Group-scoped Moderation

By default, only users with the global wcb_moderate_jobs ability can approve or reject pending jobs. On a community site that’s usually just admins.

When a BP group has its own job board, that gate is too strict - group admins want to review jobs posted to their group without you having to grant them site-wide moderator powers.

This integration adds an exemption: BP group admins and moderators can approve / reject pending jobs on their group’s board only.

How it works

Free exposes a hookable ability check that passes the result and the job being acted on:

$allowed = apply_filters( 'wcb_moderate_jobs_ability_check', $allowed, $job_id );

Pro hooks this filter via BpGroupBoards::allow_group_admins_to_moderate() with two arguments ($allowed, $job_id). For each pending-job moderation request it:

1. Returns early if access is already allowed, the job id is 0, or the BP Groups functions are unavailable.
2. Reads the current user with get_current_user_id() - bails for logged-out users.
3. Loads the job’s _wcb_board_id post-meta - bails if 0.
4. Loads that board’s _wcbp_group_id post-meta - bails if 0 (the board isn’t linked to a group).
5. Returns true if the user is an admin or mod of that group (groups_is_user_admin / groups_is_user_mod).

The check is job-scoped through the job’s own board, so a group admin in group A cannot moderate jobs posted to group B.

What’s covered

Action	Group admin can do it?
Approve / publish a pending job on their group’s board	Yes
Reject a pending job on their group’s board	Yes
Moderate a job on a different group’s board	No
Moderate a site-wide pending job (not on any group’s board)	No

The exemption only loosens the wcb_moderate_jobs ability check for group-board jobs; it does not create a new admin screen. Group admins moderate the same way any moderator does - through the moderation surface Free provides - but the ability check now says yes for jobs on their own group’s board.

Disabling the exemption

To keep moderation strictly global (only users with wcb_moderate_jobs can approve, even group admins), remove the filter from the BpGroupBoards instance:

remove_filter( 'wcb_moderate_jobs_ability_check', array( 'WCB\Pro\Integrations\Buddypress\BpGroupBoards', 'allow_group_admins_to_moderate' ) );

Auditing approvals

Approvals fire wcb_job_approved regardless of which user approved. To log who approved a group-board job, read the same two meta keys the integration uses:

add_action( 'wcb_job_approved', function ( $job_id ) {
    $approver_id = get_current_user_id();
    $board_id    = (int) get_post_meta( $job_id, '_wcb_board_id', true );
    $group_id    = (int) get_post_meta( $board_id, '_wcbp_group_id', true );
    if ( $group_id ) {
        // Log: $approver_id approved $job_id on group $group_id
    }
} );