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Look over “Configuring BuddyPress Components” https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/
In dashboard menu BuddyPress > Components, do not enable private messaging. Other than that, anyone can request for and possibly get a response for contact information whether they post in forums or blog posts.

Thanks guys, thanks to @Travel-Junkie ‘s code, I am now able to make an exception for the Links Directory, based on the ‘links’ slug.

However, I’ve now also been asked if we can’t get the individual link page (www.website.tld/links/…) to be an exception too… Can I count on you again?

There are lots of CSS hooks so you can customize the look of your messages pages. It would be easiest to just use some creative theming and create the effect. You could hide most profile information/avatar using CSS.

Or you could also try creating a custom page template using the private messages loop and adjust the parameters to suit your needs.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-private-messages-loop-bp_has_message_threads/

I use BP-Registration-Options and also Members Only between them this keeps out the non registered users and presents the registration page by default (which I have set as my redirect in Members Only). I hope this helps.

@joshua_d
As far as I know there were a couple rounds of private beta for a select few.

@suchaqd
That’s an interesting idea, but I doubt Automattic would go for it. kickstarter.com is great, but so far only available in the US

Thanks @dwenaus. This code is great!
Exactly what i looked for!!!

@acaps2007
@ScottWatson
the post linked below says how to display the number of unread messages.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-moverelocate-the-links-in-the-admin-bars-my-account-individuallyseparately-to-the-sidebar/

But I would prefer the idea @acaps2007 has proposed, that’s the “notification” item and the mouse over effect, since in a buddypress community, we would have
1. private messages
2. friend requests
3. group requests
4. group invites
5. mentions

Although the last one is not included in the default bp notification count, combining the previous four in one place would still help a lot.

Nope, doesn’t matter in this case, cause the && gets tested before the ||, but you can use parentheses. Doesn’t hurt.

If your site has open registration like you say, then users shouldn’t be redirected to the register page when they’re trying to read a post.

Do you have any redirection or private BuddyPress plugins installed?

@travel-junkie

Shouldn’t that line be:

`if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || ($bp->is_directory && $bp->current_component == ‘your-links-directory-slug’) )`

The added param should be between parentheses ‘cuz the “&&” applies only to the “is_directory”, no?

Well, just add that page to the first if statement in the function. Something like this:

`function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;

if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || $bp->is_directory && $bp->current_component == ‘your-links-directory-slug’ )
return;

if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .’/’. BP_REGISTER_SLUG );
}
add_action( ‘get_header’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );`

@Travel-Junkie and @iamjoshfrank I’ve just implemented your ‘sh walled garden’ code to shield my community pages from prying eyes, and it works great.

I was wondering however if you knew a way I could make an exception for the BuddyPress Links Directory (it’s a plugin, so there is no kind of conditional tag for this, as far as I know).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Private Groups’s activity only shows up in activity and search listings if the members are actually currently members of the group.

private groups’ Forums in the group will not show up in the forums directory ever.

I’d double-check that the admin email is correct at yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options-general.php

Then, make sure that the emails aren’t being zapped by your SPAM filter.

Do you get regular BuddyPress notifications (friend requests, private messages, etc.) to the admin email?

Is your email hosted on the same server as your site? You might try switching the admin email to gmail or whatever to see if the emails go to that other account. Because if your email account is the same as your website domain but you host your email elsewhere (ex. Rackspace, Google Apps), your server might be trying to send the message locally.

@gregfielding @r-a-y ….. thank you so much for bringing up this mentions issue …. i’m using w3tc latest versions of everything …i’ll keep checking back here for possible fix ….one other question lets say they fix the messaging issue in a future version of buddypress (and hopefully the @mentions) how would i know then to remove this from my functions.php file? would it be in the readme file of the latest version as an issue fixed in that release?

Hi,
I had the same problem I have commented from line 174 to line 199 in the
registration/register.php (in child theme)
Here the code

<div id="blog-details"class="show">

	<span class="label">
		<input type="checkbox" name="signup_with_blog" id="signup_with_blog" value="1" checked="checked" /> 	
	</span>

	<label for="signup_blog_url">
		<input type="text" name="signup_blog_url" id="signup_blog_url" value="" />
		<input type="text" name="signup_blog_url" id="signup_blog_url" value="" />
	</label>

	<label for="signup_blog_title"> 
		<input type="text" name="signup_blog_title" id="signup_blog_title" value="" />
	</label>
	
	 <label>
		<input type="radio" name="signup_blog_privacy" id="signup_blog_privacy_public" value="public" checked="checked" /> 
	</label>

	<label>
		<input type="radio" name="signup_blog_privacy" id="signup_blog_privacy_private" value="private" checked="checked" />
	</label>

</div>

@Mouchoirs Do a search for “Private Buddypress site” or something like that and you’ll find lots of threads on how to redirect non-logged in users to the login or registration page.

@djpaul,
Seems like you should be able to just replicate the user account creation calls on another page right? This is something I was considering doing for my project. Basically, someone could upload a list of email addresses and names, and it would create the person’s account, email them a temp password and they’d be good to go. Yes, I know WP use to do temp password and took that out, but in this case it might be useful to do.

is there a way to have a page with all documents uploaded from all groups? of course, preserving the permissions. Meaning that without being logged in you can see only public groups documents, if logged in you see documents from your private groups too.

To remove the default tabs, you’ll need to modify the theme.

Read this page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Then, once you’ve got the hang of that. Copy over /bp-themes/bp-default/header.php to your new child theme and modify the tab structure.

The function you’ll want is:
`is_user_logged_in()`

Wrap a is_user_logged_in() conditional around the tabs you want to show only for logged in users.

Something like this:

`

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

`

Note that if someone knows the URLs to those tabs, they’ll still be able to access them.

You might want to look into some BP private plugins like:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/

Thanks @r-a-y , I’ll give it a go.

No need to hack BP.

Put the following in your theme’s functions.php:

`
function ray_bp_get_send_public_message_link() {
global $bp;

return wp_nonce_url( $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->activity->slug . ‘/?r=’ . $bp->displayed_user->userdata->user_login );
}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_send_public_message_link’, ‘ray_bp_get_send_public_message_link’ );

function ray_bp_get_send_private_message_link() {
global $bp;

return wp_nonce_url( $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->messages->slug . ‘/compose/?r=’ . $bp->displayed_user->userdata->user_login );
}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_send_private_message_link’, ‘ray_bp_get_send_private_message_link’ );`