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Buddypress v. 1.2.9
WP v. 3.2.1

Hi,
I’m trying to figure out a way to allow users to add new Posts to existing blog categories but with control over the categories they are allowed to post to… but I’m having no luck finding a way to do that.

Users are registered as Contributors.
This is a single site (not allowing them to create their own blogs)

When you click on the Dashboard > New Post link, you can see the actual dashboard in the site. It looks a bit tacky and confusing because you can see everyone’s posts in there as well as your own. There are hundreds…

1. I would like to disallow users from posting to the main category, and force them to choose a subcategory.
2. I would like to allow them to post on the frontend if possible, it’s not a major necessity (functionality is more important right now).

I have already tried the 2 plugins I found listed here in the forums, but they are both broken.

Perhaps I’m missing something in the settings for Buddypress? or maybe there’s a hack for this?

thanks!