I went through BP 1.6 code and stumbled upon the “bp_moderator” role in the code (though I didn’t see this in my wordpress & buddypress installation)
I also don’t see any other functions that checks back whether “bp_moderator” capability exist. Is this a planned role for future release?
It’s something to do more on in future, yes. No guarantees at this point if we’ll rename “bp_moderator”, so keep an eye on release notes.
Thanks for the confirmation, meta caps in future releases will definitely make buddypress more powerful and customizable.
By the way, I found out on this site (http://shinephp.com/delete_users-wordpress-user-capability/) that on single site installs, wordpress checks whether user is a super admin or not based on the “delete_users” capability.
So, if anyone is planning to make someone be the admin of the buddypress, you can assign “delete_users” capability to that particular user (using your fav user role plugin).
Though, they will have access to (obviously) user deletion and some other plugin settings which checks for “is_super_admin”.
In my case it’s okay because the one I’m assigning the role to is a friend. I just don’t want them to have access to core/plugin/theme update&installs (is there anything else I should be concerned when indirectly assigning someone as super admin by the above method?).
