At our non-profit site, we are individually styling the layout for Recent Activity, Recent Topics, and Recent Replies (we couldn’t use the styling pack plugin – long story for another post).

When modifying the stylesheets, I noticed that for the Recent Activity, there was a class – pg-activity-freshness for the date information. However I could not find a class for the date information in Recent Topics, or Recent Replies. Am I missing something?

Also, there was no option to hide avatars for Recent Topics or Recent Replies. That would be a good option for us.

Hi, I run a forum with a lot of users and forum posts. I have received complaints of 504 gateway timeouts when viewing user’s post/reply/ etc statistics on their forum profile page. I looked into it and it seems to be because this plugin is pulling every reply from the database when visiting that page and then iterating through them to see what the viewer has access to. I was not initially able to replicate this issue because I was logged in as the keymaster, and it was because in includes/replies.php pg_get_user_replies_created the permissions check is skipped for keymasters. This query: $post_ids=$wpdb->get_col("select ID from $wpdb->posts where post_type = '$reply'") ; should be rewritten to filter by post author so not every reply in the database is grabbed, and similar alterations should be made for the other user pages as well

Hi Robin,

Your plugins are always great.

I noticed when I restrict access to a forum to a group while using Buddypress, the topic still post in the buddypress activity feed.

Is there a way to have it restrict this creation IF the forum has a restriction?

Thanks as always.

Hello,

I’m trying to create a basic Q & A section with bbpress.

I need two have two different forum categories/topics:

1. Introductions (a topic thread where everyone can post and reply to each other.)
2. A Q &A category, where any registered user can post a question as a new topic but only moderators/admins can reply to it ASWELL as the original topic starter who asked the question and may want to follow up.

Is this possible with BBP Private Groups?

Thank you

Hello,

I have encountered a problem within the backend profiles section of the Private Group plugin. Historically, it has been possible to assign users to specific groups directly from their profile pages. This feature allows for the manual selection of group membership for each account.

Recently, I have noticed a change, presumably due to recent updates, where the group assignment option is no longer visible on my own administrator account profile. This issue seems to be isolated to my profile as I can still access and modify group assignments for all other user accounts without any problems.

Although this is a minor bug and there are workarounds, I believe it merits attention and a fix to ensure full functionality for administrators managing group assignments.

Thank you for looking into this matter. I appreciate your assistance and look forward to a resolution.

Best regards,

According the frontpage,

The widgets (bbpress) forums list, (bbpress) recent replies, and (bbpress) recent topics SHOULD NOT BE USED, as they will show topics headings and author names for all forums. Replacement widgets called (private groups) forums list, (private groups) recent replies, and (private groups) recent topics are available instead

According to Robin W’s website

You will see three new widgets starting with (private groups) and covering topics, replies and Topics lists.

• But I cannot find them. Please tell me where to find “(private groups) forums list”?

Hey guys,

we use bbp private groups on an internal website. What happens to subscription-based notifications, if

Case 1: a user is not or
Case 2: not anymore member of a bbp-private-group.

Some background, I want to mass subscribe all users to all forums using WP Automator. If I do this also with my bbp-private-group enabled forums, the users are obviously subscribed to them as well.

• Do they get notifications, even if they are not in the corresponding group?
• Can I somehow “recalculate” who is in a group and remove forum subscriptions based on that?

I really appreciate your help.

I have searched the forum but was not able to find a similar case. If there is one, please point me to it.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Dani.

Group is set to Hidden. Forum is set to Closed, Hidden and restricted to Group (Private Groups). Logged-in user, not a member of the Hidden Group can see the Hidden group’s forum on the Forum Index page. When clicked it goes to ‘page not found’. How can I stop forums from displaying on Forum Index if they are Hidden?

Hi, we need to allow users logging in (via Ultimate Member) to return to the forum post being requested – to do this we need to add a parameter to the login URL for it to refer back.

Is there a way to hook into the redirect URL for non logged-in users, rather than the plain URL set on the Forum Visibility settings page? We currently use /login/ but need to add the parameter like so: /login?redirect_to=”/forum/forum-post-being-requested/” so the Ultimate Member form can redirect users correctly.

Thanks!

• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by htwinam.

So, as in the title. I’ve restricted a forum to a particular group and when the forum link is clicked on we get redirected to a no page message.

Is it possible to display a bespoke message to the page redirected to instead of the ‘sorry! that page’ message?

Site looks broken. Would love to see a message letting visitors know they need to subscribe to a particular group. Is this possible?

Hi, is there a way to view all the members of a group? I can see what groups each user belongs to but I’d like to be able to view a list of all group members

Hi Robin,

Currently, I have

Category A (Assigned to John Doe user group, which only contain himself)
– forum 1
– forum 2
– forum 3

Category B (Assigned to Jane Smith user group, which only contain herself)
– forum 1
– forum 2
– forum 3

So what I am trying to get is John Doe login, and he can only see and access Category A.

Jane Smith login can only see and access to Category B.

Now when they login, they can see BOTH category but can only access their own one. I want to their own category only visible when they login, is that possible?

I tried to mark the category hidden, then no one inc themself can see. marked as private, still all the logged in user can see.

Can you help please?

Hi,

Is it possible with this plugin, to allow users to select their group on registration?

I’m looking to restrict access to particular forums by group, and would like users to be able to self admin this, so they can pick which forums they see.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi,

I didn’t find any documentation on this, so I wonder whether it’s possible with this plugin to enable a specific user group to create (and moderate) new groups from within the frontend?

Any help and hint appreciated!

Hi, I’m looking for a way to make all my private forums visible to all employees / administrators of the website. Do I need to create a new private group, assign it to each forum and then assign that group to the employee role, or is there a simpler way? Sorry if this has been asked before, wasn’t quite sure how to search for it

Hi,

I am having an issue where all groups can see all forum posts, in the index, is there annyway i can prevent the titles from showing up?

Because when the user click on the restricted post they can’t view it, so it’s only a problem that the titles are showing

Best Regards

Hi, after I installed the plugin, the display of the forums disappeared, before there was an icon, the name of the topic, a description, who and when added the last answer, after installing the plugin, only the topic, and the numbers at the beginning. I’m splitting the main topics of the forum into groups, so I want to return the original display, how can I do this?

Just now also noticed that I cannot use Duplicate Page when bbp Private Group is activated (multisite). “There has been a critical error on this website.” Duplicate Page works when Private Group is deactivated.

I installed bbp-private-groups on a multisite and network activated. I was then unable to add/edit dashboard messages on a subsite. Messages continued to display on the dashboard, they just cannot be created or edited: “There has been a critical error on this website.”

When I disable bbp-private-groups I can once again create and edit dashboard messages. Dashboard Messages have been incredibly useful to easily inform the site team of system changes and to track back for when something goes wrong (such as now).

I have also reported this conflict to Zedna as I cannot know which side or both the conflict originates.

We need both of you, hope something somewhere can be fixed!
Thank you.

I used to be able to disable groups, but recently that function seems to have stopped working. When I click on the disable groups tab, it only shows the groups I’ve currently disabled, but won’t let me disable additional groups. Please assist.

broken in php 8.0. can you fix this please?

Hi,

Is it possible to delte single private group?
I only found the option to disable them but not to remove them.

thank you

Hi Robin!

Really amazing plugin, congrats!

The only issue is that the user doesn’t get removed from the group on role change (no group or just having the triggering role removed)

I confirm the issue with a PMpro membership cancelation or even thru a manual role change with 20 theme and only bbpress and your plugin active, latest versions of WP and plugins.

Any chance that you could fix that?

Thanks

I am using your plugin to create several forums that can only be updated by logged in members. I have the posting access control working properly for my groups. The problem is with the settings that should allow non-logged-in users to view but not post in public forums.

I have the following options set for the plugin:
+ Forum visibility – activated
+ Topic permissions – activated

Folks who are not logged in get a login page rather than the ability to view but now post in forums with the “Only View Topics/Replies” option set. Visitors who are not logged in should be able to view the topics in the forums that have “Only View Topics/Replies” option set for non-logged-in-users. Can you please help me to solve this problem?

This is still a problem with the latest version update. Can you please help me to resolve this problem?

Just updated bbpress to 2.6.8 and am getting a fatal error on the website:

WordPress version 5.8.2 Current theme: CharityFoundation Child (version 1.8) Current plugin: bbP private groups (version 3.9.0) PHP version 7.4.25 Error Details ============= An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 225 of the file /home/customer/www/pilotstogether.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbp-private-groups/includes/meta-box.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function bbp_get_forum_post_type() in /home/customer/www/pilotstogether.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbp-private-groups/includes/meta-box.php:225 Stack trace: #0 /home/customer/www/pilotstogether.org/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(305): private_groups_save_meta(118068, Object(WP_Post)) #1 /home/customer/www/pilotstogether.org/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(327): WP_Hook->apply_filters('', Array) #2 /home/customer/www/pilotstogether.org/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(470): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #3 /home/customer/www/pilotstogether.org/public_html/wp-includes/post.php(4468): do_action('save_post', 118068, Object(WP_Post), true) #4 /home/customer/www/pilotstogether.org/public_html/wp-includes/post.php(4570): wp_insert_post(Array, false, true) #5 /home/customer/www/pilotstogether.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/eventprime-event-calendar-management/includes/service/class-em-booking.php(287): wp_update_post(Array) #6 /home/customer/www/pilotst

Hi,

At some point this plugin has stopped hiding a forum which I do not want the public or anyone without access to the forum to see that it exists.

Previously only the groups allocated to it could see it existed.

The settings in the forum is:

Visibility: Public

Non-logged in users: No visibility or access to this forum.

But they can see that it exists although when they click on it they cannot see any content.

I thought it was also supposed to not show to other logged in users that were not in one of the groups with permission to view and post in the forum.

Any help is appreciated.

did not realize the task of moderating so many groups and approving requests, I want to change all private groups to public, is this possible ?

Hi,

I’m having a kind of a problem that I can only start describing now, and then hopefully add to the description as I observe more (or if someone else notices similar behavior). For now I don’t really know even what name to give to it ?? Any advice on how to collect data on this behavior is also very welcome!

My users log in using Simple WP Membership plugin.

On my main menu I have a link to Forums. The link works fine, they click around, log out, log back in, etc. Then all of a sudden when they click on the Forums link again (or try to access any one of their forums), they are redirected to the page where they should go if they didn’t have access to that forum.

It started happening about 2-3 weeks ago, until then everything was working perfectly. I had a passing thought that it had something to do with the latest WP update, but I cannot be sure.

It most commonly affects mobile phone users using Chrome. I have had reports of desktop Chrome users experiencing similar behavior. Firefox seems to behave much better.

In most cases it is solved by clearing browser cache and logging in again.

There is a SWPM update available which I intend to process today, but I’m not convinced that it is the cause.

Are there any filters available to remove restricted content from an RSS feed?

Hi, I have a website with 200k+ enrolled users, though only a tiny fraction of those are active on the forums, the way this plugin checks every user for a list of active groups means that there are certain settings pages that I can’t get to load at all, Disable Groups for example. Any page that does manage to load does so very slowly, sometimes I get a 504 timeout even if my action ultimately goes through. Is there anything that can be done about this, or something I should be doing differently? Thanks