@raminjan know that we are all unpaid volunteers helping out here, living in different time zones and have lives outside of BP and WP.
You have created many number of topics, some of which I answered and other topics were answered by others. And private messaging is turned off because others have abused it already.
BuddyPress is an opensource software, i.e., free and we try to help out as many people as we can, not just one. And when I was still a student, I recall doing my own research (Google et al) when I didn’t know the answers. So be patient and stay cool.
Would the ‘private’ group type work for you? It’s not trivial (or maybe even possible) to add a new type of group privacy without serious work.
OK, better question, anybody successsfully deactivate their BBpress forums and successfully activate the buddypress sitewide for forums? I am using worpress 3.4 + Buddypress 1.5.2 and here is an example of my site from the bbpress install:
http://privateenglishportal.com/forums/
I wouldn’t trust anything reported by a automated scanner, how does it know what is being done to sanitize user data?
WP has a range of functions available to deal with data sanitization, as BP is built by a core team extremely familiar with WP functions and best practises and including a WP employee amongst them it follows that all best practises for handling data are adhered to.
If you think not then you will probably need to run a few more tests that are known as reliable and report your findings directly and privately to one of the core BP team.
In 1.6 beta 2 https://buddypress.org/2012/07/buddypress-1-6-beta-2/ there is a facility to restrict visibility of profile fields to —-> Anyone, Logged In Users or My Friends.
In addition there is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-privacy/ for earlier versions of buddypress. This can restrict visibility of profile fields to —-> Everyone, My Friends, or Only Me
I’m interested too. Some users might want that.
If you are using the bp-default theme —
All you have to do is login, visit someone’s profile, and the send message buttons are there
Ok, in that case can you point me at the documentation to make it happen. i ahve not found getting round the codex that easy, probably me being dense but if you can ahelp that would be great,
Thank you
BuddyPress supports private messaging ‘straight out of the box’ by default (‘send message’).
Do you mean ‘instant messaging’?
Had to set my wordpress timezone to UTC, Save Settings, and then set it back to my timezone offset and now it is working.
Haraldo, there is nothing wrong with your install, there is NO built in way to message all users in BP. The site notification will merely place a widget type notice at the top of your sidebar for all logged in users, which thy can then choose o close. It isn’t emailed or passed as a private message.
There are a couple of old plugins for this such as: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-mass-messaging/screenshots/
It’s an option that is useful, HOWEVER, I would strongly recommend you export your users to CSV. Again export plugins are available and import people into a 3rd party email service like Mailchimp.
This is far better for email marketing, however in itself is a bit tricky, as unless your members have signed up or opted into a list, it’s technically breaking the T&C’s of all 3rd party mail apps.
The problem with sending email direct from your server is if you get people unwittingly or deliberately labelling your mail as junk/ spam in clients like hotmail, yahoo and gmail, the ip address of your server can get blacklisted.
At that point NO mail at all from your server is going to get through to those services, not just for the accounts that labelled you as spam but your server will be blocked and mail won’t reach anyone with a hotmail address etc.
Sounds dramatic but it could kill your community if you aren’t careful.
You should always use a 3rd party.
Rules are still incredibly stringent though. You are generally allowed one spam complaint in every 1000 emails sent.
Hope that helps!
Also, It says that the groups “Activity Stream” can be made separate, but I still see it on personal streams.
Friends should. On these blogs — is the Privacy setting set to public or private? i.e. this screen https://codex.wordpress.org/File:options-privacy.png
They need to be public (‘allow search engines to index this site’) for it to be shared in activity.
Also, the reason I was using the ‘Groups’ plugin was soley so I could have group exclusive content and nothing else. I can sets all kinds of nice access and permissions rules, but there is a disconnect between the plugin’s features and the built in groups feature of BP, so the results fall far short of desired. 
Hi bollocks187-
I was just a little confused how groups was intended for use within WordPress/BuddyPress. To give you some insight as far as where I’m coming from, I’m moving from a Groupsite environment. In that environment, you can have ‘x’ number of groups. The groups can by hidden just like in WP/BP, but can have their very own content exclusive to them, which is hidden from non-members of that group (as expected). Likewise, members of a given group can communicate freely between each other. I was looking for a feature set within WP/BP that mimicks that behavior. The other thing missing is a peer recognition feature- kind of like a way for one user to endorse another. (another Groupsite feature). Think of this as a kind of letter of recognition from one user to another, so anyone visiting the endorsed member’s profile would see a senior member/administrator endorses/vouches for/recommends that user. I’ve been working with a messload of different plugins with varying levels of success/failure (far more failures than successes) and was getting a little frustrated -iterative testing to ensure a new plugin doesn’t break existing working plugins and trying to determine the UI for a new plugin since it’s often a sorely overlooked feature for so many developers.
I’m now looking into the possibility of using groups forums to address some of what I want to do, but am hoping that by doing so, it won’t confuse end users by having them try to contend with two separate types of forums – one open and public, and the other being ‘x’ number of private instances, one for each hidden group.
Just jumping in out of the blue.
Why would you need “yet” another Plugin for Groups when you already have a groups feature in buddypress out of the box. Even if you can disable the “group forums” feature that kind defeats the purpose of having a group in the first place.
Unless of course itthinx is not happy with the Buddpress Groups capabilities hence the “groups” plugin. Also why would the Buddypress team want to accommodate an interact with a feature they already have – especially a plug in that has a few thousand downloads. Just askin 1
Thanks Paul-
Okay, so that begs the question- what are groups used for within WordPress/BuddyPress? If you deactivate forums, there’s not much left. You can’t contact just the people in that group. And I’m still looking for a good plugin to handle making content pages exclusive to certain groups. I’ve tried ‘Groups’ by itthinx, but there is a big disconnect between the actual BuddyPress groups and the groups within the ‘Groups’ plugin. So if I have a pre-existing group, the ‘Groups’ plugin doesn’t recognize it. If I name an existing group within the ‘Groups’ plugin, there is no members associated with it (since it is treated as a new group, but that can only be accessed via the plugin) so security doesn’t really apply. Any light you can shed on this would be appreciated.
Thanks 
No, it’s not (out of the box, anyway).
Checking back in- my original post got lost several pages in the jumble and I hadn’t heard anything. Anyone have any feedback about PMing groups?
Sounds like you’re might have found a bug. Please would you make a report on http://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org ? thanks
Thanks. I had an old plugin — wordpress private. Switched to Private Buddypress. Works now.
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/**
* Instantiate the admin bar object and set it up as a global for access elsewhere.
*
* To hide the admin bar, you’re looking in the wrong place. Unhooking this function will not
* properly remove the admin bar. For that, use show_admin_bar(false) or the show_admin_bar filter.
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Many Many thanks. Thrilled to bits.
