Hey Brajesh.

I feel bad to ask but there is one more thing I want to add if it’s at all possible. My boyfriend suggested it and I like this idea.

Is it possible to have an opt in or opt out checkbox for filtering member types. So let’s say, the standard is that all members from all member types can see each other, but, if you check the box in your profile settings (create a condition) then it hides you from other member types – in this case I would designate International member type – that could be specified in php or in additional setting you add. It could work in reverse too. Similar concept like Privacy setting in BP which hides you from other members or only shows you to friends if you choose to hide yourself.

The reason I’m asking about it is I spoke to some people and also I did a HotJar poll on my site last couple of days and 75% of poll takers have expressed interest in meeting members from other countries and long distance relationship so I am on the fence what to do – hide or not. But, what goes along with it, there will be people who do not want to be contacted by people from other countries and that might make them upset to get a lot of messages from people they have no interest in due to distance. So if they can opt out, that can make everyone be happy.

Is that a crazy/complicated thing to ask or is that a simple enough function? 🙂

Daria

Hi Brajesh,

Thanks! I’m glad I tested it out and it works in essence but I have further requests/questions. Can you see if you can help me with this – is this even possible.

• I am currently filtering out like this:
// Map of visible member types based on the member type.
// ‘male’, ‘female’ are member type names.
$visible_types_map = array(
‘international’ => ‘international’,
‘usandcanada’ => ‘usandcanada’,
);

But, my members also have a secondary member type Man and Woman. Is it possible to have this condition specify to show only members to International that have “international, man” and “international, woman”. So it hides “uscanada, man” and uscandcanada, woman”. Basically they have to meet those two conditions to show and hide. And vice versa. Does it make sense?

• Also, on /members page the members are filtered out but if the International member clicks on Groups or Activity, and they select a member, they can click on that person’s profile and contact them. Which makes the whole hiding of directory pointless. Can we add a filter so they can’t see the profile when they click on it? A message that says, “You have no access to this profile”, something like that. And not allow to message and add a friend. Is that doable? I don’t mind if they see that person’s thumbnail in activity or Group. Just no contact options.

If you could make this work, it would be great, if not, then maybe the filtering won’t work and I have to have them all together in one bucket. US and Canada is my main market and I want to keep it separate if possible.

Thank you

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Daria Wilczynska.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Daria Wilczynska.

Hi Brajesh,

I recently bought your plugin Member Types Pro and decided to go with one site route vs Multisite. It seems to work well so far and I was also able to organize my members into Men and Women so they display separately on custom members page, which is nice.

Can you point me in your documentation how to hide certain member types from the other member types in the directory. I can’t seem to find it, I only see info the hide content, not members. Or does that mean I need two separate directory pages. Please advise.

Thank you

Daria

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Daria Wilczynska.