Topic: How to make buddypress member profiles private for everyone

How to make buddypress member profiles private for everyone

jaykdoe
Participant

@jaykdoe

9 years, 5 months ago

I would like all member profiles to be completely private. Members should only be able to access their own profile and nobody elses. Admin accounts should have access as well, but all profiles should be completely private to all other members.

I have done some research and have found a few people looking for similar solutions, but none exactly like this. Additionally, it appears there may have been some plugins in the past that would have helped but I can no longer find them in the wordpress plugin repository.

Does anyone know of any plugins or custom code I could add to bp-custom.php to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance!

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Henry Wright
Moderator

@henrywright

9 years, 5 months ago
Hi @jaykdoe

You could try this:
```
function my_private_profiles() {

    // Bail if not a profile page.
    if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() )
        return;

    // Allow admin users.
    if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) )
        return;

    // Allow the profile owner.
    if ( bp_loggedin_user_id() == bp_displayed_user_id() )
        return;

    // If we get to here, redirect to homepage.
    bp_core_redirect( home_url() );
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_private_profiles' );
```
You can copy and paste it into your theme’s functions.php file. Please note I haven’t tested.
Prabin
Participant

@prabin04

9 years, 5 months ago

well I know a trick to restrict member’s profile to non-logged in user ..

jaykdoe
Participant

@jaykdoe

9 years, 5 months ago

@henrywright this worked great, thanks! I was trying to use bp-custom.php but turns out it needed to be in the functions.php file like you said.

thanks again for your help!

Patrickasd1
Participant

@patrickasd1

9 years, 1 month ago

@jaykdoe
Is this still working?
Crashed my site when I tried it out

danbp
Participant

@danbp

9 years, 1 month ago

@patrickasd1

It is working.
Are you sure you copied correctly the snippet to your theme functions.php file ?
Triple check what you paste. A missing tag or semi colon can lead to blank page due to a php error.

ekko848
Participant

@ekko848

8 years, 5 months ago

This code also crashed my site when trying to add to functions.php

playdiune
Participant

@playdiune

6 years, 11 months ago

Try this great article:

Como tornar os perfis de membros do buddypress privados

jacqu3s
Participant

@jacqu3s

5 years, 1 month ago

@playdiune and others,

The following MU Plugin code

works fine up to PHP version 7.1.
Any idea how to make it compatible with newer PHP versions (7.2 and above) ?

Thanks