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I use this plugin for that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/

“Makes BP pages private and only accessible to logged in users with the exception of the pages you set.”

> Without joining a group,can you post under that group on BuddyPress ? Is there any chance of it ?

If a group is public, you can post, but it’ll also automatically join the user to that group when they make that post. I don’t think there’s a way of mixing group permissions with posting permissions.

What type of group did you make? Public, private, hidden?

Not that I know of although it is easily done. You could query the activity table to find all entries related to a particular entry. How you define related will determine your query. For instance, you could query by action (new private message, new member registration and so on) or you could query by component, date recorded and so on

Hi Barry, it sounds like you’re not clear on what bbPress and BuddyPress are exactly. So let me try to clarify it for you.

bbPress is a plugin for wordpress which provides you with forum functionality. And because it comes from the same folks who created wordpress, it works great with wordpress and other WP plugins.

BuddyPress is a plugin for wordpress which provides you with a social network functionality. What does that mean? Well, imagine facebook, myspace, or any other social media platform – they have profiles, people can create and fill in their userpages, people can message other people privately, they have an activity page which shows their activity on the site, etc.

bbPress and BuddyPress are two totally different plugins but they work together and can be integrated with one another. But if you want to use just one of them, you can. You do not need to run both.

I’ve tracked down the video I think you refer to:
http://labsecrets.com/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

And I can clarify that for you as well. BuddyPress used to have its own way of creating forums, called “BuddyPress Group Forums”. But that functionality is deprecated because the developers decided to rely on bbPress rather than duplicate it within BuddyPress. So the latest version of BuddyPress doesn’t have group forums but instead relies on bbPress.

It all depends on what you are trying to do. What you are seeing in “the two forum apps merging to become one” is simply a deep integration between them so IF people want to use both, they can do so with ease and get the fullest functionality out of that combination use.

It sounds like you want a forum. If that is the case, forget about BuddyPress and just use bbPress.

Hope that helps!

@1missrodnee
Yes there is a work around, on line 37 in private-community-for-bp-lite.php you will see:

if ( !is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page()  

Change that line to this:

 if ( !is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() && !is_home()

The && !is_home() inclusion will free up your home page! Good luck! 🙂

@1missrodnee Have you checked out https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/ ?

@sooskriszta I am not sure I follow. Is the suggestion that each user has a number of nested private groups? that *would* be one way to define relationships, but… pretty clunky, no?

I’m also having the same issue as mentioned above.

BuddyPress 1.8.1
WordPress Multisite 3.7.1

The button works from the main Groups page, but not when on a single group page.

Same here, just like biswadip said.
Trac solution did not work.