BuddyPress.org

OK, here’s a followup on my trying to find the source of the automated registrations.

— I disabled bbPress on the network plugins page.
— I renamed the following directories:
wp-content/plugins/bbpress
wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums
wp-content/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments
— enable registrations from the network admin settings

And… the automatic registrations CONTINUE.

— disable registrations (network admin) and the automatic reg stops

SO, it’s beginning to look like it is not bbPress. PLEASE ADVISE:

• Do you agree? Or is there some other possibility that will implicate bbPress?
• What other possibilities are there for by-passing registration protocols?

Hi again, @henrywright-1

just wanted to let you know, that I’ve requested some help from the developer of BP Custom xprofile Fields – donmik

I asked him, if it is possible, to use a custom xprofile field (selectbox) to choose the user role and pass it over to wordpress. He gave me this function or – you can say – hint:

function custom_bp_core_signup_user($user_id) {
    $user_role = strtolower(xprofile_get_field_data('NAME OF THE XPROFILE FIELD', $user_id));
    switch($user_role) {
        case "role 1":
            $new_role = 'Contributor';
            break;
        case "role 2":
            $new_role = 'Author';
            break;
        default:
        case "role 3":
            $new_role = 'Suscriber';
            break;
    }
    wp_update_user(array(
        'ID' => $user_id,
        'role' => $new_role
    ));
}
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'custom_bp_core_signup_user', 10, 1);

I put this code in my bp-custom.php, but it does not work. I think there’s something missing. Maybe you have an idea, or @modemlooper?

It looks like bbpress migrates the old group forums and indexing an empty shell forum for each old group forum.

Then it adds a correct version to each buddypress group…

Not sure if that was meant to happen or not.

I will work with that. If anyone else has issues please let me know.

@johnnymestizo

Thanks @palmdoc

Import from Buddypress Legacy Group forums

Sorry guys, turns out this was in my functions.php extending the search functionality (Single Search page for all buddypress components)

Apologies.

Its solved. I had a plug-in that did overide the translation that I did in the core function php file in buddypress.

The plugin. Now deleted. 😀
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh/

Hi @modemlooper. Thanks for your reply. Yip. I created it in the backend but it doesn’t show up on the registration page. I also disabled all buddypress related plugins and then buddypress and deleted and re-installed but the settings remained.

I think it really depends on the plugin. Some plugins make the creation step routine filterable (like BuddyPress docs) and some do not, unfortunately. Of course, uou could add a filter to plugins that don’t have them, and submit the changes back to the plugin author.

In the case where it is filterable, like BP docs, you can hook in like this:

add_filter('bp_docs_default_group_settings', 'bp_docs_default_settings_for_child_groups', 10, 1);
function bp_docs_default_settings_for_child_groups($settings) {
  // If this new group is a child group of another group, we'll set up BP docs to match the parent group's setup. This step copies the parent group's attributes over to the child group.
  // We may have to get the parent ID from the cookie 'bp_new_group_parent_id'
    $parent_id_cookie = $_COOKIE["bp_new_group_parent_id"] ;
    $parent_settings = groups_get_groupmeta( $parent_id_cookie, 'bp-docs');
    
    if ( !empty($parent_settings) ) {
      $settings = array(
          'group-enable'  => isset( $parent_settings['group-enable'] ) ? $parent_settings['group-enable'] : 0,
          'can-create'  => isset( $parent_settings['can-create'] ) ? $parent_settings['can-create'] : 'admin',
        );
    }

  return $settings;

}

But as to a general case, I’ve not found the answer. Most plugins want to have their settings set on group creation, too, so you’ll need to handle that task as well.