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If you switch to BuddyPress Legacy in the settings, this problem resolves. But I cannot post public or group messages, only private messages. Can’t add anything to the group feed.

OK UPDATE: the issue was ‘Grimlock for Buddypress’ plugin which Theomosarus have just updated. It’s fixed the profile /members/ display page – but not the /groups/ page. Perhaps they are aware of that and working on it. Here was their note on their update;

1.5.3 – 2024-05-02
Fix members list display with BuddyPress 12.4.1+

If anyone can contact them regarding the same issue exists with /groups/ that would be great as I can’t reach them.

–SOLVED–

Update: I have discovered a work-around and would like to post it here in case it is useful to anyone else.

I installed both BuddyPress for its membership functions (eg profiles, directory) and also “User Registration” plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-registration/) for the registration form. User Registration plugin allows you to have more than one user registration forms and you can set what role you want each registration form to automatically assign to the user that signs up with that form. For example, you can create a form for teachers, and a separate form for students, and have the forms assign the respective roles to registrants of the form. Of course you need to create the roles first: t do this, use some sort of plugin that lets you manage user roles. I used “Members” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/). You can then create restrictions using this plugin and control the pages that each user role can and cannot have access to.

Update clarification:
Apparently member types is front end and visitors to the site sees something like “User1 is an student” and “User2 is a teacher” where student and teachers are the member types, but user roles is back end and can be used to create conditions in wordpress.

What I’d like is something that allows people to register as different roles/types that can then allow them to be automatically (as opposed to the site admin having to manually assign each user after they sign up) restricted or redirected to different pages. For example, people who want to register as students use Form1 which automatically registers them as role/type “student”, and people who want to register as teachers use Form2 which automatically registers them as role/type “teachers”. Then all teachers get access to quizzes and quiz answers page, but students only get access to quizzes page.

I am only testing so I would like a free alternative, I don’t mind using several plugins to work together. I saw an old post on Stackexchange recommending a plugin called “Buddypress User Account Type” but this plugin is not available anymore.

Is there anyone who knows of an alternative?

Hi Thinlizie,

Thanks for the suggestion. I can confirm that the code in the original link I posted works using Code Snippet.
However, I prefer to have as few plugins as necessary. I know how to access the control panel of my site, so I prefer to add the code directly to the php file. However, there is no “functions.php” file in my control panel – not in the wp-contents, not in plugins nor buddypress folder. Do you know where I can access the correct folder for the correct php file to add the code to?

Many thanks

Hi ThinLizzie,

Oh I see, not a developer so didn’t know it is PHP code.

Could you tell me which PHP file to add it to? I assume it has to be in the plugin folder (ie Buddypress) in the wordpress “wp-content” -> “plugins”-> “buddypress” folder in the back end files? But i don’t know which php file it should go in.

I’ve tried adding it to the end of a “bp-loader.php” and a “class-buddypress.php” but neither seemed to work.

Thank you

I have the WordPress Creator Plan.

In left side menu under ‘Users‘ there is ‘Member Types‘.

Clicking on ‘Member Types’ opens this (screenshot) page and this is my setup with created Member Types: Screenshot .

The plugins I have active are:
– (BuddyDev) BP Auto Login on Activation
– Activity Pub
– Akismet
– BP Auto Group Join
– BP MPO Activity Filter
– BP Profile as Homepage
– BuddyPress
– BuddyPress Username Changer
– BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types
– Crowdsignal Forms
– Crownsignal Polls & Ratings
– Gutenberg
– Imsanity
– Jetpack
– Jetpack Boost
– Kirki Customizer Framework
– Leira Letter Avatar
– Link Page to Groups
– Page Optimize
– rtMedia for WordPress
– WordPress.com Editing Toolkit
– WP Headers And Footers WP User Login Notifier
– Yoast SEO
– Youzify

I have disabled Youzify and BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types to see if they made the Member Types possible to create but no.

Thank you for your patience.

There might be an error with BuddyPress where it decides to sometimes reveal this menu link, to go back to being invisible.

I have tried to deactivate all plugins, and then activate them one by one to see if they cause the issue — neither did.

I can’t edit my previous comment so I will post an update here:
I just discovered that I do have Buddypress Nouveau. I did try the custom CSS but it didn’t work for me.