BuddyPress Membership Plugin 4.8.6, New Option to Restrict BuddyPress Activity RSS

Hi, dear users of BuddyPress Membership Plugin, hope this message find you are doing well and have happy days with your family 🙂  We got a  ticket from an amazing user of buddypress members only plugin, in which she said she love our buddypress members only plugin, she is a psychotherapist who has helped many people recover their mental health, and our plug-in helps her protect the privacy of her clients and allows them to still feel free to share their recovery experiences, that’s great, she have a suggestion, she hope restricts rss feed of buddypress activity, in buddypress activity there are a lot of users private messages, she know our buddypress members only plugin have options to restrict buddypress activity component to non-member users, or just use buddypress members only plugin to set up which user roles can view buddypress activity  pages or be restricted to buddypress activity pages, but she found the rss feed of buddypress activity is not protected yet, that means some users can get private messages from buddypress activity rss feed yet 🙂

That’s a great suggestion, We didn’t notice that rss feed could leak information about the user’s buddypress activity, we carefully examined the buddypress code, fortunately, in the buddypress activity rss code module, we found an API, we developed a new option to allow or disallow the user to read the buddypress activity rss content 🙂

It is very easy to allow or disallow the user to read the buddypress activity rss content:

1: Login wordpress dashboard as wordpress admin

2: Click “BP members only” memu item

3: Click “Rss restricts” sub menu item

4: You will open “Buddypress Members Only RSS Restricts Settings” panel, it looks like this:

buddypress rss restriction

5: As you can see, in rss restricts panel, we added a new option: “Enable BuddyPress Activity RSS Restricts”, if you enable the option “Enable BuddyPress Activity RSS Restricts”, we will restricts rss feed of buddypress activity to users, when users open the rss feed of buddypress activity pages, there are nothing, by this way, we solved the problem of leak information from the user’s buddypress activity

If you want to enable rss feed of buddypress activity  for users, just disable the option “Enable BuddyPress Activity RSS Restricts”, then users can read content of buddypress activity again 🙂

Easy? 🙂

Thanks for the great feedback of buddypress membership plugin, as developer of buddypress membership plugin, we are not always know all user’s requirement, it is you — users of buddypress membership plugin, give us many rate suggestions to let us know what is the real needs of buddypress private sites, if you have any feedback or suggestion of buddypress members only plugin, please don’t hesitate to tell us, we are very happy to improve functions of our buddypress membership plugin always 🙂

Thanks, have a blessed weekend with your family 🙂

Best Regards,

Buddypress membership plugin support