I am trying to figure this out as well.
Well, it would be nice to do this without a plugin 🙂
However, this plugin seems to work fine
https://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-items-visibility-control/
Logged in Links are relative to the logged-in user.
They are the same links you see when rolling over your name in the upper right corner.
So there is no Members link.
Using the plugin above, I added the ‘members’ and ‘groups’ pages to the BuddyPanel (Boss theme) and only display them to users that are logged in.
I want people who are logged in to have an easy way to find all available groups, as well as the members of the site.
I’m new to using BuddyPress. Thanks for your assistance! I’m think I’m set for now. 🙂
@shanebp: I don’t understand. Why are all the BP pages listed as options for only logged in users in the Menu widget except for the Members page (and Register and Log in, ofcourse)? I only want logged in members to see the member directory, for the sake of the privacy of my members. I can add the page via the regular pages menu, but then it is visible in the menu to everyone even if they are logged out. Or if I go to http://www.site.com/members/ when not logged in, the page with the list of members is visible. I would like the members directory to be private. I don’t understand why BP left this out of the menu for logged in users only. If this is not possible, is there a way to block the /members/ page from the public that won’t mess anything up?
In fact, I just checked all the logged-in links in a different browser that I’m not logged in to, and the members, activities, groups, friends and profile pages are ALL visible! Doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose of having a membership community that requires registration????? At least messages, notifications, and settings are locked. Am I missing something?
I use WPFront User Role editor to control visibility of menu items, it has a useful feature where you can set visibility to Guests only or logged in members only
Thank you for that, Venutius. After a good night’s sleep and some more playing around, it dawned on me that I don’t have to put all of the BuddyPress links in the main menu, especially since they are linked to from profiles. However, all those links I mentioned are still visible by logged out viewers, ie, .com/members/ .com/activity/ etc. Is there a way to block these pages from public view?
You could set the to be private pages and give your member the ability to view private pages using WPFront?
