Hi Mike,
I just wanted to let you know I’ve not forgotten this, far from it in fact. One of the sites I look after came under a massive multifaceted DOS attach this week, and I’ve been throwing tonnes of features into my plugin to stem off the impact of it. So I’ve learnt a lot and have a bunch of ideas for additional features. I’ve just not been able to get the time to pull out my code for hiding things from search.
One thing I learnt was how good BP’s own privacy implementation is compared to the other free resources and I want to spend some time understanding these better so my own plugin can compliment rather than duplicate that aspect. Interesting though that I had one site where that option was not showing up, and it turned out to be our old friend the permalinks reset issue that was stopping it. No idea why that would be the case, but I think we should have a plugin that regularly resets the permalinks for us automatically as many people, including myself often forget to check this when troubleshooting and it would be good to take that issue away for people.