Buddypress – How to add group types

It can be useful to have group types sometimes for example, maybe a University might want to have 2 group types for staff and students. So they could have staff groups and student groups ( and a directory for each eg staff would list the staff groups and student groups would list the Student Groups … Read more

Buddypress how to sort Groups page alphabetically by default

In this short blog post I’ll run over how you can sort the Groups index page in Buddypress alphabetically by default (i.e. on first load of page they will be ordered by group name). Edit or override 2 of the Buddypress templates You’ll need these in your theme: wp-content/YOUR_THEMENAME/buddypress/groups/index.php and wp-content/YOUR_THEMENAME/buddypress/groups/groups-loop.php If these templates don’t … Read more

How to engage your staff using your Intranet

In this article, we’ll look at some ideas for useful things to have on your intranet and how to use these to help engage your Employees, members or Volunteers. What are the benefits of engaged staff ? Happy workforce ( productive workforce, helps business be more profitable) Low Staff turnover ( saves money in recruitment … Read more

Buddypress how to remove tabs from groups sub tabs ( eg remove Delete group)

This code is based on a post from the buddypress forums tested on Buddypress 2.9.2  ( forum states its compatible from BP 2.6+). In this example we remove the Delete tab and also permission so that user can’t try and goto the url to access it. Note there are numerous other examples / versions of … Read more