In WordPress each user role has a number of assigned capabilities, I’m looking for you to tell me a capability that the Member has that the visitor does not.
Possibly a good template plugin would be https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-xprofile-rich-text-field/ it’s got the filters and actions you’d need. It’s not straightforward, you’d need to extend the BP xProfile Field Type class in order to have it as part of the xProfile field type collection by the looks of things. I agree it would be nice to have it documented but we have what we have. Maybe one of you can strip down one of these plugins and write it up for the rest of us?
The other option is to ask either of the collection plugins to add your type to their collection?
Member is not part of WordPress’s default roles, so you must have created this using the user role editor you posted the link to. When you did that, you must have added some extra capabilities above the default subscriber, it’s one of those extra capabilities that we need.
Ah good, you are using a user role editor, that should make this easy, simply find a role that the member has that the other users do not, that could be publish-posts or similar. Then you would add that as the capability required.
You could work out a code snippet to do this, but you would still need to know the capability to filter on.
I’m pretty sure we can get it to work for you. What you need to work out is a capability level that your chosen role has that the other roles to not, set that as the restriction in the form and save it.
Which role do you wish to allow group creation for?
The first question is if you have overloaded any template files? These would be located in themes/your-child-theme/buddypress
If you have files in directories in there then switching the BP Theme could cause errors.
If not then it’s worth switching to Legacy just to see if it works. However that’s not really solving the issue and if you are getting JS errors the same errors could stop the Legacy theme from working too.
Nouveau is the latest BP Theme ans it came with extra customisation options in Customizer but if you have not used these then there’s very little difference between the two theme views.
Might be worth letting me know what those error are so I can advise further. The other option would be to deactivate all of your other plugins and see if that fixes the problem but it’s a bit longwinded if you have some errors – better to address those first.
That’s interesting, with the LEgacy theme you have to enter the name without the @ but with Nouveau you have to enter the @ for the autocomplete to work. But either way on my test system both autocompletes work.
If you right click on the page, select Inspect Element and choose Console are you seeing any JavaScript errors?
We’ve had a few requests for Fan Page functionality recently so I took a look at the announce group code to see what changes could be made to turn it into a fan page plugin. Other than changing the name to fan page I also noted that it did not prevent group members from creating new topics in the forum so I’ve forked the plugin and added those changes. Hopefully that will deliver something like what you are looking for. I’ll submit it to WordPress.org and let you know once it’s live.
