{"id":64078,"date":"2011-11-17T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=64078"},"modified":"2013-04-15T15:44:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:44:46","slug":"how-to-add-profile-privacy-to-buddypress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-add-profile-privacy-to-buddypress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add Profile Privacy to BuddyPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Privacy controls are critical to any successful social network. Right now there are roughly zero plugin options for adding privacy to BuddyPress 1.5+. Some basic privacy controls are in discussion<\/a> for future versions of BuddyPress, but there aren’t any usable options yet. Here’s a trick that may tide you over in the meantime.<\/p>\n

Restrict User Profiles Based on Friendship<\/h2>\n

This is a hack<\/a> that I drudged up from the BuddyPress forums, a solution originally proposed<\/a> by our very own Richie_KS. It basically checks to see if users are friends before displaying a profile. Here’s how to use it:<\/p>\n

1. Add this to your theme’s functions.php<\/em> file:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\/\/ ------- Check if member is a friend  ------------- \/\/\r\n\r\nfunction bp_displayed_user_is_friend() {\r\nglobal $bp;\r\nif ( bp_is_profile_component() || bp_is_member() ) {\r\nif ( ('is_friend' != BP_Friends_Friendship::check_is_friend( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $bp->displayed_user->id )) && (bp_loggedin_user_id() != bp_displayed_user_id()) )\r\nif ( !is_super_admin( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) )\r\n\r\nreturn true;\r\n}\r\n}<\/pre>\n
2. Create a non-friend template file:<\/strong><\/p>\n
Essentially that will look something like this, with your own edits, of course:<\/p>\n
{code type=php}<\/p>\n
\n
You must be friends in order to access users’ profiles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Name it \u201cnot-friend.php\u201d<\/em> and it in your BuddyPress theme folder at: \/members\/single\/<\/em><\/p>\n
3. Edit your theme file to include the friendship check:<\/strong>
\nTo restrict profile info, open up \/members\/single\/profile.php<\/em> and add this at the top of the page:<\/p>\n
{code type=php}
\n<?php if ( bp_displayed_user_is_friend() ) : ?><\/p>\n
<?php locate_template( array( ‘members\/single\/not-friend.php’ ), true ) ?><\/p>\n
<?php else : ?><\/p>\n
Then you’ll need to add this at the bottom of the page:<\/p>\n
{code type=php}<?php endif; ?><\/p>\n
Here’s what it will look like with the code in place:<\/p>\n
\"Post<\/p>\n
The downside of this is that it doesn’t allow users to set their own privacy levels. However, I do like that it is a simple solution that can be implemented on the theme-level, without having to save anything new to the database. It’s by no means a full privacy solution, but I hope this tutorial helps those of you in a pinch who need some basic profile privacy in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Want to restrict user profiles based on friendship? This tutorial will show you how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":64103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,263],"tags":[146],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-64078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","category-tutorials","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216480,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64078\/revisions\/216480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64078"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=64078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}