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Have you tried searching the WordPress plugin repository for something like ‘buddypress spam messages’?

A good plugin that will certainly resolve the issue is
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/

@agreenmail @agreenmail I was using the Twenty Twelve theme when I made the tutorial “How to Join a Private Group” around a month ago in this page https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-components-and-features/groups/how-to-join-a-private-group/

@bphelp

Hi dear, I successfully installed your private community for bp and I edited

private_community_for_bp-master/private-community-for-bp.php changing ‘test’ with the name of the page I want to be public.

I cannot figure out how to put more pages available for generic users.
I tried to copy this string

$bphelp_my_unblocked_pages = ‘page_name’;

many times changing the name of the page each time, but it always works only with the last page.
Can you please tell me how to put more pages?
Many many thanks,
Gabriele

@agreenmail I see the request membership button in all private group screens. BP/WP versions? What theme are you using? Change to Twenty Twelve theme and check if the request membership button is present in your private group

Has someone found a solution to this issue? I also want to deny access to non-logged in users to group and members pages.

I tried private_community_for_bp but I did not understand how to customize code since I want to leave generic users to vist 3 pages that do not belong to bp installation since, like site homepage

Labs is meant to be experiments. Sometimes, experiments go wrong because no-one’s looking after them 😉

There’s autosuggest in core for the recipient name box on the private message screen, but nowhere else AFAIK.

@profc
Use this plugin. Download the zip file and upload to your plugins directory. Read the readme.txt and make the adjustments in the commented code in private-community-for-bp.php before activating the plugin.
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp

@imagine81, what you can do is create a function using ban array to ban some words e.g:”Phone Number”, “My address” etc…and check for the ban words in private messages.

Naijaping

@marathifacebook and @mercime, just an FYI regarding the “Facebook” issue. If you Google that topic, you will see that “Facebook” is no longer required to “sue” you, they will simply have the domain taken down, similar to the lawsuit won by “Craig’s List” which also won the right to do the same. They will not even give consideration to “purchasing” your domain…they already own it by copyright and trademark law, and just ANY name that includes the actual spelling of “f-a-c-e-b-o-o-k” applies.

A friend of mine had a similar issue and it takes about 2 weeks after your site hits the search engines for them to find it and you will be notified by the domain registrar that you have infringed on the copyright and the domain will be taken. No lawsuit necessary due a precedence case already having been tried. You will, however, be given the option to “change” the name to something…more suitable…at least in the eyes of “Facebook” and “Craig’s List”. So, “good luck” with that one…

In reference to your question regarding public and private blog posts, try the Advance Post Privacy Plug-in…however, it has not been tested with v3.5.1, so check it out first, but I have used it before and it works quite nicely allowing you to make certain posts private or not. I don’t know how well it functions with BuddyPress, but I know it is compatible with S2 which is a great membership plugin that works great!

@marathifacebook First of all, I suggest that you change your domain name to exclude facebook unless you have a written permission from the organization. Facebook has previously won trademark lawsuits against the owners of domains that included the “Facebook” name, such as FacebookStuff.com and KillFacebook.com etc. You wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of a lawsuit, would you?

As for your query about public and private blog posts, you can already do that using the privacy setting on the metabox in write/edit panel …

@imagine81, You can use a function to remove email contact from private message:

http://pastebin.com/jZeThNEv

Note: You can amend it to remove other contact aswell

Naijaping

@imagine81 The functions you want would require some custom plugin which is not available at this time. You could hire a developer to do this for you or wait till someone creates one and release it to the public.