Hi Cathy,
Welcome to BuddyDev.

I looked at the kleo theme and I see that they have a function

bp_next_profile()

which they use for fetching next profile.
The problem is this function does not use any standar WordPress/BuddyPress API functions. It queries using raw sql.

It does provide one entry point

bp_pre_user_query_construct

That we can use for excluding but that will be inefficient. The problem is we need to fetch the complete list of users who have hidden profile and then specify in the ‘exclude’ parameter in the above if we want to hide it from the next. this approach is fine for smaller network but will cause issue on the large network.

If you want, I can provide the code to remove hidden profile (I will still be avoiding to add that to the plugin as it may cause problem for our existing users).

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Cathy,
Please put this code in your bp-custom.php

function buddydev_exclude_users_in_bp_user_query( $query ) {

	if ( ! function_exists( 'bp_profile_visibility_manager' ) ) {
		return;
	}

	$excluded = bp_profile_visibility_manager()->get_users( 'bp_profile_visibility', 'self' );
	//should we exclude friends only profile too?
	$excluded = array_merge( $excluded, bp_profile_visibility_manager()->get_users( 'bp_profile_visibility', 'friends' ) );

	$pre_excluded = empty( $query->query_vars['exclude'] ) ? array() : wp_parse_id_list( $query->query_vars['exclude'] );

	if ( ! empty( $pre_excluded ) ) {
		$excluded = array_merge( $excluded, $pre_excluded );
	}

	$query->query_vars['exclude'] = $excluded;

}

add_action( 'bp_pre_user_query_construct', 'buddydev_exclude_users_in_bp_user_query' );

Please do let me know if it works or not?

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Cathy,
Is there any chance that you copied the code from the notification email. The code might have been entity encoded.
can you please post it on pastebin and link me?

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Cathy,
Apologies for the delayed reply.

I am going to test it with the theme today and will report back with updated code.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Cathy,
Please give the following code try one more time

function buddydev_exclude_users_in_bp_user_query( $query ) {

	if ( ! function_exists( 'bp_profile_visibility_manager' ) ) {
		return;
	}

	$excluded = bp_profile_visibility_manager()->get_users( 'bp_profile_visibility', 'self' );
	//should we exclude friends only profile too?
	$excluded = array_merge( $excluded, bp_profile_visibility_manager()->get_users( 'bp_profile_visibility', 'friends' ) );

	$pre_excluded = empty( $query->query_vars['exclude'] ) ? array() : wp_parse_id_list( $query->query_vars['exclude'] );

	if ( ! empty( $pre_excluded ) ) {
		$excluded = array_merge( $excluded, $pre_excluded );
	}

	if ( ! empty( $excluded ) ) {
		$query->query_vars['exclude'] = $excluded;
	}

}

add_action( 'bp_pre_user_query_construct', 'buddydev_exclude_users_in_bp_user_query' , 100);

All I have changed here is the priority and the checkl if there is something to exclude.

Even the first code worked for me. When you set a profile as Only me(private) It is not visible in part of the previous/next navigation.

It is possible that some other is overriding the exclude too, so changing the priority might work.

Thank you
Brajesh