@mercime Thanks for the reply. I didn’t design the custom theme so not confident in changing to Twenty Twelve to test your theory, I’ll have to wait for my friend, the theme designer, to get back to me to test it.
But I’ve now established that it’s ( when deactivated) the User Role editor that is stopping people from joining a private group within the website. It had a very recent update. But I still need to find out why ‘contributors’ are not able to add blog posts and events
I’ll keep plugging away. No pun intended 🙂
Thanks again.
Lynn
