We're building with WP 3.2.1 and BP 1.2.10. We've installed the latest version of Buddypress Announce Groups ( http://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-announce-group/home/ ), which out of the box is working just fine.

As is, BP Announce Groups makes both update posting and forum posting available to group admins only, and group members can read but not post. I've been trying to mod the script so that it would allow forum posting for regular members, but still disallow update posting. There is a function at the bottom of the file that specifically addresses forum posting, and I thought that by simply removing the function I would be able to restore this ability.

But we just tested it tonight for the first time, and found out that wasn't the case. The script works by creating a new status for the group - called, appropriately, "announce" - that essentially makes the group private, read-only. So if you turn the forum on for that group, that status also extends to the forum.

I don't know enough about the intimate workings of BBPress (that would still be version 1.01 for BP 1.2.10) to keep the newly-created group status from extending to the forum, and I was wondering if one of you geniuses (using that term here with absolutely no sarcasm whatsoever :-) here might know an easy way for me to do this; or are the group statuses so wedded to the forum that this would be very difficult to separate out. My thanks in advance for your advice and assistance --