if you want complete private community I used the code of david carson described in this thread:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-frisco-for-buddypress-login-in-home-page?replies=18
here is the code you need to paste in a bp-custom.php in you plugin directory.
Note: that not logged in users are redirected to slug/register page, you have to change it if your register page has a different URL.
‘<?php
// **** Privacy ********
function restrict_access(){
global $bp, $bp_unfiltered_uri;
// If user is not logged in and
if (!is_user_logged_in() &&
(
// The current page is not register or activation
!bp_is_register_page() &&
!bp_is_activation_page()
)
) {
// Redirect to registration page. Change /register to your register page slug
bp_core_redirect( get_option(‘home’) . ‘/register’ );
}
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘restrict_access’, 3 );
‘
http://pastebin.com/rgJ6BQc8
Try member access plugin. Thats what i use
jbsocial.com
The relevant pages are now private and password protected so I can’t let you have access to them.
However, I can tell you that there is no misalignment and all the BP content is fine – it’s just the sidebar that will not display.
Also, I tried installing just WordPress and BuddyPress fresh on a subdomain – with nothing else installed – and I still had the same result, i.e. no sidebar on the BuddyPress pages.
There seems to be somthing in WordPress, Thematic or BuddyPress that does not want to play nice.
For the time being I shall have to continue with the work-around I outlined above – not ideal but workable.
Thanks again.
Oh, I should add that the Groups are all public, not private.
I too am having this problem. I’m using a custom theme from RocketThemes. I looked in the member-header.php file and it has that line of code you listed.
On my member profile pages it only lists “Add Friend” Public Message” & “Private Message.”
aces, that’s a good option, but many simply don’t even want to have to adjust their settings to hide what they view as very private data, and many won’t even check until they get someone telling them, “Hey, did you know a lot of your private data is showing on your profile?” By then, trust is lost, often permanently.
I’m trying to find an answer to this myself. I read something, somewhere that I forgot to bookmark, that basically said this is working as intended. But it seems like massive design flaw. It seems as if it should be able to be fixed, since I CAN see all groups as Admin.
I’ve tried playing with stuff with user access plugins and I can’t find anything to toggle that helps. Assuming it is simply in the theme or plugin somewhere, but I can’t put it together.
I have also Tried disabling the ajax features but still problems… Any help would be awesome.
I am also getting “response is null” errors in firebug when viewing the global activity page from the global.js file
`
response is null
jq(this).html(response.contents);
`
Yes the https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ plugin changes the from mail with a user or a specified email as aces said above.
Seems my issue was I installed a Private Community plugin did not even activate it and it created a problem with buddypress sending out the email
As soon as I removed the plugin the issue was resolved. I need only add my categories, social login and bingo we are up and running.
Love WordPress 
Actually, I did. She was wondering if there were more obvious solutions than what she could think of. Though she mentioned that the listed solution only works if you don’t ever have a different field name.
Attached is a screenshot of what I really was hoping BuddyPress would have, a standard Ning feature, which allows you to select ‘private’, so the answer will only be visible to you and other administrators: http://csplacemaking.com/images/profile-questions.png. This is the ideal solution.
@dope-sheet
Please start a new topic for new or different issues?
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-private-community/home/ is listed as incompatible with 1.5+ in Aug 2011 on https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/plugin-compatibility/ (although the error there is wrong) and doesn’t appear to have been recently upgraded
Can anyone tell us why this message appears after install in plugins>>>> Fatal error Call to undefined function bp_core_redirect() in /home/*******/public_html/*******wp-content/plugins/buddypress-private-community/mm-buddypress-private-community.php on line 386 ?? also crashes whole site…Thanks
It is the regular WordPress version 3.3.1 using a new install of Buddypress 1.5.4. This issue occurs even with the default theme activated and with all other plugins deactivated.
WP/BP versions? Is this an old upgraded installation or a new installation? Have you tried basic troubleshooting like changing to bp-default theme and deactivating all plugins except BuddyPres to see if issue is corrected?
>>> Right now I only have 2 groups, as the site grows users will be able to create their own groups and have a forum. The 2 groups I have is one for all users (I don’t want a forum for this group), and the second group is just for businesses that join the site. The business member group has a forum that I am only making visible to the business members.
If you do not want a group to have a forum, then do not enable the group’s forums in that groups admin page.
If you want to make the forum visible to only the business members group, then make that group a Private Group or a Hidden Group.
>>> … the forums page is showing.
Not clear whether you’re referring to the group forum or the sitewide forums page.
>>> How can I set the forums page to be the sitewide forums? I have the custom link in the navigation bar and that is fine.
Not clear. Do you mean that you want to use the “forums” slug for your sitewide forums?
>>> But in the community widget, there is a link for forums and I do not want that because it just takes you to an empty forum and I do not want them to use that for their reviews. Ideally I would love for that to go to the review forum. Hope this makes sense.
Not clear. Which community widget? What theme are you using?
i’m going to look for membership plugin that works on a multisite installation.
perhaps i can set one public, one private.
hi again everybody,
i tried what @mercime told me, and i found out that replacing some content of index.php with the login form won’t work for me, because all the other pages of the site are still available to any visitor.
i’d need to make the whole site a private one.
any further help?.
thanks !!
Is there a setting I’m missing? Members should be able to compose a private message, since they are able to reply to them….right?
Help!
Here’s the error message: “There was an error sending that message, please try again”
To answer your question, it could definitely be used for an online dating community.
Their is ALOT of code around the web that you can find via google.com to create a private community…
here is one: http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/code/close-down-your-site-for-logged-in-members-only/
Couldn’t you use something like travel-junkie’s walled garden technique:
`
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 ) )
return;
if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( bp_get_signup_page() );
}
add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );
`
This goes in bp-custom.php and hides members and activity from those not logged in but enables forums and groups for everyone. It can also be customised…..
Chris Clayton discussed a similar method here
Having different menus for logged in users is discussed here – also see here
Speaking from experience I suggest WPMU, Networks+ ($$), and BP Multi Network. (You may wanna include the Domain Mapping plugin to map sites to domains.)
Install WordPress and configure networking, WPMU as a subdirectory installation. (Default)
Create your mu-plugins folder and upload Networks+. From here you’ll be able to create your different org networks. Each org network can offer blogs which can be created using the BP-Groupblog plugin. This way the group, whether public, private, or hidden, can be associated with the blog.
Create each of your org networks.
Install and activate BuddyPress on the main site first.
Upload your bp multi network plugin to your mu-plugins folder.
Activate BP on one of your org networks. Once activated your users will be shared across the entire network but your groups and blogs are specific to that org network.
I have it on a site / network I’m working on here:
http://teamnu.net
and here: http://alumnicreator.net
Not to take away from the plugins available here but you’d buy the Networks+ and Domain Mapping plugin from wpEbooks site and the support over there is awesome just as it is here.
gl
Theme author of Suffusion theme has a created a plugin to make Suffusion compatible with BuddyPress, so you don’t need to install and activate BP Template Pack plugin
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/suffusion-buddypress-pack/
@djbnotts – sorry, missed your reply the other day. Your welcome. Just thought i’d suggest it as users seeing errors is a serious problem.
BP Private community does the exact same thing as David’s code (his code is their ‘default’ mode, and their optional method can be easily done easily just by removing the Exclamation mark just before the conditional).
Private community doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore (last update was in 2010) so you might be better off using that code as it’s slightly more recent and works in current version of 1.6 bleeding.
