Restrict access to communities in BuddyPress & BuddyBoss for free or premium members with the top WordPress membership plugin Paid Memberships Pro

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Paid Memberships Pro

<h3>The most popular WordPress plugin for private communities.</h3>
<p>Use BuddyPress or BuddyBoss with Paid Memberships Pro to create a members-only private community in your WordPress site. This plugin enables secure, private messaging, groups, member directories, and private profiles for members of your free or paid community.</p>
<p>This integration allows the site owner to control access to the most popular community features in BuddyPress and BuddyBoss.</p>
<h3>Restrict Community Features</h3>
<p>Use this BuddyPress and BuddyBoss plugin to restrict your membership site for multiple user types including visitors, non-members, and members. Offer private groups, private messaging, a member directory, and more in your private social network.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Groups:</strong> Restrict the ability for visitors and members to view, join, and create groups. You can also restrict access to the list of available groups in your community.</li>
<li><strong>Messaging:</strong> Restrict the ability for visitors and members to send public or private messages.</li>
<li><strong>Friends:</strong> Restrict the ability for visitors and members to send or accept friend requests.</li>
<li><strong>Member Directories:</strong> Restrict visitors and members from being included in the member directory.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Restrict Forums and Community Discussions</h3>
<p>If you include discussion boards and forums in your community, check out our <a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/pmpro-bbpress/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-bbpress" rel="nofollow ugc">bbPress Integration</a>. With BuddyPress or BuddyBoss and PMPro you can:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Restrict Forum Discussions</strong> by Membership Level.</li>
<li><strong>Assign a Forum Role</strong> by Membership Level.</li>
<li><strong>Adjust the error message shown</strong> when a user does not have permission to view discussions.</li>
<li><strong>Show a member’s level name</strong> in line with their discussion replies. This helps other community members see another member’s access level.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/buddypress-integration/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-buddypress" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about protecting your members-only community with Paid Memberships Pro in our documentation site</a>.</p>
<h3>Compatible with BuddyPress and BuddyBoss</h3>
<p>Like BuddyPress, the BuddyBoss Platform turns your WordPress site into a robust community, with social networking features including groups, discussions, messaging, friends, and more. Community users can organize themselves into public, private, or hidden social areas with separate activity feeds and directories.</p>
<p>The platform is an evolution of BuddyPress and bbPress, consolidated into a single area of settings. For this reason, you can use the existing PMPro Add Ons for BuddyPress and bbPress to restrict features in BuddyBoss.</p>
<h3>About Paid Memberships Pro</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-buddypress" rel="nofollow ugc">Paid Memberships Pro is a WordPress membership plugin</a> that puts you in control. Create what you want and release in whatever format works best for your business.</p>
<ul>
<li>Courses & E-Learning</li>
<li>Private podcasts</li>
<li>Premium Newsletters</li>
<li>Private Communities</li>
<li>Sell physical & digital goods</li>
</ul>
<p>Paid Memberships Pro allows anyone to build a membership site—for free. Restrict content, accept payment, and manage subscriptions right from your WordPress admin.</p>
<p>Paid Memberships Pro is built “the WordPress way” with a lean core plugin and over 75 Add Ons to enhance every aspect of your membership site. Each business is different and we encourage customization. For our members we have a library of 300+ recipes to personalize your membership site.</p>
<p>Paid Memberships Pro is the flagship product of Stranger Studios. We are a bootstrapped company which grows when membership sites like yours grow. That means we focus our entire company towards helping you succeed.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/" rel="ugc">Try Paid Memberships Pro entirely for free on WordPress.org</a> and see why 100,000+ sites trust us to help them #GetPaid.</p>
<h3>Read More</h3>
<p>Want more information on members-only communities, private groups and messaging, and WordPress membership sites? Have a look at:</p>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-buddypress" rel="nofollow ugc">Paid Memberships Pro</a> official homepage.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/buddypress-integration/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-buddypress" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Integration for PMPro documentation page</a>.</li>
<li>Also follow PMPro on <a href="https://twitter.com/pmproplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFtMIeYJ4_YVidi1aq9kl5g" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PaidMembershipsPro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>.</li>
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