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I am working on a social restaurant listing site . We are taking over groups and making them “restaurants”, which members can join. The client really wants members to keep lists of restaurants (groups) they have been to and those they haven’t. Is there a way – or existing plugin – that will do this? [...]

I need to change the default status when groups are created. They are originally set to ‘public’ and I want all new groups to be ‘private’ unless otherwise indicated by the user. Where would I find this in the code? Somewhere in bp-groups-classes.php?

Any direction is greatly appreciated