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How to hide the friends tab from other users while displaying it to owner and admin only

Sameera
Member

@sameeraperera

12 years, 12 months ago

Hi,
I want to hide the “Friends” tab on the users profile page to all other users except for admin and owner of the profile only. I want this to work the way Messages and Settings tabs work => If another user types
`http: // [site] / [username] / messages`
BP shows an error message saying the user does not have access to the page.

If I use (with !bp_is_my_profile()),
`bp_core_remove_nav_item(‘friends’)`
it just shows a 404 type page for the `http: // [site] / [username] / friends`.

I tried
`$bp->bp_nav = false;`
but that doesn’t prevent the user from seeing the friends by going to `http: // [site] / [username] / friends`

I prevent the user from seeing the friends list by editing the members/home.php file. But, I’d like to use the same mechanism that settings and messages pages use.
I looked at messages/single.php, but didn’t see anything that could be taking care of this logic.

Can anybody help please?

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modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

12 years, 12 months ago

Install BuddyPress Profile Privacy plugin

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

12 years, 12 months ago

Just read you don’t want to edit home.php. There isn’t a filter for privacy like there is with messages for showing profile sections. Messages and xprofile fields has logic for output and can be filtered but the actual page needs a code edit.

Sameera
Member

@sameeraperera

12 years, 12 months ago

Thanks for your reply. I don’t mind editing home.php because I’m doing it in my theme file. I’ve figured out a way to prevent the friends tab to other users. Just trying to figure out the way it’s done for messages, so that I’m not reinventing anything.

LavishDhand
Participant

@lavishdhand

12 years, 2 months ago

Hi!

Can you kindly share how did you actually do this? I need the same for my site.

1. How did you prevent the friends tab to other users?
2. Have you figured out the way for messages?

regards

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