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The Privacy settings allow you to restrict access to your website, REST APIs, and RSS feeds to logged-in members only. This is especially useful for private communities, paid memberships, and internal platforms. This manual walks you through each setting.
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Privacy Settings
Navigate to your WordPress Dashboard, go to BuddyBoss > Settings > Advanced > Privacy.
Toggle each restriction on or off and click Save Changes when done. In all cases, login and registration pages remain publicly accessible.
- Private Website: Restricts site access to logged-in members only, preventing public visitors from browsing community content.
- Private REST APIs: Restricts REST API access to logged-in members only, blocking public API calls. If your BuddyBoss App is currently public, also enable Private App inside the BuddyBoss App settings to ensure API protection extends to mobile.
- Private RSS Feeds: Restricts RSS feed access to logged-in members only, preventing public content scraping and protecting member-only content.
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