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I realized that even though they are showing up as members in my user panel, they aren’t showing as members on the site – because I never approved them. So I think my friend who is not showing up as a member probably never came back and logged in so she’s in limbo – showing up as a member who registered, but until she comes back and tries to login, Private Buddypress doesn’t send the email to me to do the final approval that makes her a member on the site itself.

Thank you, I’ll try that. Another question: I have a member who shows up in the user list when I go to my Dashboard > Users. But when I go to the member section of the site they are not there. I tried re-setting her role and then setting it back in the User area but that didn’t do it. Not sure what to do. Maybe delete and have her re-register? Concerned it will happen again without my knowledge when I open for many memberships.

Another issue I’m having is that I installed Private Buddypress, which I know you said I shouldn’t since it isn’t compatible, but I can’t use BuddyPress if it isn’t private so I need the privacy. But every morning I check and there are several new members who somehow managed to register themselves as members when I have it set to need my approval. How can I avoid this? I just delete them, but when I have a lot of members, I won’t be able to manage that and pick them out so easily.

That’s exactly the plugin I’m using for it. From the start because I didn’t want to hard code.

You’re right! I tried it again and it didn’t show up! Not even for me! What’s strange is I had it set to private, then checked it again and it was listed as public, so I switched it back again :/

So, aside from making the activity feed the main page issue – everything else seems to be resolved at this point.

I am getting another error: when I post a comment on a forum discussion, I get this error message:

Page not found
We’re sorry, but we can’t find the page that you’re looking for. Perhaps searching will help.

When I re-load the forum discussion, it resolves it. Any idea how to fix it?

Okay, I activated the Private BuddyPress plugin and this now works for me. It didn’t work when I used the Activity page as my static home page, so that is still my issue.

Hugo, thank you for pointing that out. I was not aware of your forum protocol, I apologize. I should have used italics? I want to stress my point, but not shout 🙂

I have seen many posts here that have gone unanswered regarding the very same issues I’m having so I got the impression that patience wasn’t leading to any answers. I don’t mind being patient, I just really would like answers one way or another – it can be fixed or it can’t. With that information, then I can make a decision on whether I can use Buddypress/bbPress combo or not and move ahead.

Here is what I still need help with:

1. How to make the Activity page the static Home page and not get the 404 error when posting. Paul said this is fixed in the next release of Buddypress. Does anyone know when that release is and is there a workaround in the meantime that someone can walk me through?

2. Buddypress offers options to make a group ”Private” or “Hidden”

Both options claim: “Group content and activity will only be visible to members of the group.”

This is not true – everything I post in the “Hidden” group I created shows up in the public activity feed to a test user I created who is not a member of that group.  I need to be able to offer the secure knowledge of privacy in these groups to our users. Is there a way to truly make this information private and not be mortified when one of my users finds their private information on a google search?

Paul’s answer is unclear to me: “I am not aware of any bugs with your second issue; if the current user is a member of that private group, they have access to see its activity items on any page on your site.”

3. I would like to make the whole site private – accessible only after registration. I would like people to have to register and their registration be approved by me before gaining access to the site. Is this possible?

Thank you for any help.

Paul,

So does that mean I can’t have the Activity feed as my home page until the new release? Is there an ETA?

I setup a test user who *isn’t* a part of the private group (LivingCM nature group) and I was still able to see the comment that was privately posted in the private group on the MAIN Activity feed. Isn’t this a known issue?

Thanks for your response Chouf1

I set my homepage as a static page and used the Activity page as the homepage. I think that’s why it’s not working. It’s looking for /activity/reply, but it’s named ‘home’. Where do I change the url for the reply page? It doesn’t show up in Dashboard – Pages because it’s a BuddyPress theme page.

Ideally, I’d like a registration where I am sent an email, and then I approve them. This would keep the community private, rather than anyone and everyone self-registering.

The permalinks I chose are the postname option. That’s pretty standard on websites isn’t it?

thanks sir,, but where is Private Messaging and friends list pages sir ?? must download plugin again ??

For anyone looking for same snippet, put the following code in your functions.php

/*remove email addresses from private messages*/

function wdw_remove_email_from_private_msg($message){

$replacement = “[Warning: Contact removed]”;

/*if you dont want any replacement text, replace the above line with

$replacement = “”;

*/

return preg_replace(“/[^@\s]*@[^@\s]*\.[^@\s]*/”, $replacement, $message);

/*the code is short and works in most cases but not full proof. Check */

}

add_filter(‘messages_message_content_before_save’, ‘wdw_remove_email_from_private_msg’);

add_filter(‘messages_message_subject_before_save’, ‘wdw_remove_email_from_private_msg’);

OK, I looked into the code, and this is something I’ll need to go bring up on the bbPress forums as it’s an issue with the extend buddypress component of the bbPress plugin.

I opened a ticket here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2140. Hopefully this helps!

Can’t seem to get this working, I’ll just disable the ability to let people leave for now (so they can only be removed by admin). Doesn’t matter too much as the site is only private groups.

@mercime thanks for that.

But when I change the subject of the Activation Email it does not change anything. The subject is the same as before.

Also there is no option to send a welcome email. Only a welcome private message, which isn’t what I was looking for because I wanted to provide them with their username and password in the email (and obviously they’d need that to login and see the private message).

Is there any other ways to get this done?

update: verified all sites are set to permalinks “day and name”

verified “register” page in bp pages setup is set to “register” but the view link takes me to primarysite.com, not primarysite.com/register

and discovered the following error in the phpadmin, possibly the culprit, not sure:

Problems with indexes of table wp_PRIVATE_users

The indexes user_login and user_login_key seem to be equal and one of them could possibly be removed.