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These plugins should help 😉

This one is used for members to choose the group they want on registration.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-roles-at-registration/

This plugin assigns specific profile groups to the roles you want.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-xprofiles-acl/

These both work great together, and I am using them on the most recent WordPress and BuddyPress versions.

Just a small favor from you required if you can look that- as I’m very close to execute it.

For http://www.healthitinsider.com – I’m currently using buddypress template file and having the following functionality
https://github.com/kayue/buddypress-blank/tree/master/

Activity
Blogs
Forums
Members
Registration

I would like to create a specific section like groups which I name to Company. So that user can create and register company here.

I have copy the code of groups section (code mention in previous link)- modify it and create a directory which I name company
Healthitinsider.com/wp-admin/content/themes/company

Now I would like to define function in function.php so that it will be functional and we can assign a page on the site like
http://healthitinsider.com/groups/

For style.css I’ve use the previous codes. Please let me know how we can have the following functionality.

Hello peeps just wondering if u can help me out. After doing a fresh install off buddy press it seems i can’t sign up new member profiles or any other component working i can enter by admin and set up new users but can’t register new users from the login or register page. I have followed step by step instructions but it seems it might have something to do with my permalinks. Buddypress installs with default url permalinks but when i was setting up buddy press it asked me to set up my permalinks. I chose php my admin but after setting up pages for buddy press which it asks u to assign a page to a catergory it seems the urls are the default permalink urls and not the ones for my site. My url permalink is http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/index.php/activity-streams/ The default set of links are:

Activity: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/activity/
Members: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/members/
Groups: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/groups/
Forums: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/forums/
Register: http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/register/ (registration must be enabled)
I have read so many turorials but none seem to point me in the right direction. Can someone help me out as i still can’t find an answer and i thought it was a simple plugin that worked out of the box LOL

Try this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/

Try the Welcome Pack plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

You need to create a plugin for that or hire a developer to do so.

I know this is a little back from the dead, but I would go about this in a totally different way myself.

I would use good old WordPress usermeta, and have three different registration screens. Giving users the ability to choose something will more often than not confuse them. If you give them a dedicated registration with only the options they need, that will yield better results.

I have a post around here somewhere on how to assign usermeta values directly from registration. Then rather than trying to group users together, rather than wasting a profile field that you eventually have to hide or prevent users from changing, and rather than creating custom user role types, you can just check the meta and go. And if they upgrade their account, you just update the usermeta value.

Custom user roles is a good idea too, but it comes with a little more work to make things cooperate the way you want to use them.

TLDR version: Introduce types of groups. e.g. “User group” type – it has no forum, no “Home” page, just members listing and activity stream. This group added to Activity Stream filters where relevant.

Would have to filter out custom group type “User group” out of the /groups/directory page & member profile group page.

These custom group types could be set so they are publicly visible/private to those members involved/or hidden (visible to the creator only). As per current Group privacy settings.

Could add e.g. “Friends”, “Colleagues” and “Fans” as default, empty groups for each user on user registration. Obviously revise theme to make the “Friends” page (“Connections”, maybe) look like the Friends page rather than a regular Group.

Different users might create “User group” types with the same name but with different meaning (“Fans” could be interpreted several ways for example). This is no problem as such categorisation is defined — and belongs to — the user who does it. Might need some semantic group kind/type identifier in the code to allow FOAF/SIOC RDF profiles to be able to assigned to these “User groups”.

@juanllamosas

This thread is about Mike Pratt’s Featured Groups Widget. This allows site admins to select certain BP groups to feature. It has nothing to do with individual members.

It sounds like you are talking about my Featured Member(s) Widget. If you are, you set a featured member by their unique ID, not by their username. When editing the widget’s parameters, it states “Member ID(s)” and “Separate member IDs by commas”.

A member ID is the unique number automatically assigned to each user by WPMU upon registration. You can find each member’s unique member ID (also called userid), by logging into WPMU and clicking on “Site Admin > Users”. Then, hover your cursor of a given member’s username and look at the link text. you’ll see this in the url “user_id=”. You can also obtain a user’s unique ID by looking at the “ID” field in the wp_users table in WPMU’s MySQL DB.