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I have used https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/ and https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/pods/ to create a new taxonomy that users can be part of.

Example usage: Users can be part of ‘team red’, ‘team green’ or ‘team blue’.

I would like to enable any user to send private messages to all members of a selected team.

I have looked at mass mailing plugins and am new to BP. My thoughts are that either there is a way to code a private message procedure to search through users and send a message to the matching profiles. OR, look into Groups.

If it is the latter, I would like Groups to be completely hidden from non-group members.

Any thoughts welcome. Thank you.