[PvK2020]

Hi,

I’m using Buddypress together with BBpress. I’ve an issue and I’m hoping someone can help me with it.

When I (or someone else) create a new Buddypress-group on my website, I always choose to make a new group-forum. These forums have no ‘sub/child-forums’ by default. If you want there to be ‘sub/child-forums’ you should make them all by hand. I’ve around 60 groups (and counting), so you understand it’s a LOT of work if you want all the group-forums to have the same (same names, different private forums) sub-forums. Plus, I want my moderators to have the possibility to create groups (with a standard forum) and I can’t be there all the time to immidiatly make the sub-forums (including the right subtext and forum-image).

So, is there an option to make some ‘default sub forums’ (with image and subtext) that ALWAYS automatically ‘ll be created when you make a new group with forum? So for example: the default forums are ‘pregnancy’, ‘birthdays’ and ‘animals’. I make a new group called ‘Group 1’ and I choose ‘Yes, I want to create a forum for this group’. Then I open the brand new group-forum, and hooray! It has 3 brandnew subforums: ‘pregnancy’, ‘birthdays’ and ‘animals’. Only viewable for the group-members.

After that, I create a second group, called ‘Group 2’ and I choose ‘Yes, I want to create a forum for this group’. Then I open the brand new group-forum, and hooray again! It had 3 brandnew subforums (so, not the same forums you see in the group 1 forum), only viewable for group 2-members.

Can someone help me with this? 🙂

[PvK2020]

Oh, AND actually… I also want the automatical created ‘group-forum’ to be a category instead of a forum, so no one can post there anything. Only in the (hopefully automatic created) child-forums.

[PvK2020]

BTW.. I can change the group-forums by hand to a category and place (by hand) child-forums underneath. Works great (and is a lot of work)… until I edit my group. Then the group is confused, because the group-forum changed to a category. It creates a new forum itself (so, now I’ve a forum and a category (with child forums) with the same name and only the new empty forum displays in the group.

When I go to the group-settings again, I can’t change it back because then I can’t set a category as THE group forum. Sigh..

[greenzone]

There is/was a plugin called “BP Default Group Tab” which worked perfectly. It’s a premium plugin from BuddyDev that’s still offered. That said, it seems not to be working anymore, which is such a shame. Now I’m trying to make Forum the default landing page for my groups, and have been struggling for days… I can find old code from 12 years back, but nothing that seems relevant to the newer Buddypress code.

[greenzone]

Aha. got it. He built a new plugin that does the same thing. You can find it here for $29. BuddyPress Group Tabs Creator Pro.

It’s a little counter intuitive to configure, but the key is to match the “slug” for an existing tab precisely. (i.e. for Forums, the slug is “forum”) If you don’t put the slug in exactly, it won’t use that tab as the default. Works perfectly.