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This SITE is such a confusing site. Become a buddy freak since mars and this site I cant understand. Where Am I? In a group or in a forum? In a private activity? When can I search for What?
Searching doesnt work and everything is SOO Old.
And Google points here all the time.
Just finding reply button isnt easy.
Bad for the wonderful Buddypress WordPress solution.

@raphadko
Groups only matter in forums and if you choose site wide forums you can get rid of groups all together. That has nothing to do with private message one on one conversations. This issue still seems to be lacking a bit of logic. A PM only goes to the person you send it to anyway so essentially it is a one on one conversation. Not enabling friendships means you really cant use any of the great friendship based plugins like @r-a-y ‘s Private Messages For Friends Only, or my own plugin BP FriendPress which shows a facebook like activity stream that is dependent on friendship.
Taking friendships out of the equation is only going to limit what you can control in the long run so I personally would suggest reconsidering your options.

You’d probably have to write some custom code (or hire someone to do it for you) to only accept two people in a PM conversation. Nothing like this out of the box.

@raphadko I don’t understand the logic behind this. Can you elaborate further on what you are trying to accomplish? .

Hi, recently worked on a datingsite, and a school intranet for BP and scanned 6 month of Getting BP private. Have a lot of notes -and one popped up when reading this post:

http://picklewagon.com/wordpress/new-user-approve/

“When a user
registers for the blog, the user gets created and then an email gets sent to
the administrators of the site. An administrator then is expected to either
approve or deny the registration request. An email is then sent to the user
indicating whether they were approved or denied. If the user was approved,
the email will include the login credentials. Until a user is approved, the
user will not be able to login to the site.”

Try this as a start – didnt remember if I have (Went trough TONS of solutions of reg process, but I saved this link so maybe its useful…), The fix might be to preserve the passwords somehow instead of autocreate them when aproved.

/ Maybe gonna share my solutions later for the BP datingsite – lot of privacy filters and hooks…

You are better off letting email go to user but remove the activation link. Create a function that hooks into member sign up to email you separately. I’m suggesting this because its better conversion for users to get the email.

`function email_admin_user_signup() {
//email admin code here
}
add_action(‘bp_core_signup_user’, ’email_admin_user_signup’);`

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/

@mercime Hey no problem. Just out of curiosity even though that plugin has not been updated, do you know if it works with the current versions of WP and BP? I know sometimes it just a matter of testing with the current versions and updating the readme.txt in the plugin to reflect it will work with them. Thanks again.
@tdempsey2012 if @mercime confirms the questions above this may help give a you a reason for friends on your site. Also you may want to check out the plugin BP FriendPress https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress-friendpress.zip . It allows you to show your friends and your own activity in the activity stream for your users like facebook does. The admin still see’s sitewide activity.
Edit:
@mercime @r-a-y @tdempsey2012 I just tested r-a-y’s plugin on my test server with the latest versions of WP and BP and its working as it should. Subscribers get denied sending a private message if they are not friends, and the admin can send a private message to anyone regardless of friendship. Is there a chance of getting @r-a-y to update the repository to reflect this plugin is still valid for the current versions of WP & BP? Thanks!

@shawn38 Apologies, no bug at all. It’s my bad, I forgot I have BuddyPress Message Privacy Plugin installed in all sites ever since There’s a free https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/ but it needs to be updated for current BP version.

@mercime I am using the latest versions of WP and BP and as you stated above `”Private Messages can only be sent to and received by Friends.”` I have found on my test server a possible bug if this is supposed to be the way it functions as stated above. The ajax auto fill in for the User/Friends name will work if you are friends, however it does not work if your not friends, but if you manually type in the users name even if your not friends the private message still goes through and is delivered to the person you are not friends with. Keep in mind these test users are subscribers only and not admins, so is this a possible bug? Thanks!

Let your users make friend connections so they can track the activity each other, and focus on the people they care about the most.

– @tdempsey2012 Private Messages can only be sent to and received by Friends
– Friends who are Group Admins can send invitations to friends to join the group created.
– All those who accepted your friendship request show up in the Friends tab of your Profile page and you can check out the activities of your friends.
– Of course, if you’re Super Admin, you don’t need to be friending everybody to send messages to one and all.

The simplest approach may be to surpress the “click here to activate your account” emails, and use something like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unconfirmed/ to manually activate them.

One option is to set the groups as “private”, not “public”. People can’t auto-join then.

The constant you refer to ought to work in BP 1.6+, it’s not been deprecated.

You do that in Settings > Privacy where you choose “Ask search engines not to index this site.”