BuddyPress Private Community
This plugin makes your BuddyPress community private. Only logged in members can view the social areas in full. You can configure the default settings.
2.5(2 reviews)
·20 active installs·Updated 15 years agoAs of April 2026, BuddyPress Private Community is a WordPress secret plugin with 20 active installations and a 2.5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 35K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Oomph Hidden Tags.
2.5/52 reviews
20active installs
35K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
This plugin makes your BuddyPress community private. You can control which areas of your site are accessible to logged out users in two ways, “restrict site access, but allow some public pages” or “allow site access, but restrict some private pages”. This plugin also can block widgets from logged out users and block all RSS feeds.
In the default mode (restrict access, but allow some public pages), logged out users only have access to your homepage, or access to a list of pages/areas that you’d like to make public. Logged in members have full site access.
If you visit the community when you’re logged out and you’re visiting a private page, then you’re redirected to a landing page of your choice (defaults to the homepage).
You can set uris tha…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to false |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
0.6
- IMPORTANT! BREAKABLE UPDATE: Changed how sub-directory installations are handled. Now you must set the ::$WP_SUB_FOLDER variable to the folder where your community is. (my-domain.com/community/{BP_SITE}, then ::$WP_SUB_FOLDER=’community’. ALLOWED_URIS would now look like this array(‘/about’) instead of array(‘/community/about’) in this example – meaning that the ALLOWES_URIS are always written in the same way relative to your BP site_url.) See FAQs or the example config file.
- Added another mode allowing you to give access to logged out users but block a few private pages/URIs (MODE_BLOCK_NONE_AND_NOT_ALLOW_SOME_URIS).
- Added the ability to display/block widgets (depending on the mode) by their id (ALLOWED_WIDGET_IDS & NOT_$ALLOWED_WIDGET_IDS).
- Changed how widgets are block, so they should be block on all themes (including two widget column themes).
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