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As of BP 1.7+ bbpress is a seperate install. Try following the below instructions.
1.) Go to dashboard/settings/buddypress/components and check the box “User Groups”
2.) Install and activate bbpress.
3.) In the front-end go to the groups page and click the button “Create a Group”
4.) Give the group a name and description, click “Create Group and Continue
5.) Select your privacy options then click “Next Step”
6.) Under Group Forum click the box “Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” Click “Next Step.”
7.) Choose avatar for the group, click “Upload” then crop the image. Click “Next Step”
8.) Select friends to invite. If you dont have any yet just click “Finish.”
This should do it. Now you have groups with their own forum. Click the Groups nav button then click the group you created. Below the avatar you will see the tabs Home | Forum | Etc.
Hope this helps! Good luck!

I’m curious about this functionality as well. I have an existing wordpress site with a bunch of content on it that I don’t want to delete but want to limit access to using groups, so that I can invite friends to still be able to access it. BuddyPress groups seems perfect for this.

I am helping Kathryn with this issue, here are the details for the installation.

The original programmer for the site vanished, so the configuration is the way it is. Not asking anybody to solve the problem on our behalf, just opening the issue to more eyes. All help and all input is greatly appreciated.

Wordpress: 3.5.2
Buddypress: 1.7.3
PHP: 5.3 (I suspect this might be the culprit.)

Installed Plugins
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Legend – (A)Active, (-)Deactivated
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BUDDYPRESS PLUGINS
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(A)BP Auto Login on Activation 1.0.1
(A)BP Export Users 1.1
(A)BP Group Announcements 1.0.2
(A)BP Group Hierarchy 1.3.9
(A)BG Group Management 0.6
(A)BP Group Organizer 1.0.7
(-)BP Labs 1.3

(A)BuddyPress 1.7.3
(A)BuddyPress Activity Plus 1.5
(A)BuddyPress Auto Group Join 2.2.1
(A)BuddyPress Docs 1.4.3
(A)BuddyPress Docs Wiki add-on 1.0.3
(-)BuddyPress Edit Group Slug 1.2
(A)BuddyPress Group Email Subscription 3.3.3
(A)BuddyPress Groups Extras 3.5.7
(A)BuddyPress Like 0.0.8
(-)BuddyPress Live Notification 1.0.3
(-)BuddyPress Usernames Only 0.6
(A)bbPress 2.3.2
(A)bbPress reCaptcha 1.1
(A)bbPress Search Widget 2.0.0
(A)bbPress Threaded Replies 0.4.3
(A)GD bbPress Attachments 1.9.2
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OTHER
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(A)Akismet 2.5.7
(A)Automessage 2.3.1
(A)BackWPup 3.0.12
(-)Blog Categories for Groups 1.0.4
(-)Confirm User Registration 2.0.4
(-)Disable Comments 0.9
(-)downML – Download Media Library 0.3.1
(A)Email Users 4.4.4
(-)Fundraising 2.3.6
(-)Invite Anyone 1.0.21
(-)Live Stream Widget 1.0.4.2
(A)New RoyalSlider 3.0.93
(-)P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) 1.4.1
(A)Plugins Garbage Collector 0.9.12
(A)Revolution Slider 2.3.8
(-)Scheduled Content 1.1.1
(-)Select Language At Signup 1.0.4
(A)SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam 2.7.6.4
(A)Sidebar Login 2.5.3
(A)Simple Badges 0.1-alpha20120703
(-)Snapshot 2.3.3
(-)Tweet Blender 3.3.15
(A)Ultimate Maintenance Mode 1.5.0
(-)W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.11
(A)WordPress Importer 0.6.1
(A)WP-DBManager 2.63
(-)WP-reCAPTCHA 3.1.6
(-)WP Htaccess Editor 1.2.0
(-)WP UI – Tabs accordions and more. 0.8.7
(A)Yoast Breadcrumbs 0.8.5

Try this:
$groups = groups_get_invites_for_user(bp_loggedin_user_id());
$groupsInviteCount = $groups[‘total’];

groups_remove_member how to used in my plugin I am not able to used it.
Please explain .
I want to remove member from a group when new user registered.
I have received group_id and user_id from database. then I want to remove all member from that group without group admin.
I used function ‘groups_remove_member’ in my own plugin .
I am new in wordpress and buddypress coding.
My code is
if (!function_exists(‘auto_join’)) {
function update_auto_join_status($user_id) {
global $wpdb, $bp;

// get list of groups to auto-join.
$group_list = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM {$bp->groups->table_name} WHERE auto_join = 1″);

foreach ($group_list as $group_auto_join) {
$members_count = groups_get_groupmeta( $group_auto_join->id, ‘total_member_count’ );
if($members_count < 5)
{
groups_accept_invite( $user_id, $group_auto_join->id );
}
else
{
group_auto_join_hidden_group($user_id, $group_auto_join->id);
}
}
$wpdb->query(“UPDATE {$wpdb->users} SET auto_join_complete = 1 WHERE ID = {$user_id}”);
}

add_action( ‘user_register’, ‘auto_join’);
}

function group_auto_join_hidden_group($user_id, $group_id)
{

global $wpdb, $bp;
$utn = $wpdb->users; // Create a shortcut variable for wordpress users table.
$gmtn = $bp->groups->table_name . “_members”; // Create a shortcut variable for buddypress groups_members table.

$mysql = “SELECT user_id FROM $gmtn WHERE group_id=$group_id”;
$results = $wpdb->get_results( $mysql);
foreach ( $results as $user) {
groups_remove_member($user->user_id, $group_id);

}

}
my auto join working well but I am not able to remove member
Please help me what is wrong?

I have similar problem. When a user invite someone to his group the other user don’t receive any notification. I think this is a bug. I’ve also tried default theme, but still it doesn’t work. 🙁

Users do not add users to groups! users add themselves or if you install a plugin they can send invites to a group (‘invite-anyone’).

And you did open by saying ‘Admin’ adding users to groups if the user is admin then they ought to be ok with visiting the dashboard? or is that a major hassle 🙂

You can visit and navigate public groups; you can’t access private groups without becoming a member.

oh yeah i forgot 😛 good suggestion with that invite anyone plugin.

It sounds like you should be utilizing hidden groups rather than private groups.

Is the server running on object or page caching? If you aren’t sure, are you running W3 Total Cache or any other caching plugins and what the settings are?

I am assuming that error in your post is recent. It’s saying that a database table mydb_ivdb4wp.pd doesn’t exist. “mydb_ivdb4wp” is your database name. Where you have the part “LEFT JOIN pd”, it should look like this:

“LEFT JOIN {$bp->profile->table_name_data} pd” (the middle part is replace by the name of an xprofile database table).

Now to figure out why. If you look in your database, do you have these tables? wp_bp_xprofile_data, wp_bp_xprofile_fields, wp_bp_xprofile_groups, wp_bp_xprofile_meta ?

bp_group_has_invites() starts the entire template loop. You don’t want that if you’re after a simple ‘are invites enabled for this group’ check.

Use bp_groups_user_can_send_invites(). It defaults to the current logged in user, so also check is_user_logged_in().

not really understanding the question – group creator is admin of group users can be made moderators both ought to be able to invite to groups, but install the plugin as it has backend options that may help.

Depending on the size of your userbase, you could make all the groups Hidden, then use the Invite Anyone plugin to manually invite (or have established group admins manually invite) the users who belong in each separate group. Don’t get thrown by the first bullet in the description of the plugin, in this instance the power of this plugin will be in your ability to invite people to a group even if you aren’t friends with them (bullet 2 in the description on the link below). Perfect if you are using the Followers plugin as well and have Friend Connections turned off:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-followers/

== Do I have to separately install bbPress? ==

No, you don’t have to install the bbPress plugin if you want to use Group Forums at all. Go to the specific Group’s page > Admin tab to manage your Group.

== I want to be able to limit access to a group / forum based on the user role ==

You need create a plugin to do that. Or, make the Group either Private or Hidden. Members can only request to join in or members can be invited to join Private groups. Membership in Hidden Groups is by invitation only.

If you don’t want anyone in any group to be able to send invites, put the following in your bp-custom.php file:

function bbg_no_send_invites( $can_send_invites ) {
$can_send_invites = false;

return $can_send_invites;
}
add_filter( 'bp_groups_user_can_send_invites', 'bbg_no_send_invites' );

If you want to be more selective than that – for instance, allowing only group admins to invite, or blocking invites only in private groups – you’ll need to put some more logic in there before setting $can_send_invites to false.