D Cartwright

<p>This plugin provides neat chatrooms into BuddyPress groups. Each Group admin can enable a group Chat room, available for all group members to view and post.</p>
<p>The Chat area provides an ajax chat room which displays the most recent messages along with timestamps and usernames.  It also has a “who’s online” area which shows other group members viewing the Chat page.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Who’s Online list of members in the chatroom.</li>
<li>Text Chat: Supports text and links added via the text input box.</li>
<li>Video and other embeds – Videos such as You-tube can be added as an embedded video using the Video button. The same link can be used for other WordPress embedable urls.</li>
<li>Emojis supported: over 1,000 emojis easily inserted into the chat stream with options to load them all or just a subset.</li>
<li>Images: Users with upload_files capability can add images from the media directory/upload into the chat stream.</li>
<li>Images Lightbox: Supports WP Featherlight lightbox, if you install this plugin then images loaded into chat will open in a lightbox.</li>
<li>Activity threading: chat conversations can be collected and posted to the activity stream.</li>
<li>Moderation: Group admin and moderators can delete chat messages.</li>
<li>Theming: Chat message box colours can be set by Group Admin</li>
<li>Auto-hide of chat messages after up to 30 days.</li>
<li>Auto-deletion of chat messages after up to 30 days.</li>
</ul>
<p>Chat messages support links, embeded video is supported an it’s possible to call in another site member to the chat using @mentions.</p>
<p>I’ve introduced rudimentary threads support. The behavior is that a new message, posted more then 15 minutes after the last message will be marked as a new thread. All messages posted after that initial message will be regarded as part of that thread. After 15 minutes the thread will be deemed closed and if posting of threads to group activity is enabled then all messages in the thread will be posted in a single activity update. I’m expecting this functionality to change as the plugin develops.</p>
<p>Currently the chat supports text chat and the sharing of links. I’m interested in adding further features but would like to see some user requests for the same.</p>
<p>This plugin was originally created by David Cartwright and has been forked by Venutius. It includes an emoji set which was sourced from WP Emoji One by Monchito.net.</p>
<p>This plugin runs from your own server, no chat data leaves your site. This has has the benefit of minimizing your exposure regarding user privacy and GDPR, however chat will be as responsive as your server and can be laggy because of this. User conversations are stored for one month then deleted.</p>


BuddyPress Group Chatroom

This plugin provides neat chatrooms into BuddyPress groups. Each Group admin can enable a group Chat room, available for all group members to view and …

Justin Fletcher

keycapability

<p>There are lots of plugins to handle roles and capabilities, however, none provide one simple interface for allocating multiple roles to a user.</p>
<p>This plugin expects the complexity of capabilities to be handled by the Administrator through another plugin, I’m not reproducing what is already available.  What ‘Role Includer’ allows is for any user with the ‘promote_users’ capability a simple way to handle allocation of roles and only that.</p>
<p>So by simply creating a new role, for example “staff” and adding the ‘promote_users’ capability to this role, all staff members will be able to handle role assignment.</p>
<p>If you wish to hide/mask-out a particular role from “staff” ( such as “Administrator” ) so that staff cannot allocate the higher access level then you can exclude higher roles by using the “Role Excluder” plugin available over at <a href="https://justinandco.com/plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">justinandco.com</a></p>
<h4>Plugin site</h4>
<p>http://justinandco.com/plugins/role-includer/</p>
<h4>GitHub – Development</h4>
<p>https://github.com/justinticktock/role-includer</p>


Role Includer

This plugin gets the job done. I'm using it in combination with Ultimate Member, one of those free all-in-one plugins that markets itself as the #1 user profile and membership plugin.

However, Ultimate Member doesn't have the ability to assign multiple roles to a single user and it doesn't look like they're going to add it (see this ticket from August 2017). I didn't want another bloated membership plugin because I put all my eggs in this basket, and the client's project I'm working on has a quick approaching deadline.

This small little utility plugin came to my rescue and is perfect for just adding in this snippet of much-needed functionality. Thank YOU!

Lightweight and Compatible with Ultimate Member

Simple settings page to allocate multiple roles to a user.

BuddyPress Group Chatroom vs Role Includer