Manage group creation by creating a group request form

If you want to simply manage group creation on your BuddyPress site, this Trick will show you how to add a form that will send an email containing a request from the member. To achieve this we’ll need to modify a 2 template files of your active (child)theme and put some some code in the functions.php file. Let’s get started!

Step 1 : Add two templates to your Child Theme

Copy the following folder from the BP-Default Theme to your Child Theme:

/groups/index.php
/groups/create.php.

So you should now have a folder called Groups in your Child Theme, with the files index.php and create.php in it

Step 2: Edit index.php

In index.php on line 7 replace:

with

    Request a Group

Step 3: Edit Create.php

What we are going to to is hide the Group Creation form for regular members, and only make it viewable for logged in Admins. To do so we just add the following code just before the tag form

Then after the closing tag of the form around line 255, add this :

        
You need to request the Admin to create your group !

Step 4 : Adding some code to functions.php

Simply paste in the following code :

//request group functions
function imath_req_gp_add_request_form(){
        if(!current_user_can('manage-options')){
                ?>
                

                        

                                
What will be the name of your group ?
                                
                                
Give a short description of your Group

                                
                                
                
                loggedin_user->userdata->user_login." wants to manage a group !nnGroup name:n ".stripslashes($_POST['group_slug'])."nnGroup description: n".stripslashes($_POST['group_desc'])."n________________nn";
        $message.= "To view his/her profile: ".$bp->loggedin_user->domain."nTo send him an email: ".$bp->loggedin_user->userdata->user_email;
        if(wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message) ){
                echo "ok";
        }
        else echo "ko";
        die();
}
add_action('wp_ajax_imath_req_gp_ajax_call', 'imath_req_gp_handle_ajax');
function imath_req_gp_load_style_js(){
        if(bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG )){
                ?>