To automatically join new users to an existing group on your BuddyPress site, you will need to add a function to your functions.php file. Add this function, replacing <# group ID #> on line five with the numeric ID of your group.
//Automatically add new users to a group
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’ );
You will need to figure out the group’s numeric ID. Here’s a trick. If you have Firebug installed with Firefox, you can click on your group and then select the group’s avatar within Firebug. It will say the group’s number in the avatar’s image class. It will be something along the lines of: img class=”avatar group-2-avatar”.
Thanks- This is just what I needed!
Any way to do this based on e-mail?
e.g. @harvard.edu users are auto-joined to the Harvard Group, @stanford.edu users are auto-joined to Stanford group?
This post is outdated now. I recommend using this plugin instead: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-auto-group-join/
@James,
I recommend trying this plugin for what you’re trying to do: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/auto-join-groups/
You could have a dropdown for their university, and then automatically add them to the groups associated with that university.
What we want is the user will automatically join a group without having the admin to click a button in the backend
Try this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-auto-group-join/
Michael- do you know if the updated version of BuddyPress has any effect on how this is done?
i was wondering if you had a step by step on how to auto but people into groups like what james was talking about based on their email domain?
Sorry, we don’t have step-by-step instructions
Using this function will return an error: Call to undefined function: groups_accept_invite() … How can I fix this?
Thanks in advance.
You can try this new plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-auto-group-join/
It would be great to see a small enhancement to this code wherein I join an existing user to a group based on a x-profile field.