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Members page open for non logged in users

Carsten Lund
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@carsten-lund

6 years, 6 months ago

This might be a general WP issue, but it of special concern for members privacy in BP.

Members is not part of the BP components, I wonder why that is?

So BuddyPress instead create a members page, permalink: domain/members, where the BP Content are custom links. Why is that?

The problem is that visitors not logged in can enter domain/members, and see the members. they can’t view any of the profiles, but they can se a list of members. This is not very conveniant for members privacy.

How can I block this?

Regards
Carsten

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billysgtr
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@billysgtr

6 years, 6 months ago
Hey,
you can add this in functions.php
```
$not_logged_in_user = '';
function prevent_subscriber_from_members() {
    global $not_logged_in_user;
    if (
        // Look for  /members/ page
        stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/members/') !== false
        ) {         
        // If subscriber, redirect on home page
        if (!is_user_logged_in() ) {              
            if ($not_logged_in_user == '') { $not_logged_in_user = get_option('home'); }            
            // Send a temporary redirect
            wp_redirect($not_logged_in_user,302);            
        }           
    }       
}
add_action('init','prevent_subscriber_from_members',0);
```
It checks if the user is logged in. If not, redirects him to home page
Carsten Lund
Participant

@carsten-lund

6 years, 6 months ago

Hi, and thank you very much for the code, it works very well. Can I, in an easy way ad the blog page to the code, or should I just copy the code and change ‘members’ with ‘blog’?

I wonder why this code is not part of the build in security in WP and BP, so anyone just can ad a /members /blogs and so on, and see content for logged in users only. i guess you can’t do that in Facebook.

billysgtr
Participant

@billysgtr

6 years, 6 months ago

You can do the same thing for any page you want 🙂

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