Warning: This plugin breaks BuddyPress group admins…

Be advised, there is a feature in this plugin that renumbers the administrator account (user_id=”1″) to something else (in my case it became “5”). The logic being that hackers look for user_id=”1″, so give it a new number.

Unfortunately this plugin does NOT update the wp_bp_groups_members table for BuddyPress! So, all existing records where user_id=”1″ remain that way. Consequently, when you go to update your group entries from the dashboard area, you get an error message saying you need an administrator account in the group.

So, I then started adding the admin account again manually to each group. But when I visited a group home page, I would see the administrator account listed twice below the “Administrators” heading. That’s how I figured this out.

The solution I found (and seems to work so far) is to use a SQL client and manually update the user_id column in the wp_bp_groups_members table with the user_id value for the administrator account. Oh, I also had to remove the admins I started adding so the dupes would go away.

Thanks,
Jeff

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