[rkilkenny]

@Gary, glad I, a noob, could be of some assistance albeit partial. The great thing about user forums is being able to share ideas and insights and help each other move forward.

[rkilkenny]

 
@Gary, I think you may have the flip side to my issue. I had the More Privacy Options turned on, but not the BP Private Community option. This resulted in protecting the pages that are not part of BP (e.g. Home), while leaving the BP pages (e.g. People) exposed. You did not turn on MPO, but did turn on Private Community. As a result your pages that are not part of BP are exposed, while your BP pages are protected.
 
The MPO plugin comes as part of the CBOX installation. If you are using a WP Network you can find it under Settings>Network Settings. At the bottom of the screen you will see “Network Visibility Selector.” If you are not using a Network the instructions are here https://commonsinabox.org/documentation/plugins/more-privacy-options

[rkilkenny]

@Matt, yes. I was using the Default CBOX theme. I also tried the BuddyPress default theme. The pages that were partially visible were People (aka Members), Groups and Activity.

Update —

Based on what Gary posted I now realize that the default CBOX theme has a BuddyPress Private Community setting among the options. I now have that set to “On.”

Results —

When I use the CBOX default theme with BP Private Community “on” all of the menu choices now take me to a logon screen. Home and Wiki take me to the WP default logon; Activity, Groups, Members, and Tracking take me to the CBOX logon.

When I use the BuddyPress default theme the following pages are still visible — Activity, Groups, Members, and Tracking. I can see activity information for individual members. I can see the list of individual members and can go down another level to access specific information on individual members. I can see the list of groups and go down one level. My test group is set to private. [By the way, buddypress.org has no BP themes listed.]

Conclusion —

I will use the CBOX theme (at least for the moment) and test, test, test as I make any modifications. If I do try out a Buddy Press theme again I will update my investigation of privacy plugins that specifically address BP.

Suggestion —

Unless I missed it I do not see in the CBOX documentation information regarding privacy settings. The information on the BP MPO Activity Filter does not mention the need to opt for the privacy setting under Options>BuddyPress for the CBOX theme. Privacy can be critical depending on the purpose for the site (in my case a site to be used by my students). I suggest that the installation documentation include a section on the several steps that are needed to secure the various privacy levels of an out of the box CBOX site.

Thanks to Matt and Gary for your help.

[rkilkenny]

No reason to apologize, I should have mentioned that I was testing as a non-logged in visitor.

Also I experience this problem with both the BP and CBOX themes.  I do not have this problem if I use the default WP theme, but that is not the theme I want to use.

Thanks.

[rkilkenny]

I tried changing the theme (I was using the CBOX theme) . At  the moment I am using Twenty Twelve and More Privacy Options seems to be working as expected? Might there be a compatibility issue between the CBOX theme and MPO?

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