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You should be able to wrap your bbp_has_topics output in a conditional like:

if ( bp_group_is_visible() ) {
//do the topics loop here
}

bp_group_is_visible checks to see if the group is public or private, and if it’s public, returns true. If not public, then it checks to see if the user is a member of the current group; if yes, it returns true. It’s located at /bp-groups/bp-groups-template.php -> line 377.

function bp_group_is_visible( $group = false ) {
 378      global $groups_template;
 379  
 380      if ( bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) )
 381          return true;
 382  
 383      if ( empty( $group ) )
 384          $group =& $groups_template->group;
 385  
 386      if ( 'public' == $group->status ) {
 387          return true;
 388      } else {
 389          if ( groups_is_user_member( bp_loggedin_user_id(), $group->id ) ) {
 390              return true;
 391          }
 392      }
 393  
 394      return false;
 395  }

When you say it didn’t work, do you mean that people who should see the topics couldn’t, or that no one could see the topics, or that everyone could see the topics? Was it too generous in letting people through or did it keep everyone out? 😉

Also, could it be that this is this being used in a sidebar? I’m wondering if the placement on the page means that the group context is not certain, so you’d need to pass the group_id into bp_group_is_visible. Although I’d expect the bbp_topics to need to access the group_id as well.

Put this before the code we’ve been talking about, and see what it displays on the page:

$test_id = bp_get_current_group_id();
echo 'The current group ID is:' . $test_id;

If it returns a number besides zero (zero means that it can’t figure out which group is the current group, a non-zero number is the current group ID), then you could probably adjust the conditional code:

if ( bp_group_is_visible( bp_get_current_group_id() ) ) {
//do the topics loop here
}

Fingers crossed.

That’s too bad. A couple of questions I should have asked at the beginning:

1. What theme are you using?
2. If you remove the conditional we added, does bbPress return topics for the correct group?

cinematix* http://themeforest.net/item/cinematix-buddypress-theme/4959387

aha not front page but site wide sidebar… its ok, thanks for trying tho…