This is similar to what I’ve been looking for, so far I’ve not found an easy way to do this. It’s not actually a BuddyPress issue, it’s bbPress that creates the Forum list. So this is a question for the bbPress support forum.
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Yes the default operation in BP groups is that you can only invite friends of your BP Profile. You can change this behaviour with Invite Anyone, which gives you the ability to invite your friends to join the site and for you to invite any BP user to the group, not just your friends.
Another plugin that you might like to think about is BP Auto Group Join, with this plugin you can ensure all new site members automatically join a group.
With these two plugins, you can invite your friends to join your site and make sure they all join your group at registration.
For points 1 and 2 you need to ask at the BuddyDev forums as they are not BP issues.
For point 3 you can edit BuddyPress emails in Dashboard>>Emails.
For point 4 there’s some plugins that will hide the admin bar for certain user types, I’ve not tried them but try searching the WordPress plugin repository one I saw that might do the trick is https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-admin-bar/
One way to do this would be to build the page using a suitable page builder such as Siteorigin and then insert the Members Widget into the area of your choice.
Another way to allow image uploads is to grant that member role the ability to perform media uploads by using a user role editor such as WPFront User Role Editor, then the usual Add Media Button will appear and images will appear in the media library.
If you do this you may want to install Separate Media to stop users seeing other peoples media uploads.
Henry do you think something like that could be written into core – a closed read only group as another option for group privacy settings? Seems like the longer these sites are going to be around the more demand there would be.
I think what you want done with the profiles is doable, you could configure the profile to display the families profile information and then ave a section for comments below that data. It would take a bit of coding but is achieveable.
The multi-lingual aspect worries me as some translation plugins can be really complex and tend to slow down the site too much, but it depends how far you are looking to go with that translation.
How are you going to handle these payments? Will they be managed through the site or completely separate from it?
