I have BuddyPress (1.5.5) with WPMU (3.3.2)

I’d like to automaticall enable all new users to be able to post on the main blog. How do I do this?

In normal WordPress I would go to ‘Settings’ and select the option to make newly registered users into ‘Contributors’. But that option isn’t available with BP.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Oli

[@hnla Participant 14 years ago]

Not BP’s fault – MS fault!

You can try going to /wp-admin/options.php and set the default user role from there.

[@elangley Participant 14 years ago]

@olihaslam Please check out:

Multisite User Management
Add user role to site during registration
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-user-management/

@elangley

~eric

[@olihaslam Participant 14 years ago]

Thanks Hugo. Having only used ‘normal’ WP I’m still trying to work out what comes from BP and what from MS.

@elangley – Thanks for the recommendation – it has done the trick, I think.

Cheers for your help.

[@olihaslam Participant 14 years ago]

One more question:

Once a user has rights to post to the main blog, how do they actually start a post? Is clicking ‘Dashboard’ then ‘New Post’ in the top admin bar the only way?

[@hnla Participant 14 years ago]

Pretty much – unless you want to start going down the frontend posting route, but that can start to get tricky.

[@olihaslam Participant 14 years ago]

Cheers!