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Wbcom Designs – Private Community for BuddyPress

Create a private BuddyPress community by restricting access to non-members. Control who sees what with flexible privacy settings.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.8
Current version2.1.2
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.8
Minimum stackWP 4.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update28 Nov 202511mo ago
Active installations300Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.9 / 5 from 25 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Wbcom Designs – Private Community for BuddyPress version 2.1.2 as active, updated 11mo ago and tested up to WordPress 6.8.

Overview

About this plugin

Turn your BuddyPress site into an exclusive private community in minutes!

0 helps you create members-only areas on your WordPress site. Whether you’re building a company intranet, paid membership site, or exclusive community, this plugin gives you complete control over who can access your content.

🎯 Perfect For:

• Company intranets and team portals

• Paid membership communities

• Private family or group websites

• Educational course platforms

• Exclusive member networks

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We’ve completely rebuilt the plugin from the ground up with a focus on simplicity and performance. The new tabbed interface makes setup a breeze, while powerful features work behind the scenes to keep your site secure.

🔒 Two Simple Protection Modes:

1. Partial Protection – Keep some areas public

• Lock specific member directories or group pages

• Protect certain URLs while keeping others open

• Use wildcards to protect entire sections (like /premium/*)

2. Full Protection – Lock everything except what you choose

• Make your entire site members-only

• Whitelist specific pages for public access

• Perfect for private company sites

⚙️ How Your Visitors See It:

• Built-in Login – Beautiful login form that matches your theme

• Custom Forms – Use your favorite form plugin

• Smart Redirect – Send visitors to a specific welcome page

💪 Why Choose Private Community?

• Set up in 2 minutes – No complicated configurations

• Works with any theme – Tested with popular BuddyPress themes

• Lightning fast – Optimized for sites with thousands of pages

• Secure by default – Blocks brute force attacks automatically

• Always compatible – Regular updates for latest WordPress versions

Documentation

📚 Comprehensive Documentation Available:

• User Guide – Complete setup and configuration guide

• Developer Guide – Hooks, filters, and API reference

• Testing Guide – Quality assurance and testing procedures

THEME – WORDPRESS THEME WITH OUTSTANDING BUDDYPRESS SUPPORT

  • FREE BuddyPress Theme: BuddyX – Offers unique layouts with clean code and easy-to-customize options, giving you a whole new way to visualize BuddyPress.

OUR ADON PLUGINS TO FURTHER IMPROVE YOUR BUDDYPRESS OR BUDDYBOSS PLATFORM COMMUNITY

Check out free community add-ons by Wbcom Designs:

  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Member Reviews Allow members to add ratings or feedback to other community members.
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Group Reviews Allow members to add ratings or feedback to BuddyPress groups.
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Activity Social Share Allow members to share activities on their social profiles like Facebook, Twitter, What’s App, LinkedIn with OG metadata.
  • Wbcom Designs – Private Community with BP Lock A plugin to make your community private and only accessible to logged-in users. It also allows you to keep select pages or the component public.
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Job Manager Allows your to integrate WP Job Manager plugin to BuddyPress.
  • Wbcom Designs – Check-ins for BuddyPress Activity Allow members to add their location or post their Check-ins updates to activity.
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Favorite Notification Allow members to be notified after any like or favorite on their BuddyPress activity.
  • Wbcom Designs – Shortcodes & Elementor Widgets For BuddyPress It offers shortcodes and elementor widgets for the activity listing, member’s directory display, and the group’s directory on any post/page.

Check out paid community add-ons by Wbcom Designs:

  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Hashtags Allows members to use hashtags in BuddyPress or BuddyBoss Platform activities and bbPress topics..
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Polls It allows you to extend BuddyPress or BuddyBoss Platform Activity for members to publish Polls with various options and works perfectly for individual activities and group activities.
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Quotes It allows the feature to let members post their activity updates with interactive background selection such as colors and images set by the site administrator to tell a more expressive story.
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Status & Reaction Allow your members to set a status icon and tagline on their profile and offer a big set of icons to react to published activities.
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Profanity Allow you to censor content in your community! Easily Censor all the unwanted words in activities, private messages contents by specifying a list of keywords to be filtered.
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Sticky Post Allows site administrators to prioritize certain activities over others. It lets admin pin-up site-wide and group activities to the top of the activity list.
  • Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Auto Friends Allow the site admin to select global friends for all his members and add bulk global friends.
  • Wbcom Designs – Shortcodes & Elementor Widgets For BuddyPress Pro It offers shortcodes and elementor widgets with various argument parameters for the activity listing, member’s directory display, and the group’s directory on any post/page.

EXPERT SUPPORT

We are ready to provide incredible support. Ask your questions at contact us directly.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • restrict access
  • buddypress
  • lock
  • privacy
  • private
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity28 Nov 202511mo ago

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