Is your BuddyPress group creation getting out of hand? Would you rather your users submit group requests to you for moderation and create them yourself?<\/p>\n
After doing a little bit of hunting on the BuddyPress forums, I stumbled across this custom plugin created by Simon Wheatley<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s how you can use it to restrict BuddyPress group creation to admin only<\/strong>:<\/p>\n So what’ you’ll have then for the first function will look something like this:<\/p>\n You’ll want to modify the other functions in that plugin to match – or you can download my modified version here<\/a>. :)<\/p>\nStep 1: Download the Restrict Group Creation<\/a> plugin.<\/h3>\n
Step 2: FTP that file to your Plugins directory and activate. This will change it so that no users can create groups.<\/h3>\n
Step. 3: Add this code to each function to permit the admin to create groups:<\/h3>\n
if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) )\r\nreturn true;<\/pre>\n
function rgc_validate_creation( $allowed, $group_details ) {\r\n\/\/ At this point one could check the capabilities of the user, the details of the\r\n\/\/ group to be created, etc.\r\nif ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) )\r\nreturn true;\r\nbp_core_add_message( 'Sorry, you are not allowed to create groups.', 'error' );\r\nreturn false;\r\n}\r\nadd_filter( 'bp_allow_create_group', 'rgc_validate_creation', null, 2 );<\/pre>\n