I want to create a new user role on my forum, as a basis for fiddling with the private forums plugin. Essentially I want to be able to give some users on my forum a specific role (in addition to 'member') that will allow them to access specific forums without giving them mod/admin powers. I'll need more than one new role (it's for a Guild Wars alliance forum, and each guild needs to have its own private section).
I'm fairly confident as to how to modify the private forums plugin to enable what I want - all I need to know is how to create the new user roles to enable this.
I've managed to establish that add_role is the bbPress function I want, but (knowing absolutely no php) I have no idea how to use it. Can anyone help me out? Thanks :)