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I previously abandoned similar project.. but here i’m not getting it.. what you mean by: “Of course group admin can modify the content from their group page (not via admin section).”

Do you want group members to put description of their own? I guess even in the facebook page, only admin can put description about that page.. Members can only likes and comments, that’s it.

Am I missing your points? Can you elaborate more?

Group extras allows you to create an extra page for a group and set that as the homepage I think, maybe that is worth a look? Only the editing options are not good

I think the issue is that most people, when creating a group, want to include in the description page images, videos, proper formatting etc.

The BP Group description is simply a line or tow of unformatted text that appears at the top of each group.

Surely any group owner would like to have a page where they can explain in detail about the group, with any information they want, including media? You’d think there would be a solution for that. Group extra’s I think comes the closest, but it hides it’s pages under a subpage and you can’t make it home as far as I can see.

I had a play with Groups Extras and using it the group admin can create a page that includes images and formatted text and set that to be the group home page. It’s not strightforward though and the editing is very basic, on top of that the meny item for that page is always going to be pages but I think this is the closest you are going to get.

Yes a front end post is important too, but clearly anything someone writes as a group description/introduction will get lost as the blog categories for groups plugin always displays the latest blog first when its clicked on in the groups directory. Another issue with that particular page is that it will only display one page of results and has no ability to see older posts that are off that page. But still, you can always ask the developer to add that feature, I don’t think it would be hard.

Ah! Now I got it what you’re trying to achieve..

Well, that is very much doable but then this is no easy task..

If you want to include images and other styling options, you can replace the plain text form with tinymce rich text editor by putting some codes in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/create.php. But remember, simply enabling rich editor will not work unless you allow the img & other relevant tags, else it will strip off and data will not be saved..

You can manage the wp media library to view able to only the person who uploaded the media.. This way it will not mixed up with many other users with their files..

And for hiding the content or long description, you can use js to show/hide..

You can also add other template pages if you need other separate pages for description like address, events etc.. Remove the default no-ajax nav items and replace it with your own custom items.. You can also ajax them, if you want them to.. They looks pretty straight but are more complicated that what you just read.. I did the similar kind of work before..

I’m not sure if you’re looking something like this: http://imgur.com/a/k9SbZ

Hi,

Is there a premade plugin to achieve that instead of coding as We are not a coder?

Usually, where do people put group description and their activities in Buddypress?

Thanks

Ah, just found out that this plugin causes a conflict with BuddyPress Group Extras, so avoid it, by the looks of things it’s unlikely to get fixed anytime soon.

That’s interesting, what widget is being used to display the group activity?

For those reading this and still looking for a solution, I am using ‘buddyforms’ and ‘buddyforms add post to group’. Buddyforms is a front end posting plugin with heaps of features. For my site I created a CPT called communities and when the form is submitted it automatically creates a group. I am also using a plugin called ‘Address Autocomplete Using Google Place Api’. I have added a text feild with google locations to my community forms. All my groups are now searched using geomywp and they have category filters. I am also adding child posts (created with buddyforms) to my community post types. Now my groups are called communities, they have locations, custom feilds, child posts (multiple forums, events, posts, documents, products) and all the features that groups offer.