Ok, so I found out when I create private or hidden group in buddypress and I check “Enable discussion forum” – it will create public/visible forum.

It looks like first action is creating a forum, then saving actual group settings / by default group will be “public”, so the forum.

I tried to fix it but I am not sure where exactly can I switch the order of actions triggered.

Anyone can help?

[@lokers Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Just to clarify. I am talking about plugin for buddypress to communicate with bbpress. And by saying forum is visible I mean forum created with this plugin on bbpress side is visible (but should inherit settings from group).

[@plrk Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

bbPress does not have any native ways to hide forums that should be hidden. You can do as I have done – installing a “blank” theme that redirects users to your main site, limiting users to use the built-in group forums functionality only – or you could install a bbPress plugin that hides forums from those that are not allowed to view them. There is such a plugin, intended specifically for buddypress users, but I can’t remember what it is called.

[@lokers Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

yes, I’ve got this plugin (bpGroups), it works fine but it has this one bug and I don’t know how to fix this damn thing.

Basicaly, when you are creating a new group there is a checkbox to create a forum on bb site too. Below are 3 group options: public, private, hidden.

Now, the script creates forum (default is public), then it changes settings for a group (private or hidden), and it should do this at a first place so it could inherit proper group settings when creating a forum. Do you know what I mean? I just want to swap the order somewhere inside the code to make it working. It should first update group settings, then create a forum. That way it would work properly.

I googled about this etc, looks like nobody’s aware of this bug cos I couldn’t find any answers and nobody even point this anywhere.

[@lokers Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

ok, I’ve got temporary solution.

File: wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups.php

Line 1481: yous should have (inside function groups_create_group() / case 2:)

after:

do_action( ‘groups_create_group_step2_save’ );

I’ve added this line:

oci_bb_group_updated($group_obj->id);

So it works, but i had to modify this file which I am not happy with. I guess there is another way of doing this properly. If anyone will find better solution, could you please let me know too?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 15 years, 5 months ago]

I experienced a similar problem as well.

Did you edit a BuddyPress core file using a bpGroups function?

You should let Burt Adsit know of your fix, so maybe he can provide a cleaner solution using his plugin instead of editing the core:

https://buddypress.org/developers/burtadsit

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Try adding this to line 161 of /wp-content/mu-plugins/oci_bp_group_forums.php

add_action( 'groups_create_group_step2_save', 'oci_bb_group_updated', 10, 1 );

See if that does the same thing.

[@lokers Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

I have tried that too. It doesn’t work that’s why I’ve edited the core. Also, I sent PM to Burt with link to this post few days ago.

[@burtadsit Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

I haven’t updated bpgroup to be compatible with trunk bp yet. There’s a trac ticket by me whining about the lack of wp actions on group creation with the new group creation stuff.