Hi Brajesh,

Thank you so much for such a speedy reply.

I appreciate that you have updated the code. I only have 5 roles I want to exclude and 1 role I want to include, so I think this piece of code will work for me, but I tried it and it didn’t work for me, it had this problem:

When I tried the “Limiting to certain roles only.”, I added the one role I wanted to include in my directory and when I opened the directory, the page stays stuck on the “Loading the members of your community. Please wait.” message, and shows there are 6 members (when there should be 2 members, both with the same role I wanted to include). The same problem occured when I manually entered the 5 roles I want to exclude. I got the user roles from my wordpress dashboard.

Also, I noted that you mentioned the other BuddyDev article with the code for excluding certain users, I used the code from the github page. Not sure if I was supposed to use the BuddyDev one?

Thank you
Stephanie

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by Stephanie. Reason: Add detail

Hello Brajesh,
Your last message landed in my junk folder so I did not see it till now.

I am making a job board and want to hide the administrator (ie me) and the job posters so only job seekers are visible in the directory. I have 5 roles in total that I want to hide from the diirectory, including “administrator”, “job_poster”, “student” and two others.

I do not know what their field IDs are and if that is needed but I got the role name from the Members plugin which lists all the user roles on my site.

Also I do not have friends capability added on my site but I left that section of the code in because I am not sure if I can remove it.

To answer your question, here is the exact code I used from the gist page:
Attempt 1, trying to hide multiple roles, specifically “administrator” and “job_poster”:

/**
 * Excludes users from BuddyPress Members list.
 *
 * @param string $qs Query string.
 * @param string $object object loop identikfier.
 *
 * @return string
 */
function bpdev_exclude_users( $qs = false, $object = false ) {

	if ( $object != 'members' ) { // hide for members only.
		return $qs;
	}

	// comma separated ids of users whom you want to exclude.
	$excluded_users = join( 'administrator', bpdev_get_excluded_user_ids() );

	$args = wp_parse_args( $qs );

	// check if we are searching for friends list etc., do not exclude in this case.
	if ( ! empty( $args['user_id'] ) ) {
		return $qs;
	}

	if ( ! empty( $args['exclude'] ) ) {
		$args['exclude'] = $args['exclude'] . 'administrator' . $excluded_users;
	} else {
		$args['exclude'] = $excluded_users;
	}

	$qs = build_query( $args );

	return $qs;
}

add_action( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'bpdev_exclude_users', 20, 2 );

/**
 * Retrieves an array of user ids to exclude.
 *
 * NOTE:- It is not an efficient idea if you want to exclude thousands of users. There are better ways.
 *
 * @return array
 */
function bpdev_get_excluded_user_ids() {
	/*
	// Example:- Multiple roles Exclusion
	$query = array(
		'role__in' => array( 'administrator, job_poster' ),  // List of roles to exclude.
		'fields'   => 'ID'
	);
   */

	return get_users( $query );
}

Attempt 2, Limiting display in directory to certain roles only by specifying the single role I want shown (a role called “talent”:

<?php
/**
 * Excludes users from BuddyPress Members list.
 *
 * @param string $qs Query string.
 * @param string $object object loop identikfier.
 *
 * @return string
 */
function bpdev_exclude_users( $qs = false, $object = false ) {

	if ( $object != 'members' ) { // hide for members only.
		return $qs;
	}

	// comma separated ids of users whom you want to exclude.
	$excluded_users = join( ',', bpdev_get_excluded_user_ids() );

	$args = wp_parse_args( $qs );

	// check if we are searching for friends list etc., do not exclude in this case.
	if ( ! empty( $args['user_id'] ) ) {
		return $qs;
	}

	if ( ! empty( $args['exclude'] ) ) {
		$args['exclude'] = $args['exclude'] . ',' . $excluded_users;
	} else {
		$args['exclude'] = $excluded_users;
	}

	$qs = build_query( $args );

	return $qs;
}

add_action( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'bpdev_exclude_users', 20, 2 );

/**
 * Retrieves an array of user ids to exclude.
 *
 * NOTE:- It is not an efficient idea if you want to exclude thousands of users. There are better ways.
 *
 * @return array
 */
function bpdev_get_excluded_user_ids() {
	
	/*
	// Example: Limiting to certain roles only.
	$query = array(
		'role__not_in' => array( 'talent' ),  // List of roles to include.
		'fields'   => 'ID'
	);
	*/

	return get_users( $query );
}

I am not a developer. There is a line that says $excluded_users = join( ',', bpdev_get_excluded_user_ids() );. Was I supposed to put the roles I want excluded from the directory between the ” in join(','?

• This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by Stephanie. Reason: Add detail
• This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by Stephanie. Reason: Add more detail

I have found and tested the suggestions on this page https://buddydev.com/hiding-users-on-buddypress-based-site/ and it worked for me so I will mark this as resolved now.

For those who want to know how I did it: I used the main code for hiding users by user role written by Brajesh, then made the changes that user “Mitch” suggested and put it in the bp-custom.php file (Make a new text file and call it “bp-custom.php”, paste the code in, add the roles you want to exclude, and upload this to the hosting back end of your site to “wp-content/plugins”. I had about 5 user roles to exclude, so not a lot. If you want to exclude a lot, then I don’t know how to do it.

Thank you