Hi there, taking up this old topic from here

https://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/problem-with-make-a-wordpress-site-private-code/

as I discovered an issue which is related to both the revised code below and the original code from here.
https://buddydev.com/making-a-wordpress-buddypress-site-private-the-right-way/

Here’s the case:

When a user has not been active on the page for a while, the user is logged out, I think this is the way WP works.

The problem occurs when the user wants to access the page from members area again, with the last url used, eg. domain.com/search or domain.com/members/profile.

Without the code, the user will be linked to the frontpage to login again, but with the code, the url is not cleared when the page is refreshed, and the user gets the “Too many redirections” error, and can’t access without clearing the url manually.

So the code snippet prevent redirection to the front page, when users are automatically logged out.

Can something be added to the code, so the logged out user is redirected to the frontpage?

Regards
Carsten

/**
 * Make a BuddyPress section of the site Private.
 *
 * @author sbrajesh
 * @global string $pagenow
 */
function buddydev_private_site() {

	// do not restrict logged in users.
	if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
		return;
	}

	// handle Special case of BuddyPress registration/Login.
	if ( function_exists( 'is_buddypress' ) && is_buddypress() ) {

		if ( bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_register_page() ) {
			return;
		}

		$redirect_url = wp_login_url( site_url( '/' ) ); // get login url.

		wp_safe_redirect( $redirect_url );
		exit( 0 );
	}
}

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'buddydev_private_site', 0 );