Thank you.
I will put a copy for you to test a little bit late today. giving a final push for activity, if not, will disable that and push the copy.

Hi Jan,
Can you please look into my suggestions and let me know if that worked for you or not?

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Kenny,
Marking this topic as resolved a per email. The code works.

In future, if you are unable to post reply, please try refreshing the browser and you will be shown as properly logged in. It happens sometimes due to caching.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Kenny,
Welcome to BuddyDev forums.

Please use the following code

add_filter( 'bp_after_has_members_parse_args', 'buddydev_exclude_users_by_member_type' );
 
function buddydev_exclude_users_by_member_type( $args ) {
    //do not exclude in admin
    if ( is_admin() && ! defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
        return $args;
    }
    
    $excluded_member_type = isset( $args['member_type__not_in'] )? $args['member_type__not_in'] : array();
 
    if ( ! is_array( $excluded_member_type ) ) {
        $excluded_member_type = explode(',', $excluded_member_type );
    }
    
	//member types to exclude, change it
	$types_to_exclude = array( 'student', 'teacher' );//add your own list
    
    $excluded_member_type = array_merge( $excluded_member_type, $types_to_exclude );
    
    $args['member_type__not_in'] = $excluded_member_type;
    
    return $args;
}

You can specify one or more member type by their unique name in $types_to_exclude array.

Please let me know if that works or not?

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Jay,
Thank you for asking.

1. It’s is very resource intensive to block media completely by media file url. Even Facebook does not do that. If you have direct url to the image(image file), You can access it even on facebook. What facebook does is creates obfuscated file names to avoid simple recognition. It is still doable per media file, but I do not recommend that as it will exhaust the servers.

If we instead obfuscate the file name and use media page url instead of media file url(the file url is not visible, but someone can right click and say open image url ), It is easy to restrict users out of the box.

Yes, MediaPress is capable of blocking completely, but I do not recommend that method as it will a lot more exhustive for resources( example, filer are not directly accessible and are read via php, will consume memory and cpu).

2. MediaPress comes with doc files support. It also includes google doc viewer for doc files by default. So, all you need to do is configure the extensions on MediaPresssettings page. If you want to use a different viewer, It is possible to write that and plugin instead of google doc viewer.

So, easy solution will be marking a Media as friend only(or private) and only friends will be able to see that.

It is even possible to share a Media with an individual person(we have flexible API inbuilt, but that will need some custom coding to provide an interface).

Please let me know which way you want to go.

Thank you
Brajesh