bp adminbar requires a little work in that respect, I’ve created my own set of links for users with elevated roles from ‘Subscriber’ have a look at :
https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/
It will give you some guidance to modifying the adminbar.
Ok I figured it out. The author role does have the ability to make blog posts… Its just that through their buddypress interfaced account.. they’re never given a link to —-> http://www.saltbored.com/sdcityrobotics/wp-admin/post-new.php… to create one. Where in the buddypress front end can they choose to “create a new post”. or to get to the back end WordPress interface to see the dashboard?
Why can’t the author role create blog posts it ought to be able to that’s the point of the role!
So what I have left to try is setting up the default author role to be able to create blog posts. This is where I was trying to get with messing with the permissions through a plugin. I don’t know how much I care about this feature.. because this introduces group members to the entire wordpress backend.. and I’d like to just have each account only make blog posts and edit nothing.
also… this may seem simple.. but how do i get the site to show with the url structure i described before?
I’ve posted on this forum topic issue previously, but in a nutshell this can cure the issue, go into the group as admin access the admin settings for the group – admin->group settings and ensuring the create forum box is checked re save that initial page then try again to post a topic; hopefully that will ensure the table exists in the DB.
Ok Great news. The “Mail-From” plugin totally worked. The default address was previously set to a default email that didn’t exist!
The account gets created, the confirmation email gets sent and in testing out the functionality of a test user joining a group, posting documents, replies, and forum topics… Everything works except the Forum Post creation. Logged in as a test user (permission set as “author”.. from the Group Forums Directory, click add post, enter all the required text/tags.. and when submitted get a red bar across the screen error that says… “There was an error when creating the topic”.. and nothing gets created. Any thoughts? Is this a permission or forum issue? The Test User account can post to the activity area for the groups the account is in with no problems.
In respect of role management plugins I would recommend Justin Tadlocks ‘Members 0.1.1’ . Tested three out of around four or five available and found the other two mildly confusing but Justins was the most featured and usable with a useful selectable modular approach. Roles and Capabilities need to be understood though as it’s extremely easy to get things badly wrong if not sure what capabilities do what. Ability to create new Roles though does extend the flexibility of things quite a lot, even if they have the same capabilities it would allow for a form of pseudo user grouping.
Paul,
Thank you so much for your insight! Here’s what I’ve got now:
1. I’m pretty sure we’re using the single site version of WordPress(maybe this is known as the MU version?). It was installed through our server using SimpleScripts. I was aware of the plugin option, but didn’t want to get into that yet until I had the account creation issues taken care of. Thanks for the info.
2. Disabled the BuddyPress plugin, as well as the Group Documents plugin (and reverted to the default non-BuddyPress theme). Created an account, and got the confirmation email right away. The WP account registration was just “username”, and “email”… and WP emails the password. The BuddyPress registration required much more info. So without BP turned on.. Accounts worked.. with it turned on.. The account gets created, but no activation email gets sent out.. thoughts?
3. I’m referring to the WordPress setting: Site Address (url): “Enter the address here if you want your site homepage to be different from the directory you installed WordPress.” I’m trying to point the domain to sdcityrobotics.saltbored.com , and it will display as http://www.sdcrobotics.org (our domain).
4. Got it. I was just curious as to if there were some settings I was just totally missing.
BlueHost Issues !?!?
1. Ok don’t use SimpleScripts or WordPress.. Just install WP manually on my server, and then install the BuddyPress plugin manually? And that will get it to work?
2. I’ll definitely search around for BH. Thanks for the tip!
Ah, Bluehost 
1. If you are running the multisite version of WordPress, on the super admin’s options there is a setting for default profile. Alternatively, there are lots of plugins that control this sort of setting on. I use a couple of role management plugins on a few sites but I’m not sure what’s best. Hopefully someone can recommend one.
2. If you disable BuddyPress, and register an account on the site (via WordPress), do you receive the email? If you don’t, it is either ending up in your email’s spam or your server is not configured to send emails correctly. However, since you’re on Bluehost, have a look at the bottom of this message first.
3. That site URL setting should match the URL of your site. I’m not sure what you mean by “pointed url”, but you should probably only change it if you have moved the site from one_domain.com to another_domain.com.
4. Depends on definition of “easy”; they are in the theme’s header.php.
Bluehost: We have seen issues with Bluehost previously. I do not know if all the issues still apply, but in general:
1) I suggest that you do not use simplescripts to install (or even WordPress).
2) RE: your email problem. I suggest you search this site for “Bluehost” as we have had lots of discussion around it previously but, from memory, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ might fix the problem (it has to be a valid email account, so you may need to create it first).
Hi Roger,
Thanks for quick response as always 
!!!
1. Well do they get a blog when they create a new account? If i have turned off site registration.
2. If not then how would they write their own blog posts?
The solution to this is “sitewide tags” as my best friend “Andrea” suggested. I can get all users posts in one blog. Keeping their individual blogs seperated.
The solution given by you is simple one. Can you please suggest me the complex way as well ?
Regards,
Sam.
@PJ
Here you go:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/
You can create a test account at my site (still under development) to check out how things look: http://nowrecovery.com
Did you try to create another Admin account and test to see if the same thing is happening?
Thank you both! I found under Settings > General,
Membership > Anyone can register
and ticked the box. That fixed it! Holy moly I was pulling my hair out! Thank you so much!
I should have been more literal .
In WP set up to run as Multi Site you have a Super Admin set of links one of which is ‘Options’ if running as single WP then that isn’t available and you need to use the Settings > General link as Paul described.
Worth bearing in mind BP is a registration/member led application it is nothing without ability for members to sign up but traditionally WP was a single bloggers tool and probably most never allowed or wanted people to sign up to the blog but simply place comments to posts so default state is registration disabled.
It is a WordPress setting, under the “Settings > General” pages.
OK… where do I find “admin > options”?
I’ve got the BuddyPress dashboard dropped down and “options” isn’t an option…
Have you enabled registrations in admin > options
Seems like a simple enough plugin to create. I’m not sure it makes since in the privacy plugin though.
Create a gravatar for the email on your account here and it will show up.
TWParticipant
Subscribing to thread as I created an account just minutes ago and also get the upload failed error ON THIS SITE (buddypress.org) when trying to upload a jpg image for my avatar.
`Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /home/buddypress/public_html/wpmu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/6902189. Is its parent directory writable by the server?`
Hi Tung,
To add a signup button to your site you can add the following code to your index.php file:
`<input type="button" id="sign_up" value="Create an Account!"
onClick=”window.location=’/register'”>`
The rest of your “problems” are not really problems because your register page works fine! It does not give me a 404 and I can sign up for your site.
You can add the same code above to your sidebar.php theme to add the signup button there
@slaFFik tried to create an account to test, did not receive activation email.
good job and thanks for posting the solution
@bowromir
I’ve built a bunch of custom elements to track the payments. It’s really one of the keys to the product. I track who contributed, which organization they contributed to and which person referred them to the site to contribute. Plus, I created the tools (with more on the way) for them to send out links with all the codes that will give that person credit for the referral.
It is all collected in one merchant account (well 1 per site) and then I pay the organization monthly. Right now this is manual since it’s new, but I’m sure I’ll automate this in the future.
The sidebar, by default, allows you to login or create an account:
http://testbp.org
Also, did you enable registration on your BP install?
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register
