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If you look at my snippet here, you will see that I’ve hooked the my_set_default_member_type() function to bp_core_signup_user. Now, bp_core_signup_user fires each time a new user registers on your website. This means that bp_set_member_type( $user_id, 'student' ) executes each time a new user registers on your site.

Then if you look here, you’ll see I’ve hooked my youmin_set_role() function to the bp_set_member_type hook (note that the bp_set_member_type hook and the bp_set_member_type() function are different things). This means that when the bp_set_member_type hook fires, the code inside youmin_set_role() will execute.

So as you can see, you have to use both snippets together, exactly as I’ve written them, in order for things to work.

Hi @youmin

If you don’t already have your roles set-up then this is how you’d add them:

add_role(
    'student',
    __( 'Student' ),
    array(
        'read'         => true,  // true allows this capability
        'edit_posts'   => true,
        'delete_posts' => false, // Use false to explicitly deny
    )
);

The 3rd parameter is where you’d put your capabilities. In my example above, I’ve created a ‘student’ role which can read and edit posts but can’t delete posts. Feel free to amend these capabilities.

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_role

Then to pick up on Boone’s suggestion in the Trac ticket, you could do this:

function youmin_set_role( $user_id, $member_type, $append ) {
    $userdata = array( 'ID' => $user_id, 'role' => $member_type );
    wp_update_user( $userdata );
}
add_action( 'bp_set_member_type', 'youmin_set_role', 10, 3 );

When you use the bp_set_member_type() function like I have done here, this code will assign a role to the user who is signing up. The role that is assigned will be the type you use in bp_set_member_type().

Hope this helps you.

Hey guys dev Henry Wright had replied to this topic but its not showing here strange!!
https://buddypress.org/members/henrywright

But you can see his solution in his profile link provided above, he rectified error

Thank you mcpeanut for you research and work, I am glad to see details of your work since I am struck at this point I am willing to impliment it soon. Plz make a time to explain in details.

BTW have you seen the ticket I had raised ? I am curious about that ticket just because of the new introduced api member_type and the person who reviewed ticket is respectable Chief Dev of buddypress, as per his comment its take 6 lines of codes, to tie WP roles with member_type code. So it means Two solutions at one shot.

Thank you again.

Hey @youmin and @spiritix i hear you both on this matter, after much testing myself on how to do this i have realized the best way to do this is via a few other plugins.

firstly i would recommend using a membership plugin and a plugin to create your own registration forms as well as a roles capability management plugin, you can then overide the buddypress registration process (but you will lose the ability of integrating the custom fields you create for the buddypress registration unless you tie them into your own registration forms)
but the way i got around this myself without the problem of having to tie them with my registration forms was to add a buddypress profile progression plugin so once they have registered they will see a notice in the header showing the percentage of the profile they have completed encouraging them to fill the fields in “you could even integrate it with an awards system the more they fill in” its up to you. (to me this works perfectly fine as i can still add as many buddypress fields as an when i want and have a simple registration process to boot).

if you mess around with this idea you will see that assigning a user to a specific role does infact work with the right combo of plugins and effort, i know this seems a long haul work around but the way i have set it up works fine for me. i may go into more detail for you guys when i have more time and explain exactly how mine works. plus this way if you do decide to implement some kind of pay per view membership for higher levels in the future your ready to go!

Please do not double post. Duplicate here.

Try editing buddypress/activity/home.php , after copying these files from buddypress plugin to your theme. If you have already copied files from plugin then search the files from activity folder and edit it from there.

See this ticket.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6154#ticket

Since buddypress 2.2 released we can tightly integrate user roles based on their profile selected. As well their is a hook . if you know php you can create a snippet so that others can get benefits along with you.
I think same above codes with a little modifications we can hook it to bp_set_members_type at line 2576.

Refer to the usage in this file:
\buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\index.php

Or review function bp_directory_members_search_form() in this file and maybe write your own:
\buddypress\bp-members\bp-members-template.php

add_action( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'devb_show_role_on_profile');
function devb_show_role_on_profile(){
 global $wp_roles;
 
$user_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
 
$user = get_userdata( $user_id );
 
$roles = $user->roles;
 
 if( !$roles)
 return ;
 
 if ( !isset( $wp_roles ) )
 $wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
 
 $named_roles = array();
 
foreach( $roles as $role ){
 
$named_roles [] = $wp_roles->role_names[$role];
 }
 
if( $named_roles )
 echo '<span class="user-role activity">'. join( ', ', $named_roles ) . '</span>';
 
}

Showing User role on BuddyPress Profile

That’s not a BuddyPress related question. BP provides already a few checks over xprofile fields, but not strict security checking.
As you use contact form 7 plugin to build your fields, you have to check this plugin documentation to achieve this.

BP works on almost any WP theme, under one condition. the theme should respect the WP rules for themes.

From this codex page you’ll able to find all documentation around BP themes.