]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["bcc":protected]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["ReplyTo":protected]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["all_recipients":protected]=>
  array(1) {
    ["k44@gmail.com"]=>
    bool(true)
  }
  ["attachment":protected]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["CustomHeader":protected]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["lastMessageID":protected]=>
  string(50) ""
  ["message_type":protected]=>
  string(5) "plain"
  ["boundary":protected]=>
  array(3) {
    [1]=>
    string(35) "b1_c85d5f49caeb8fcb01e07b2d5aa70e6f"
    [2]=>
    string(35) "b2_c85d5f49caeb8fcb01e07b2d5aa70e6f"
    [3]=>
    string(35) "b3_c85d5f49caeb8fcb01e07b2d5aa70e6f"
  }
  ["language":protected]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["error_count":protected]=>
  int(0)
  ["sign_cert_file":protected]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["sign_key_file":protected]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["sign_key_pass":protected]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["exceptions":protected]=>
  bool(true)
}

Sorry, I couldn’t think this way.

I had in my mind that maybe a company would like to create a private community, so it would make sense to select “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” but without losing the feature of updating the activity stream…

Well, still doesn’t make sense to me to consider it a feature but that’s just me 🙂