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webnik
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This plugin looks great but it seems as though once you network activate it, anyone can create their own user groups.
Is it possible to only allow certain users to set up community groups? e.g. a leader/coordinator of a specific group sets it up on their blog/site and picks which users from the multisite network are part of it?
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You can choose not to network activate it and activate it by site basis. this way just anyone would not be able to use it... also if you are using prosites, you can add this plugin to a premium plugin and only prosites would be able use this plugin..
Alongside you may try to create Private communities, which would require a code to join and only the creator would have that code
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Hello webnik,
Like PC said, this isn't available at the moment, but I think it is a required feature. Maybe more like a Role based thing, like Editors can create communities, but contributors and lower roles can't.
To restrict who can join the specific community, Private communities will help.
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Hey PC,
This very same is the feature request and its not on uservoice. Which means you already voted. One of us often goes through the feature request and suggestions forum to find stuff like this :)
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Hi PC,
I have another entry active about this same general thing. (It isn't hard to find, as my face stands out. AND how do I get an identifier for a 'thread' so I can refer to it?)
In Andrew's response (3 years ago) he proffered a patch. Which brings up a few questions:
1. Will that hack still work?
2. The line numbers can't be the same, could they?
3. What file is he talking about?
4. Other than: "Try hard, & Good Luck" what do I need to do with child themes?
What I am up to is allowing only select users to create new communities. I will have a fairly large number of "topics" that I plan to use Delphi techniques to close in on a 'group guess.' This technique has ~100 folks weighing in on the values. Each 'topic' will have an administrator (proctor?) and to keep things from getting totally out of control, new sub-communities should be created by the topic admin. Also, how can the membership be restricted to the 'select ones'?
If needs be, only admin could create the new communities; this more load on poor old admin: me.
Paul
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@Temylar,
Here is the changed Communities plugin. Basically, any user who has 'read' access will be allowed to see the menus. There is still a desire to rework this to some finer grain permissions and some custom roles. But for now this version will need to suffice.
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You can choose not to network activate it and activate it by site basis. this way just anyone would not be able to use it... also if you are using prosites, you can add this plugin to a premium plugin and only prosites would be able use this plugin..
Alongside you may try to create Private communities, which would require a code to join and only the creator would have that code
Cheers
PC
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Hello webnik,
Like PC said, this isn't available at the moment, but I think it is a required feature. Maybe more like a Role based thing, like Editors can create communities, but contributors and lower roles can't.
To restrict who can join the specific community, Private communities will help.
Moving this in as a feature request. :)
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@Arun : Thanks for moving it to the feature request, could you please provide a link here so that I can +1,2,3 it ?
Cheers
PC
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For my purposes, just enabling it on individual sites will probably do the trick. But I agree that this is a needed feature!
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Hey PC,
This very same is the feature request and its not on uservoice. Which means you already voted. One of us often goes through the feature request and suggestions forum to find stuff like this :)
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Hi PC,
I have another entry active about this same general thing. (It isn't hard to find, as my face stands out. AND how do I get an identifier for a 'thread' so I can refer to it?)
In Andrew's response (3 years ago) he proffered a patch. Which brings up a few questions:
1. Will that hack still work?
2. The line numbers can't be the same, could they?
3. What file is he talking about?
4. Other than: "Try hard, & Good Luck" what do I need to do with child themes?
Chris
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Hi PC,
My mug does NOT appear on the aforementioned post.
The author was "alubchansky" (who didn't hang around long).
Chris
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Hiya @Chris,
I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for here. You refer to a post by Andrey. Do you have a link to that? What are you wanting to accomplish?
Let us know. Thanks!
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Hi Mason,
The link is:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/only-allow-admins-to-create-communities
What I am up to is allowing only select users to create new communities. I will have a fairly large number of "topics" that I plan to use Delphi techniques to close in on a 'group guess.' This technique has ~100 folks weighing in on the values. Each 'topic' will have an administrator (proctor?) and to keep things from getting totally out of control, new sub-communities should be created by the topic admin. Also, how can the membership be restricted to the 'select ones'?
If needs be, only admin could create the new communities; this more load on poor old admin: me.
Chris
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Hi,
I was scanning the tickets and found:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/problem-with-community
Chris
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@Chris,
At the moment all users have the ability to create/access the Communities menus. So to answer your question. No, this is not currently possible.
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