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@everaertlawyers Friendship component is not required for groups; you can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/ it will allow inviting any member of your site.
Members will display at member directory page after their first login.

I think you will have the same issue, you are looking to implement hierarchical connections within BuddyPress and that functionality does not exist. I was thinking you could possibly use group memberships to do this – BP supports hierarchical groups, but I’m not sure that would work.

What I was thinking is that the primary user could send out a join invite, and when the new member joined they would be automatically joined to the root group. But I think you’d still have to make significant modifications to the way BP works – every function would have to check for group memberships before giving access to content.

Just to be sure of what your asking, Are you trying to hide these from everyone including the person who owns the profile?

Just in case you dont want to hide them from the profile owner, you should know that any links that are edit, upload rtmedia links only display for the profile owner and no one else and most other things like this are hidden by default from users and friends anyways. Only a profile owner can upload and make changes to his profile or post activity on their profiles.

Also, each member has privacy options in their profile settings. You can set defaults in the dashboard for this as well.

If this is not the case, could you clarify what you hope to achieve?

If you simply wish to remove links for everyone in your site including the profile owner, just use something like this in bp-custom.php file

/* Example to Remove subnav tabs from Group Settings  https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/#examples*/ 	
	function remove_group_manager_subnav_tabs() {   
    // site admin will see all tabs
    if ( ! bp_is_group() || ! ( bp_is_current_action( 'admin' ) && bp_action_variable( 0 ) ) || is_super_admin() ) {
        return;
    }
       // all subnav items are listed here.
       // comment those you want to show
        $hide_tabs = array(             
        //  'group-settings'    => 1,
        //    'delete-group'      => 1,
         //   'group-avatar'      => 1,
        //  'group-invites'     => 1,
         //   'manage-members'    => 1,
        //  'forum'             => 1,
        //  'group-cover-image' => 1
        );
                   
        $parent_nav_slug = bp_get_current_group_slug() . '_manage';
  
    //Remove the nav items
    foreach ( array_keys( $hide_tabs ) as $tab ) {
        bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $parent_nav_slug, $tab, 'groups' );
    }   
}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'remove_group_manager_subnav_tabs' );

/* Example to Change item names of user’s and group’s nav menus ...
Profile Menu https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/#examples
*/ 
function bpcodex_rename_profile_tabs() {
  
      buddypress()->members->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'My Forums', 'textdomain' ) ), 'forums' );
      buddypress()->members->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'MY Groups', 'textdomain' ) ), 'groups' );
  
}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpcodex_rename_profile_tabs' );

/* Example to Rename Group Menus https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/#examples*/ 	
function bpcodex_rename_group_tabs() {
 
    if ( ! bp_is_group() ) {
        return;
    }
    
    buddypress()->groups->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'Group Discussion', 'buddypress' ) ), 'forum', bp_current_item() );
	buddypress()->groups->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'Group Members', 'buddypress' ) ), 'members', bp_current_item() );
	buddypress()->groups->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'Group Activity', 'buddypress' ) ), 'home', bp_current_item() );
}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpcodex_rename_group_tabs' );	
	

/* Example to Remove subnav tabs from Group Settings  https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/#examples*/ 	
	function bpcodex_remove_group_manager_subnav_tabs() {   
    // site admin will see all tabs
    if ( ! bp_is_group() || ! ( bp_is_current_action( 'admin' ) && bp_action_variable( 0 ) ) || is_super_admin() ) {
        return;
    }
       // all subnav items are listed here.
       // comment those you want to show
        $hide_tabs = array(             
        //  'group-settings'    => 1,
        //    'delete-group'      => 1,
         //   'group-avatar'      => 1,
        //  'group-invites'     => 1,
         //   'manage-members'    => 1,
        //  'forum'             => 1,
        //  'group-cover-image' => 1
        );
                   
        $parent_nav_slug = bp_get_current_group_slug() . '_manage';
  
    //Remove the nav items
    foreach ( array_keys( $hide_tabs ) as $tab ) {
        bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $parent_nav_slug, $tab, 'groups' );
    }   
}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpcodex_remove_group_manager_subnav_tabs' );

Hi moefahmy,

Just registered my first WordPress.org account since over hundreds of sites I’ve built in the past, hehe. I’m facing exact the same issue as you have. I seriously thought that BuddyPress would support features like this. In the wp-admin > Groups > Single Group, there’s even an option that says: ‘Who can invite others to this group?’, WHY is this option available but not ‘Which usertype can post to this group? e.g. Administrators, Moderators, Subscribers etc.’.

Is there a plugin that anyone in this community is aware of which handles above feature? I really need a feature to assign posting permissions to users or userlevels…

As far as I know, there’s no way to do that with BuddyPress’ built-in tools.

However, it is possible with plugins such as the one you identified.

I had a similar requirement and ended up doing it by utilising BP’s Member Types functionality (which require a plugin or custom code to set up), a plugin called BuddyPress Xprofile Member Type Field to map that to an xprofile field (so that the user can change it herself… it was the easiest way I found to add that to the user’s profile, although there might be a better way), all tied together with custom code to patch in to the xprofile_updated_profile action to check what the change is and then use the groups_accept_invite() and groups_remove_member() functions to change the membership accordingly.

I know that’s not very detailed, but due to lots of other functionality, such as adding to email lists, my code ended up being quite complex, so it’s not possible to paste it here.

Hope that helps

groups_accept_invite( $user_id, $group_slug );

You can use something like this function

function automatic_group_membership( $user_id ) {
 if( !$user_id ) return false;
 
 groups_accept_invite( $user_id, <# group ID #> );
}
add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'automatic_group_membership' );

Hi,

open your buddypress-nk_NO.po file with a text editor (notepad++ or so) and check you have a plural form for the untranslated string.

The’re several strings containing “members” with a count, but it will be easy to find if you search for “msgid_plural”.
At least, you should find something constructed like this:

#: bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/groups/invites.php:34
msgctxt "Group member count"
msgid "%d member"
msgid_plural "%d members"
msgstr[0] "%d medlem"
msgstr[1] "%d medlemmer"

Again, note that it is only an example, you may find other strings containing “medlem” that you have eventually to adjust.

The important thing to control is the existence of “%d” and naturally, the presence of the plural form string in the translation.

If you still have trouble after controling/repairing/modifying, it could be possible that it is your theme. To ensure, do the same check in your theme translation.

Other thing to take in account

I’m not 100% sure, but so far i remember, the norvegian buddypress version is not completely translated.
Unfortunately, translate.wordpress.org is actually down and it is impossible to access the plugins translations at this time…

What i expect is that you have an old po file, fully translated, but perhaps not with the most recent changes and updates, which could explain that even if you have plural forms in your translation, they won’t show up in some places.
For ex. because the plural code changed from %s (in your version) to %d or something like that.
To avoid this, you can download the most recent pot file and rename it to buddypress-nk_NO.po.
Then you rename YOUR current version to .pot(with a T), import it to the new file, and adjust or complete the missing strings.

Please be serious,

why do you use index.php (it is a file), when i give you the correct path in my previous answer ?
Such URL‘s can’t work: http://eltconjunction.com/index.php/groups/

You’re on buddypress support forum and your BP pages where correctly displayed, a few hours back when i visited your site.

The error you have now is related to ppress. If you have issue with it, you have to ask for help on the appropriate support.

I invite you to read any plugins documentation you want to use BEFORE using them. And encourage you to learn a bit about internet, wordpress and how to build a site…

Yes the default operation in BP groups is that you can only invite friends of your BP Profile. You can change this behaviour with Invite Anyone, which gives you the ability to invite your friends to join the site and for you to invite any BP user to the group, not just your friends.

Another plugin that you might like to think about is BP Auto Group Join, with this plugin you can ensure all new site members automatically join a group.

With these two plugins, you can invite your friends to join your site and make sure they all join your group at registration.

So far there is no such plugin.

You can try to dive into bp_get_new_group_invite_friend_list filter, and you will need to rewrite /buddypress/groups/single/send-invites.php template.

So quite a lot of work.

I’m unable to reproduce your issue on a single install with over 20 plugins active and plenty of custom functions active in bp-custom.php
I can upload medias without problem with different 3th party themes or Twenty’s

Try to upload a fresh copy of WordPress and BP and see if it makes a difference.

Now about the snippet.
It works more or less, no code error. You commented the action, so it is deactivated if someone copy/paste it without correcting this.

That said, what is the reason behind using a redirection to login if the site, or at least the buddyPress parts, should be private ?

Wouldn’t it be more logic to redirect visitors to an anonymous page with some important information, from which the first one could be Sorry, but this site is private ? Followed by some informations how to register or pay a fee or whatever the reason.

A private site has two type of visitors: those invited to join and the others. Don’t give the opportunity to those who are there by chance to enter the site so easily.

I let you think about this and eventually create an appropriate page and template.
Here a code example redirecting to a page called Intranet and the correct calls to slugs for all components (including bbPress).

function bpfr_guest_redirect() {
global $bp;
// enter the slug or component conditional here
	if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) || is_bbpress() ) {
	
// not logged in user are redirected to - comment/uncomment or add/remove to your need
		if( !is_user_logged_in() ) { 
			//wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') ); //back to homepage
			//wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/register' ); // back to register page	
			wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/intranet' ); // back to whatever page
		} 
	}
}
add_filter( 'get_header', 'bpfr_guest_redirect', 1 );

Add it to child-theme’s functions.php

Your site works as intended and the button isn’t missing! Because it doesn’t exist where you thinck there should be one…
As already explained:

This button comes only up on Group Directory: All Groups | My Groups | Create Group and not when you’re inside an existing group (where you see Send invites).

Hi !

unable to recreate this issue on a standart install and 2016 activated.

This button comes only up on Group Directory: All Groups | My Groups | Create Group and not when you’re inside an existing group (where you see Send invites).

There is another button for this on the WP Toolbar > Usermenu > Groups > Create Group
And both are displayed correctly on Twenty Sixteen.

Within buddypress.css default file, there is no specific rule for it.
In case of, button’s ID on BuddyMenu is #group-create-nav

For now,
– is group creation allowed for all users (see in BP options) ?
– do you see the button in the usermenu (top right corner) and does it work ?

No idea what’s your issue, but i don’t believe it is BuddyPress. Maybe a plugin or a JS issue. Difficult to say more without a live URL. 😉

Hi @itsasiak

I am facing the same problem, That i get the error message of Are you sure you want to do this? on the second step after I create the group name and description.

My bp-custom.php file looks like this.

function remove_group_creation_steps() {
	global $bp;
	unset( $bp->groups->group_creation_steps['group-settings']		);
	unset( $bp->groups->group_creation_steps['group-avatar']		);
	unset( $bp->groups->group_creation_steps['group-invites']		);
	unset( $bp->groups->group_creation_steps['group-cover-image']	);
}
add_action( 'bp_before_create_group_content_template', 'remove_group_creation_steps', 9999 );

This code hides the menus on top when I create a group, as seen by the image

But If I click FINISH it takes me to this screen ::

Do you know where I can put code to solve this?

Hi,

usually it is because you haven’t established any friendship. Go on a profile or Members Directory, click on Add as Friend.

Back to the group and see if this profile appears on the Invite tab.

Friends → Friendships

If you are in a BP dicovery phase, i recommand you to use BP Default Data plugin. Once activated you will have fake content in all BP active components (users, groups, friendships and so on). So you can see where and who see what.

Hi,

two snippets to remove profile and group items.

function bpex_hide_profile_menu_tabs() {

	if( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :

	if ( bp_is_user() && !is_super_admin() && !bp_is_my_profile() ) {
	//	BP's profile main menu items. Comment those to show.
	//	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'activity' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'profile' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'friends' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'groups' );
	//	exist only if you use bbPress
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'forums' ); 

	//	BP's profile main menu items. Comment those to show.
	//	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'personnal' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'mentions' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'favorites' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'friends' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'groups' );
	}
	endif; 
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_hide_profile_menu_tabs', 15 );

function bpex_remove_group_tabs() {  

	if ( ! bp_is_group() ) {
		return;
	}

	$slug = bp_get_current_group_slug();

		// hide items to all users except site admin
	if ( !is_super_admin() ) {

	//	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $slug, 'members' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $slug, 'send-invites' );
	//	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $slug, 'admin' );
	//	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $slug, 'forum' );
	}

}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpex_remove_group_tabs' );

First you are creating a custom function called automatic_group_membership() this takes one parameter $user_id.

This function terminates if there is no $user_id provided, meaning you don’t run rogue code and your site is more optimised.

When a $user_id is present the groups_accept_invite() function is run. This function is a BuddyPress core function you can find it in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-functions.php on line 1400.

It accepts two parameters a $user_id and a $group_id. You need both in order to create the relationship.

This function is “hooked” with add_action() which is a WordPress core function. This function add_action() has many hooks available for various situations. You can read more about hooks here https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks.

Essentially it’s an opportunity to run your own code against WordPress core, or in this case BuddyPress core. BuddyPress provides the hook and we use them to achieve cool things.

So the hook in this case is bp_core_activated_user and the code we want to run when this hook is available would be the customer function automatic_group_membership which is passed as a second parameter.

I’m not sure where the $user_id gets populated along the way here, nor the $group_id maybe someone can help?

Otherwise, I would do this not on activation but when a user has logged in for the first time.

Then we have access to global $bp which contains a loggedin_user->id which can be used with this function and you could manually set the $group_id in bp-custom.php

Hi,

For a newbie like me, could I kindly ask to see how the code:

function automatic_group_membership( $user_id ) {
if( !$user_id ) return false;

groups_accept_invite( $user_id, $group_id );
}
add_action( ‘bp_core_activated_user’, ‘automatic_group_membership’ );

As its supposed to look so its ready for use in bp-custom.php

Kind regards and have a nice Sunday.