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I am not using BuddyPress for a forum. I am using BuddyPress for only volunteer groups on my website. I am just getting started with that. I tried to control access to the Group Page by WordPress Member Role… and running into issues. I see that persons want role control for reasons probably like mine. My site is a team membership site, it is not open to the general public. It’s not the vision of a community forum that I think persons are trying to force from their own vision of what a BuddyPress site “should be like”. 🙂 It’s like they are trying to force a square into round hole thinking that there should be no admin management by WordPress user role. 🙂 They’re thinking of an “open community”… and this is a closed community. If persons registered to my site and went to become member of a team in my team group… they would mess up my whole site and all of my volunteer structure. Not just anyone can join a volunteer team in my site.

So, enough said about why the BuddyPress vision of everyone is equal and should have power on a hosted website hosted by an individual for a specific cause… just is not a conducive philosophy to my website and my group creation.

But, here is a plug-in. I have reasons why it conflicts a bit with other things I am using… and I am not ready to implement this. But, check it out please…

http://presspermit.com/wp-content/uploads/PP-RS-Feature-Grid.pdf

– BuddyPress group as Permission Group

is an option on both the free and pro version of Permit Plus.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/faq/

Can Press Permit Pro do everything Role Scoper can do?
Press Permit Pro introduces some important new features, including custom post statuses,

. For most sites, it is a functional equivalent to Role Scoper, with major improvements in UI and performance. A few of Role Scoper’s more obscure features are not currently provided by PP Pro:

HTTP Authentication for feeds
Supplemental roles and restrictions for links defined in wp-admin/link-manager.php
Customization of NextGEN Gallery editing permissions

Role assignment for limited content date range (but membership in custom-defined permission groups can be date-limited)

http://presspermit.com/extensions/

Plugin Extensions:
PP Compatibility Pack
PUBLISHED IN PLUGINS, PRESS PERMIT ON JUNE 7, 2013
PP Compatibility Pack
Adds compatibility and/or integration with bbPress, Relevanssi, CMS Tree Page View, Subscribe2, BuddyPress, WPML, various other plugins. For multisite, provides network-wide permission groups.

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PP Circles
PUBLISHED IN PLUGINS, PRESS PERMIT ON JUNE 7, 2013
PP Circles
Visibility Circles and Editorial Circles block access to content not authored by other group members. Any WP Role, BuddyPress Group or custom Group can be marked as a Circle for specified post types.

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PP Buddypress Role Groups
PUBLISHED IN PLUGINS, PRESS PERMIT ON JUNE 7, 2013
PP Buddypress Role Groups
Modify any BuddyPress group’s access to specified content. Assign type-specific supplemental roles and post-specific exceptions as with PP-defined groups.

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I haven’t tried these… I am not far enough along in my website construction. Plus, sadly, the role scoper has group request and add… the new version doesn’t… and I am as stubborn as a horse lead to water that won’t drink… when asked to give up a feature I LOVE!! 🙂 I don’t want to give up that group feature I would lose from Role Scoper. So, I have not migrated.

Here’s some solutions for you that you can try, that I have read about.. but I have not tried myself yet.

**The author of these plug-ins ought to be a multi-millionaire… but lacks in sales and marketing skills. 🙂 But, I’m helping him out here for free. lol

Blessings!

Cheers!

Laura Lee

carlsandburg – Create a WordPress menu:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/

you wont see a buddypress menu…just activate the menu for that theme and customise the menu as per ur requirements..

in pages do you have a members page created?

if its created is it associated with buddypress memebers in the buddypress settings page?

did u run the buddypress settings which comes with the first install?

@texrat – Thanks. It’s possible that other plugins would cause this sort of problem. You probably are running now, or have run in the past, the kind of plugin that would cause the behavior.

I’ve opened a bug ticket to discuss the bug and possible fixes: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5553#ticket

For anyone currently affected:
– By default, BP does not create users with a status greater than Subscriber. This issue only affects people with a role higher than Subscriber
– If your admin user account does not have access to the Dashboard, I’ve written a small plugin that you can use to repair. Instructions and code are here: https://gist.github.com/boonebgorges/4ee64723ba75caa3c7e1
– If you need to repair other users, I recommend that you use the bulk update tools at Dashboard > Users

Note that this is something that only happens during the 2.0 upgrade, so you don’t have to be afraid that it’ll happen again.

Many apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience and help as we sort things out.

1. This is not a bug. We have never supported screen notifications for activity comments in core. There is already a ticket for this – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5395.

2. The main activity directory doesn’t show activity comments as separate entries by default because it will clutter up the stream. This is intentional, but since people will be using activity comments more, this might be a good time to revisit this.

Here’s a quick plugin to force the activity stream to always show activity comments as separate entries:
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/10937509

3. Good idea. Will add an enhancement ticket for this for v2.1.

Most plugins that add user fields are for the WordPress profile. The new Extended profile in the admin is for BuddyPress specific user information.

Hi,

I have a similar issue, however not buddypress upgrade related. I can get to the backend only by using a direct page e.g. /wp-admin/themes.php . Maybe that works for you too? Unfortunately I have still not figured out what the problem is, but like this it works for me.

@canadadre

Can registered users upload media (photos, video, music)?

Yes, there are plugins for that, like
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-media/

Can I modify the themes to allow for streams to be viewed similar to Pinterest or Tumblr? (I am familiar with PHP, CSS etc).

You can do anything you like – it’s open source 🙂

Is there a maximum number of registered user allowed? 1000? 10,000? What determines this?

It is determined by your server(s) resources and setup.

Also can the administrator send out email to all registered users?

There are several free WP plugins for that. You don’t need one specific to BP.

A fix for this has been included in BuddyPress 2.0, which is due for release today.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/8277

r_a_y, could you please explain in few words, what changes were done to activity add?

I mean this patch https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3856 and the words “..(short version – plugins that insert activity items will continue to work as before, but should be good citizens and update to the new technique)…”.

As I see, bp_activity_add wasn’t changed, so what update Boone is talking about? thanks!