This plugin allows key aspects of BuddyPress administration to be devolved to non admin users.
As of April 2026, BP Devolved Authority is a WordPress groups plugin with 20 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Groups.
BP Devolved Authority allows site administrators to devolve the ability to manage Groups, Activity, Members and Emails to other site members. For Xprofile information, you can also give specific individuals the ability to edit the xprofile fields for one or more named individuals.
BuddyPress has not traditionally allowed site administrators to grant authority to manage aspect of BuddyPress to users without ‘manage_options’ capability. This plugin changes that and allows each of the BP Components to be managed by site members so long as they have the ‘edit_posts’ capability.
Note that roles allowed to manage members should also have the ‘list_users’ capability, this allows the users list menu item to be displayed in the dashboard for that member.
The ne…
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
29/07/2024
New feature: Now includes the features of the old plugin BP Delegated xprofile, for additional user management delegation options.
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