You can easily enable your site visitors to select and join groups (from the areas of their interest) at the time of registration. This way you can easily classify your users into different groups and build better group discussion forums etc. BuddyPress Registration Groups is a free plugin that enables you to allows new BuddyPress users to select groups to join during the registration process.
How BuddyPress Registration Groups Plugin Works?
The plugin displays BuddyPress groups in a list on user registration page.
At the time of registration your users can select a group or groups (via checkbox), which they would like to join upon their account activation.
The plugin allows you to configure the text to be shown on BuddyPress registration page.
You can also select what kinds of groups to show (public or public AND private both), you can set the group order and how many groups to be displayed.
How To Use BuddyPress Registration Groups Plugin?
Install and activate BuddyPress Registration Groups plugin. After activation visit your admin area dashboard Settings -> BuddyPress Registration Groups page and type field text, description, set the group order and save your settings.
That’s it. Now visit your website’s registration page and you will be seeing a list of groups with checkbox options.