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https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-do-i-make-buddypress-1-6-a-private-community/#post-136021 ?

Do you have plugins other than BuddyPress installed? If so then try disabling each one until you find the offender.

Simpler way is to install wordpress access control, this adds a option to every page to make it avalible to be viewable by only vistitors, logged in users and even has a age control on it, you can all set a redirect page incase somone types in the url as this will also remove any page which is hidden from the viewer type from the menu, check it out its awesome

Try my plugin here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-friendpress/ see this is what your after. After installation, and activation go to dashboard/settings/ bp friendpress and change the setting to current user / friends activity. Just be aware it also make buddypress specific pages private so only members can view them. make sure to read the readme.txt regarding group forums or sitewide forums and make changes appropriately. If you do not want the buddypress specific pages private you can go in the bp-friendpress.php file and comment out the part that says “The walled garden.” Hope this helps!

Good call to everyone’s post on this thread. We develop online communities as opposed to social media networks. Our site members do not want a media feature. Yet it would be great to see it integrated into a future BP release. Maybe, private groups can have the option of using it?

Eric

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-do-i-make-buddypress-1-6-a-private-community/#post-136021 ?

does anyone know if this plugin works well with current versions of bp or if there’s an alternative? i swear i read something about 1.5 having throttle settings but i couldn’t find anything looking around.

I’m having this same problem; I don’t know how it started, but threads are getting assigned IDs for deleted threads where the recipients are still in the database (same problem that was found in this trac entry https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3971)

I don’t really want to hack the core to fix it, I’d rather just do a SQL query to delete any recipients for threads that don’t exist. Are there any caveats in doing this?

Ooh, I just discovered that all the old messages don’t have a thread assigned, but they should! This happened during an upgrade from a much older version… I wasn’t involved in that process, so I don’t know quite what happened. I think I can reassign the messages their thread number by looping through the thread message_ids… Is it possible to do that with a SQL query or do I have to use PHP to get the IDs out of the array?

This must be why the new messages started assigning low value thread numbers. Does the new thread take it’s ID from the thread table or the messages table?

I use this PlugIn: http://bp-tutorials.de/2010/09/private-buddypress

It’s not updated since a long time but it still works fine for me…

You could create an empty text file called /wp-content/plugins/walled-garden.php, paste the following into it, then activate the plugin:
`
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Buddypress Walled Garden
Plugin URI: http://www.example.com/
Description: A brief description of the Plugin.
Version: 0.1
Author: http://www.example.com/
Author URI: http://www.example.com/
License: A “Slug” license name e.g. GPL2
*/

function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;

// if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_page( BP_FORUMS_SLUG ) || bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) )

if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_page( BP_FORUMS_SLUG ) )
return;

if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )

bp_core_redirect( bp_get_signup_page() );
}

add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );

function bp_remove_feeds() {
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_personal_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_friends_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_mentions_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_favorites_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘groups_action_group_feed’, ‘groups_action_group_feed’, 3 );
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘bp_remove_feeds’);

?>`
Tested in bp 1.6.1

The plugin should not have spaces, blank lines, or anything else before “ and use a simple text editor ( like this ) rather than a wordprocessor….

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To have a different menu for logged in users is slightly more complicated.

You need to find the template bit that shows the menu.

In the current bp-default theme header.php file is the following
`
false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ‘bp_dtheme_main_nav’ ) ); ?>
`
which can be replaced by
`
<?php
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ” ) );
} else {
wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘secondary-menu’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ” ) );
}
?>
`
Then create the secondary menu in the wordpress menu admin…..

Please backup files and database before trying this out in case there are complications. It would be better to try out on a test/dev site first …..

WPMU.org recently had a nice writeup on something similar: http://wpmu.org/how-to-build-a-facebook-style-members-only-wordpress-buddypress-site/

You can used my child theme its only for the BP-Default theme it adds this functionality.
http://ezwebdesign.wordpress.com/free-stuff/

You can used my child theme its only for the BP-Default theme it adds this functionality.
http://ezwebdesign.wordpress.com/free-stuff/

@mairaj

– Create a bp-default child theme -> https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
– Copy header.php from bp-default theme to your child theme folder then remove the search div from the header.php in you child theme folder
– Create a Page Template -> https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates and add the code your deleted from header.php replacing the_content tag and upload to your child theme folder in server
– Pages > Add New and title it whatever you want then choose the template in sidebar then make it private, Admin can access that page anytime.
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@ultimateuser – Ron’s BP Multi Network plugin works with WP Multi Network or their Networks+ plugin, but a third option to create networks is Networks for WordPress which is similar to WP Multi Networks but was last updated more recently in May 2012 – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/networks-for-wordpress/

I just upgraded to BP 1.6 and found that I can’t post activity status updates on a private network anymore using BuddyDev’s BuddyPress Multi Network plugin http://buddydev.com/buddypress/introducing-buddypress-multi-network-plugin-create-multiple-separate-social-networks-on-a-single-buddypress-install/ , but maybe it’s me. I might check out Ron’s plugin again to see how it does with BP 1.6

What did you end up using?

in researching this I installed the WP jQuery CDN Plugin and it is set as Google Ajax API jQuery CDN
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-jquery-cdn/

This appears to resolve (temporarily) the problem

I hope that this helps

Hi .. I think I am having the same problem

I am running Buddypress 1.6 and WordPress 3.4.1

I am finding the Add Friend feature is not working and the reply to message functionality (when I try and reply to a message it isn’t working.)

When I click on Add friend it just appears to remove the button and the friend pending button doesn’t appear and it doesn’t active the friend request

When I try and reply to a message I type in the message and click on the send reply and it just clears the message window.

I am not sure how to uninstall/remove the CDN version of jQuery. Can you please point to some instructions on how to do this?

Try uninstalling / removing your CDN version of jQuery so it reverts to WordPress’ version of jQuery. See if that fixes things.