Any Idea about that? WOuld be very useful…
I think this is a good enhancement – a default group and a default friend. At the end of the day, you want new users to get engaged – this can help with that. Maybe you can open a ticket in trac and request the feature/enhancement?
default friend is already exist somewhere on this forum (but i’m afraid it’s not working )
default group… well, it’s not so difficult to modify, that plugin, i think.
do you want to create members and add the to specific groups while creating them?
this piece of code may help you in adding the user to group.
//this will give the groups for the logged in user.
$groupIDs = get_userGroups($bp);
//from the groupIDs you can create the group object
$group = new BP_Groups_Group( $group_id )
//make the user assigned to the specific group. pass the user id of the new member
groups_join_group($groupID,$user_id);
Thanks ageeshkg, sounds good. Now I’m not a coder (more of a copy-paster 
). Does your suggestion work on signup (because there is no logged-in-user yet, isn’t it?). I would like to create a pulldown or something on the wp-signup-page, where the becoming user chooses their groups.
You piece of code – where should I put it?
Thanks and sorry – I am a greenhorn…
I would also be interested in Default Groups and Default Friends
+1
(not super-high on my “to do” list, or I’d offer payment to create this…soon though)
Was waiting until I could get this on to the official WordPress plugin directory, but:
svn co http://svn.dangerous-minds.com/djpaul/welcome-pack/trunk/
That does Default Friend and Default Group. A later version will have Default Welcome Message (guess what that does..).
Cool thing – thanks DJPaul!
Question: Is it possible to add a new User to specific groups based on a profile-field they choose (say a dropdown)?
@Michael
Not with my plugin. But is it possible if you write such a thing? Yes.
Thanks – if yould I would 
