Thank you so much Brajesh, …. This works absolutely so well for me… just what I wanted for the protection of my blogs.

I believe this snippet will be very useful for other people using the “categories for group blog” plugin. (deserves to be in code snippets section)

I can now have home pages for my groups

I create the groups as public groups but Members still have to request permission (using the “Alternative Public Group Control plugin”)

Your snippet ensures that non members cannot read the blog even if they see the excerpts of the group anywhere on the site

Voila… the group post are protected!!

The only thing left for me to do is get the blog items that were created before the groups protected.

Can you please tell me if there is a way to identify group post that were created from the “front end” and the ones that were created from the “admin panel” in the PhpMyAdmin panel…

and if there is anything I can add in the phpmyadmin panel to convert each post created in the admin panel so that they behave as if it was created from the group blog.

This will help convert some of my old blogs into full group blogs…. making them protected too

I don’t mind going through each post in the phpmyadmin to add a couple of lines

Kind Regards

Hi Brajesh,

Let me tell you what I have done for now to get round the problem… not perfect… but I do get round the problem for now

I have a group called “catfish group”

I have 3 categories that I want to attach to a private group

Category 1 – I want catfish group members to be able to post content
Category 2 – I want catfish group members to be able to post content
Category 3 – I as the admin want to post to this section but I dont want catfish group members to be able to post here although they should have read access.

I want the members of the catfish group to be able to see and be able to read all the post from the 3 categories however I dont want any catfish group member to post to category 3.

** What I have done so far to achieve what I want **

I created a custom post type called “Blog” and set up the following BLOG categories

Category XX (I left “XX” unticked )
– subcategory 1 (I ticked “1” to enable members to post to)
– subcategory 2 (I ticked “2” to enable members to post to)
– subcategory 3 ( left “3” unticked – this is for Admin post)

I use the “Blog categories for Groups plugin” with the option to “Link to normal site blog post page.”

I use the menu to show CATEGORY XX as the Catfish Group Blog Page

Since Category XX is displayed using the menu… and because it is a main category all the post in sub category 1, 2 and 3 show up on the Category XX Page

** THE RESULTS **

Catfish Group Members can only post to category 1 and 2 but not category 3 or XX

Catfish Group Members can read all the post from category 1, 2 and 3

Group post in 1 and 2 post are both protected since they were ticked as the catfish group category to post to

****The problem****

Category XX and Category 3 are unprotected

This work around is too long and I have to do the same thing for the other 5 groups I have.

*** The Proposed Solution***

A code that we could enter into the bp-custom section that restrict an array of a group of blog category ids that the group members cannot post to … maybe something that restricts users that dont have admin rights

A better alternative will be in the admin panel section… where you can write in a list of categories that members cannot post to but maybe admins can post to.

Hope my explanation is understandable…. a little bit long winded ,,, but difficult to explain…haha

Kind regards

Thanks for the response, Brajesh.

What about if I made the groups “public” and use the method suggested by imath using the “Alternative Public Group Control plugin”?

I seem to be able to get the home page to display for all “Public groups” using this method and members have to request to join the group before they can see all the other tabs

The only problem I have is how to protect my “group blog”. Although the blog tab is removed in the buddypress area… the contents of the group blog are still accessible .

I have a blog for each of the groups using the “blog categories for group plugin” which I have achieved by using the setting “Link to normal site blog post page”

Is there a way that I can still protect the blog content… so that if you are not a member of a particular group… you cannot read the full content of the article.

…so if you are in group A … you cannot read group B blog except you join

I hope I am clear with my explanation of what I am trying to achieve

Kind Regards

Thank you very much for taking the time to help investigate the problem.

Looking forward to the updates.

Kind Regards

I am using WordPress verion 5.03

Its a multisite and i have define( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );

I can private message you with details of login access for my test site if you so wish

Kind Regards