Hi Dear Users of BuddyPress Members Only Plugin,
Hope this message find you are doing well and having happy weekend with your family 🙂 We get a ticket from a buddypress members only plugin user, in which he said in his buddypress site, his users build a lot of buddypress groups,his site is built for hospital which offer long-term care hone beds and community support services, his user do not want their private messages in buddypress groups be viewed by public users, he searched a solution for a long time, finally in google, he searched in our buddypress membership features page, we said in buddypress members only pro plugin, support
“14: Setting users redirect to BuddyPress Groups Page”
and
“2: Restricts BP components to Non-member / guest, include:
Buddypress Activity Component
Buddypress Members Component
Buddypress Forums Component
Buddypress Friends Component
Buddypress Groups Component
Buddypress Messages Component
Buddypress Notifications Component
Buddypress Settings Component
Buddypress Profile Component
Buddypress Blogs Component
and other opened customized components you entered”
and
“# In login redirect based on user role menu, admin can setting users redirect to BuddyPress Groups Page”
and
“# In logout redirect based on user role menu, admin can setting users redirect to BuddyPress Groups Page”
and
“Or you can open Buddypress Forums Component / Pages to non member users, but when non member users try to open pages related with Buddypress Groups Component, they will be redirected to the redirect page which you setting in admin area.. and so on, infinite possibilities.”
He said that’s what he wanted, as a not-for-profit senior care organization, he downloaded and installed our buddypress members only free plugin, but he found these features just included in buddypress membership pro plugin versions, he asked us can we add function of “restricts buddypress group for non-members users” to buddypress members only free plugin?
Okay, our buddypress membership plugin author said he is very happy to add the function of protect messages in buddypress groups to guest users into to buddypress members only free plugin too, that’s why we released buddyrpess members only free 3.1.9 🙂
How to Restricts Buddypress Groups to Guest Users?
1: Please login your wordpress site as wordpress admin
2: In wordpress plugins panel, please update your buddypress members only plugin to 3.1.9
3: After upgraded buddypress members only, please click “BP Members Only” menu item in wordpress dashboard
4: Then please click the sub menu “BP Components” , in here you can set up to restricts buddypress component to guest users, you will open “Buddypress Members Only Components Setting:” panel
5: In “Buddypress Members Only Components Setting” panel, You will find we have listed buddypress components in here, for example, activity, group, members… and so on, there are a screenshot for the buddypress memebrs only pro version — in which support more buddypress components and support restricts buddypress component based on user roles, but basically what you need to do is the same — just a few clicks to restricts selected buddypress components to non-member users:
6: If you want to restricts guest users to read messages in any buddypress component, just checked the checkbox, then click submit, it is very easy.
7: In front end, when guest users try to view your private-protected messages in selected buddypress component, they will be redirected to your landing page or register page which you set up in “bp members only” menu item
Conclusion:
With BuddyPress Members Only Plugin, you can restrict your private buddypress components-pages to non-member users, just view a few clicks in the new “Buddypress Members Only Components Setting:” panel, by this way, some not-for-profit organization can hide their user’s private message to public users, it is great to help you build a safe-private-helpful buddypress site for your users 🙂
