Private groups
For bbPress - Creates private forum groups
4.9(49 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Private groups is a WordPress bbp plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 49 reviews. It has been downloaded 152K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: bbp style pack.
4.9/549 reviews
1.0K+active installs
152K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
An add-on to the bbPress forum plugin – creates private forum groups
This Plugin creates unlimited private forum groups.
Forums are then allocated to one or more groups, and users allocated to one or more groups.
What this achieves
unlimited private groups
Each user is set to a group or groups, and each forum can have any or all the groups associated with it
Any number of public forums combined with any number of group forums. The group forums can be individually set to public or private.
Forum title and description (but not topics or replies) can be set to be visible to non-group users, allowing people to see that a forum exists but not access it
Separate pages can be set to allow redirection of non group users for sign-up or information
Topic Permissions
Topic Permissions is desi…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.949 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Granular, well explained, works like a charm
by smoothkeyboard62·1 year ago
Exactly what I needed. A simple, yet powerful solution. Very well documented inside the Settings area.
Wonderful Plugin
by olesuper8·2 years ago
Just works wonderfully, I’m really impressed.
Very impressed
by acrspf·2 years ago
While testing, I was already impressed with the functionality, then had a minor bug issue and it was fixed within 24 hours with a few emails. Now that’s superb support 🙂
Super plugin that works great and helped with some real headaches. The interface is intuitive and powerful without being complex. This allows the sort of finer grained permissions that WordPress should incorporate in the first place.
-Andy from the US
Confusing
by mllapan·3 years ago
This plugin unfortunately is a total mess.
We need a simple plugin that let us make bbPress private.
Such a plugin is for advanced things, but even like that it is very confusing.
Forum Visibility tab.
This tab allows you to set forum visibility.
By default where the forum has groups set, then these are only visible to authorised users. However you may want users to see that forums exist (to attract new forum users), but not to see content.
I am like: “What?”
I did not create any groups of anything as I know.
Movies don’t start from the end, or the middle but from the beginning, and so should tutorials.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by mllapan.
Great bbPress plugin !
by DeepBlue·3 years ago
Works great as intended
A great addition to a bbPress forum
easy to install & configure
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.9
92.3%
Other
7.7%
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Changelog
3.9.7 Amendment for topic subscriptions to correctly show topics a user is subscribed to.
3.9.6 Amendments to the processing of topics and replies in profiles to prevent issues for large sites
3.9.5 minor change to a link to ensure it correctly runs if site is in a sub directory
3.9.4 minor change to allow redirect to be filterable
3.9.3 fix for metabox undefined variable
3.9.2 amended tested up to value
3.9.1 amend enforce permissions test in functi…
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