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@nomad-one The feeds for all your public groups are working. There are no feeds for private groups which is how it’s supposed to be for logged out users.

So, Can I get some clarification from a friendly user.

I want to have multiple BP networks, all exclusive to each other and private.
I want to allow for members to be able to ask to ‘join’ any network and if permission is receive.. he or she is in, without the need to fill out a form..

Is this possible?

I do not find any issue in joining a private group via the private group’s home page or joining private groups via Groups Directory page or the Private Group’s home page on default installs. https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-components-and-features/groups/how-to-join-a-private-group/ on Twenty Twelve theme.

@janogu
BuddyPress now has profile privacy built in for individual field visibility. BuddyPress Activity Privacy plugin is great at controlling who see’s individual activity posts. https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp does a decent job of locking down BP pages for logged out visitors. BuddyMobile is great for providing users of mobile devices an app like version of BP. So in conclusion I would say BP privacy has come along way since 2010. It would be nice if more of those features were built into the core in future versions but I am not sure that it would be something the core team would undertake at this point in development. The plugins I mentioned are in the repository with the exception of Private Community For BP in which I provided the GitHub link. Hope this answers your questions. Cheers!

Hi all

I have fixed the issue but it has taken me a while to work out what an earth is going. The issue is not the theme, but in global.js so I should not have the only site experiencing this problem.

The issue would only ever be on a single group page, on the group directory you were able to request membership completely fine.

In global.js line 940 references a css id which is only listed on the groups directory

jq('#groups-dir-list').on('click', '.group-button a', function() {

therefore the requests won’t work. As a temp fixed I’ve copied the function and referenced

jq('#item-buttons').on('click', '.group-button a', function() {

which will reference the request button on a single group. I’m not too good with jquery and have just added this into the default global.js as assume someone will not go and fix this and roll out an update.

@bakelady Where is the disconnect for any member joining a private group? Which step below?
1. A member clicks on the “Request Membership” button of a private group, the button should become “Membership Requested.”
2. Group Admin gets notification via email (if enabled) and via notification bubble in WP Admin/Toolbar
3. Group Admin clicks on notification that a certain member is requesting membership. Click brings Group Admin to group’s Admin > Requests
4. Group Admin chooses “Accept” or “Reject” membership request
5. Accepted Member gets notification via email (if enabled) and via notification bubble in WP Admin/Toolbar that he/she was accepted to that private group

@bakelady 🙂 Thanks for posting about the conflict with the User Role Editor and private groups.

But I still need to find out why ‘contributors’ are not able to add blog posts and events

Contributors should be able to submit a post from the backend (wp-admin) but it will need Site/Super Admin to approve and publish the post.

@bakelady Error logs? If you change to Twenty Twelve theme or the BP Default theme, is the issue resolved?

@echofoxtrot
This plugin works and is more complete as far as building a private community.
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp

Please help me get this straight in my mind, i need to reduce it to writing before i go find a developer to help.

I need multi-site, multi-network buddypress and wordpress. SINGLE signin point of entery and then multi private networks. Some networks may have top level domain and some maybe “behind” a website hosted on wordpress.

Is this a possible layout?

Thanks