Group-Level Review Criteria
By default all groups share the same global criteria set by the site admin. Group-level criteria let each group admin tailor the criteria for their own group.
Turning the feature on (site admin)
Section titled “Turning the feature on (site admin)”Go to WB Plugins, Group Reviews, General and enable Enable Group-Level Criteria. Until this is on, the per-group Review Criteria tab is not registered and every group uses the global criteria.
The per-group Review Criteria tab
Section titled “The per-group Review Criteria tab”When the feature is enabled, each group gains a Review Criteria admin tab. From it a group admin can:
- Use global criteria - fall back to the site-wide criteria (the default mode).
- Enable specific global criteria - show only a chosen subset of the global criteria.
- Add custom criteria - define criteria unique to this group.
The group’s choice is applied to the review form and to its rating calculations. Settings on this tab are saved over AJAX.
What the review form uses
Section titled “What the review form uses”For a given group, the form shows the group’s effective criteria: its custom or selected criteria when it uses custom criteria, otherwise the global set.
When global criteria change
Section titled “When global criteria change”If the site admin deactivates or deletes a global criterion that a group had enabled, the plugin tracks it as an archived criterion for that group so past reviews and the group’s configuration stay consistent.
Where it is stored
Section titled “Where it is stored”Per-group criteria are stored in BuddyPress group meta under the key bgr_group_criteria_settings (with enabled_global_criteria, custom_criteria, and archived_criteria). See How Reviews Are Stored.