BuddyPress

I’ve been running a buddypress site for the last 10 months called yeah! Hackney http://www.yeahhackney.com it’s a (hyper)local community site for a borough in London.
I think buddypress is awesome, the work that the developers have done on it mean that someone like me (a non-developer) can build a community site that works.
I have a lot of plugins and have done a lot of tweaking, but it’s working almost as I want it right now.
I currently have 820 members which means there is enough people to keep content fresh – but that grows every day

Really cool I have a soft spot for community use like this of BuddyPress – great use. Nice amount of members and done from ground up always puts a smile on my face

Thanks

@ewebber, your site looks inviting! Alas, I live in Las Vegas. If you don’t mind, which plugin are you using for the “Business” tab as well as the categories? Thank you!

@qrahaman I use Another Classified Wordpress plugin

How did you get the word out about your site?

@h32 with a lot of hard work tapping into the local community in various ways

Hi. Where are the controls so I can stop members from creating groups?

Thanks,
Steve

@harty is this in response to the email that you sent me?

For the benefit of the forum, the question came from:

I am building a similar site in new Zealand and wonder if you can tell me how you separated out and formatted the local business section.
So far, my site has attracted people who create groups as adverts for their business, which is very disappointing.
How do you manage this?

I think there is a plugin that can do it, or you can use php if statements to choose who sees what.
A real developer can correct me if that’s not a great way to do it.

@ewebber, thanks for the info.

@harty, in response to ewebber’s recent post, I would consider what she did with her site: establish terms and conditions per her About page, and for those businesses that want to advertise, provide a mechanism for that to happen. This will be inline with a “pull” vs “push” strategy which is what I believe you’re going for.

Yes, but people don’t read the rules, they are useful so they you can remove posts later, but it won’t completely stop them. I do restrict group creation now, but I wouldn’t have wanted to start the site that way.

Going through the forums and having spent hours searching the net, I can’t see any current up to date plugin that prevents group creation. I have also tried a few codes in php files with no positive result.
Unless I am missing something, this feature is sought after by many bp users.

@Harty, i think you can just hide group creation button withh css, pending the time you will find a permanent solution.

regards

Just found this plugin: http://buddydev.com/plugins/limit-groups-per-user/installation/
While it stops members creating groups (if set to zero) the button still appears, so I can imagine members frantically clicking it wondering why a new group isn’t being created.

Also tried this one: http://bp-tricks.com/coding/manage-group-creation-by-creating-a-group-request-form/
but couldn’t figure how to make it work.

Good idea about altering the CSS to hide the button (although it would probably hide it from me as well).
Harty

@ewebber excellent site by the way. Glad to see you’re successfully giving back to your community.