[laura.lee]

I am not using BuddyPress for a forum. I am using BuddyPress for only volunteer groups on my website. I am just getting started with that. I tried to control access to the Group Page by WordPress Member Role… and running into issues. I see that persons want role control for reasons probably like mine. My site is a team membership site, it is not open to the general public. It’s not the vision of a community forum that I think persons are trying to force from their own vision of what a BuddyPress site “should be like”. 🙂 It’s like they are trying to force a square into round hole thinking that there should be no admin management by WordPress user role. 🙂 They’re thinking of an “open community”… and this is a closed community. If persons registered to my site and went to become member of a team in my team group… they would mess up my whole site and all of my volunteer structure. Not just anyone can join a volunteer team in my site.

So, enough said about why the BuddyPress vision of everyone is equal and should have power on a hosted website hosted by an individual for a specific cause… just is not a conducive philosophy to my website and my group creation.

But, here is a plug-in. I have reasons why it conflicts a bit with other things I am using… and I am not ready to implement this. But, check it out please…

http://presspermit.com/wp-content/uploads/PP-RS-Feature-Grid.pdf

– BuddyPress group as Permission Group

is an option on both the free and pro version of Permit Plus.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/faq/

Can Press Permit Pro do everything Role Scoper can do?
Press Permit Pro introduces some important new features, including custom post statuses,

BuddyPress group role assignments and bbPress compatibility

. For most sites, it is a functional equivalent to Role Scoper, with major improvements in UI and performance. A few of Role Scoper’s more obscure features are not currently provided by PP Pro:

HTTP Authentication for feeds
Supplemental roles and restrictions for links defined in wp-admin/link-manager.php
Customization of NextGEN Gallery editing permissions

Group membership requests and recommendations (but supplemental roles can be assigned to BuddyPress groups, inheriting any membership control)

Role assignment for limited content date range (but membership in custom-defined permission groups can be date-limited)

http://presspermit.com/extensions/

Plugin Extensions:
PP Compatibility Pack
PUBLISHED IN PLUGINS, PRESS PERMIT ON JUNE 7, 2013
PP Compatibility Pack
Adds compatibility and/or integration with bbPress, Relevanssi, CMS Tree Page View, Subscribe2, BuddyPress, WPML, various other plugins. For multisite, provides network-wide permission groups.

Read & Discuss »
PP Circles
PUBLISHED IN PLUGINS, PRESS PERMIT ON JUNE 7, 2013
PP Circles
Visibility Circles and Editorial Circles block access to content not authored by other group members. Any WP Role, BuddyPress Group or custom Group can be marked as a Circle for specified post types.

Read & Discuss »
PP Buddypress Role Groups
PUBLISHED IN PLUGINS, PRESS PERMIT ON JUNE 7, 2013
PP Buddypress Role Groups
Modify any BuddyPress group’s access to specified content. Assign type-specific supplemental roles and post-specific exceptions as with PP-defined groups.

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I haven’t tried these… I am not far enough along in my website construction. Plus, sadly, the role scoper has group request and add… the new version doesn’t… and I am as stubborn as a horse lead to water that won’t drink… when asked to give up a feature I LOVE!! 🙂 I don’t want to give up that group feature I would lose from Role Scoper. So, I have not migrated.

Here’s some solutions for you that you can try, that I have read about.. but I have not tried myself yet.

**The author of these plug-ins ought to be a multi-millionaire… but lacks in sales and marketing skills. 🙂 But, I’m helping him out here for free. lol

Blessings!

Cheers!

Laura Lee

[laura.lee]

Thanks ~~ got my child theme deleted off of Cpanel. (At least I “self-helped” to know to make a child theme in case this ever happened.) Deleted it, my site is back… and I don’t want to try that again… because, no, it was not clear. But my site is up.

[laura.lee]

Trust me… btw… if I can find a different program than BuddyPress… I will use a different program than BuddyPress with my WordPress site… because of this.

I hope there is a different program that will work well with WordPress… cuz I don’t want to use this program now.

[laura.lee]

I just want to share what I really think. No, none of this is clear. I don’t want to hear about “self help”. That’s total disrespect for those of us who have no experience or knowledge at ANY of this. I know NOTHING about these ignoramus code junket snippet all of that.

And, NO, it was NOT CLEAR what place to put that code was… not even after “self help” and reading the unclear comments here and elsewhere at links and further. Thank you… I blew up my website putting it in the wrong place. Which wouldn’t be terribly frustrating… if it wasn’t for the mean-spirited “self-help” comments and all the other lack of clarity in everything that I read about it… resulting in me putting it in the wrong place.

Just sharing… because it would be one thing to mess up and blow up my website due to instructions I could not understand because I have zero background in these files.

It’s a learn as I go kind of thing. But, it’s salt in a wound that these remarks were made here.

Thanks.