Group Administrators and Moderators – How to moderate?
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Hi,
I see that members become administrators of the groups they create (so can manage the description, members, photo and cover etc.). You can also promote members to become moderators of the Groups.
How then do Group Administrators and Group Moderators actually perform their moderation of activity posts and members? It seems there is no way for them to delete posts or remove/block them from a Group. Does this all need to be done on the backend?
I see you have a Buddypress extension for moderation. Does this allow Group Admins and Group Moderators to perform these tasks (editing group posts, comments and replies, deleting group activity, removing members from private groups, blocking members from public groups etc. from the front end?
Looking at the screenshots for this plug-in there doesn’t seem to be a Group Administrator or Group Moderator role type, so it’s not clear how this will work. Can you please explain a bit more how the extension works? I don’t want to buy an extension if it does do as I need.
Thanks
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Buddypress/Youzify doesn’t seem to create Group Admin and Group Moderator user roles in WordPress. The Group Admins and Moderators still appear to be Subscribers.
Even if I change them to Editor User Role they can’t delete other members Activity. It seems only the Site Administrator role cannot delete posts.
I’m really confused about how moderation happens using both (1) the standard WordPress/Buddypress/Youzify system (2) using the Youzify Buddypress Moderation extension? Surely if you are Moderator for a Group you should have more control than a regulator Group Member??
Hi,
I did a bit of research into this last night and it seems this has been a problem for years. From what I can gather the moderator role is only used to moderate bbpress topics and replies, and has no specific function on the BuddyPress Activity, which, you are right, seems to contradict the Codex.
I did manage to find a snippet that allows both the moderator to delete activity posts from the group wall. I modified this to also allow group admins the same function.
I tested it in my site and it works fine. But it only allows group admins and mods to delete group activity posts, not comments and replies. Could you help me expand on this code to also allow the deleting of comments and replies?
/* Give group moderators the ability to delete activity stream items */ function majecdad_group_mod_delete( $can_delete, $activity ) { if( $activity->component == 'groups' ) { $group_id = $activity->item_id; if( bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) || groups_is_user_mod( bp_loggedin_user_id(), $group_id ) ) $can_delete = true; } return $can_delete; } add_filter('bp_activity_user_can_delete', 'majecdad_group_mod_delete', 21, 2 ); /* Give group administrators the ability to delete activity stream items */ function majecdad_group_admin_delete( $can_delete, $activity ) { if( $activity->component == 'groups' ) { $group_id = $activity->item_id; if( bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) || groups_is_user_admin( bp_loggedin_user_id(), $group_id ) ) $can_delete = true; } return $can_delete; } add_filter('bp_activity_user_can_delete', 'majecdad_group_admin_delete', 21, 2 );
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