Extend restricting group creation with mappings to WordPress Capabilities and various thresholds
As of April 2026, BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation is a WordPress group plugin with 50 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 16K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: BuddyPress.
This plugin extends the default “Restrict group creation to Site Admins?” settings within BuddyPress. Rules for restricting group creation can be attached to each wp capability giving multiple levels of control. The rules are made up of member thresholds: forum posts, friends, status updates, days since registered, total groups created, total group admin memberships, total group memberships and total group mod memberships; Also supports the third-party plugin: achievements. S for example you can restrict group creation to members who have more than 10 friends etc.
This plugin was originally created by Rich @ etivite, and has been updated to run on the latest version of WordPress by Venutius.
20/07/2024
Fixed for depricated functions
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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