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Or if you would like a quick and easy plugin solution I offer a couple of premium plugins for that. http://bphelpblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/private-bp-pages/
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Yep you’re meant to be able to see pages like that and like activity stream, BP is not intended on being a private community out of the box, securing pages is pretty easy though; try searching the forum please as it’s been discussed many many times.

Loving Buddypress 2.1.1. My only big request would be with regard to Private messaging:

1. Allow users to ignore (silently block) users from private messaging them. For example, if you receive a PM from a user you do not wish to converse with (troll, spammer or some other form of harassment) you can simply click “ignore” or “block” to block this user(s). The offending user is not made aware of this and future PM’s send by this person are simply not seen by the recipient while keeping the offender unaware.

Users can edit their block/ignore list to remove/add users from it.

2. Provide site admins the option to prevent users from PM’ing multiple users at the same time.

That’s pretty much it. A simple request that would have a positive impact IMO. Looking forward to the next release. TThanks.

I’m still new to buddypress. I’m wondering if this thread might be close to what I need. I don’t want to get any new user notifications sent to me (my admin email address). The notification I get shows the new user’s email address. I want email addresses to be private and drop into some kind of database that I can later use to send newsletters to. Anyway to fix that?

Thanks

I’m not aware of a plugin that can do exactly that? Perhaps some of the guys on here know of one?

To do it manually, you could hook a function to init and work from there. For example:

function my_function() {

    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_current_component( 'messages' ) ) {
        // Current user is not logged in so don't let them see stuff. In this case, private messages 
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
        
    $flag = false;
    // Get current user info.
    $user = wp_get_current_user();

    if ( ! in_array( 'student', $user->roles ) ) {
        // The current member is not a student.
        $flag = true;
    }

    if ( $flag && bp_is_current_component( 'messages' )  ) {
        The currently logged-in member is not a student and is trying to view private messaging. Let's redirect them away.
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_function' );

From that, you should be able to see how you can achieve what you’re trying to do without the need of a plugin.

Refs:

Template Tag Reference

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect

Note to lazy people

Definetly using the orange search button on the top right corner of this forum mostly brings good advice. But YOU have to search a bit before asking ! 😀

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/making-buddypress-private/

More ?
https://buddypress.org/support/search/private/

Members are the heart of BuddyPress. When a user register on a BP activated site, this user is automatically a “member”.

So i guess “they are not registering for the site, just the members area” is just impossible. Don’t know what you already did to get a “private” member area, but if you have an issue, it’s mostly because you did something wrong. 😉

To confirm to readers what you already get to work:

To modify the registration page, on which appears the login fields belonging to WP (user, username, email & password), BP adds his own additionnal fields, under condition you activated the xProfile component.

By default, BP add only one field in the mandatory field group “Base”: NAME.

When the admin add a new field, he can choose between different field status, and depending this status, you will see phrase such as “This field can be seen by: “.

These settings are avaible in Dashboard > Users > Profile Fields