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nerrad, that is fantastic, and thank you so much for sharing it.

So if this assigns roles to existing members, how do we deal with new sign-ups?

JJ, do you reckon this is a future-proof solution?

Any idea why bbPress’s bbp_set_current_user_default_role() function isn’t working?

@nerrad – yes please, a trac ticket would be great.

To clarify, you’re saying that s2member does not add itself to WordPress’s editable roles array, using WP_Roles->add_role() ?

My first guess is s2member hooks in too late, or some other plugin is loading the current user way too early in the stack. bbPress doesn’t perform any of those actions until it expects WordPress to make them happen naturally.

If the current_user is loaded before the ‘after_setup_theme’ action is called (because of an is_super_admin() check, a call to current_user_can(), etc…) bbPress fails gracefully, and waits until it’s time. If S2member waits until init to add its roles, or if the WP_Roles array doesn’t include the s2Member roles by the time ‘after_setup_theme’ has fired, $wp->init(); will get called, loading the current user, and bbPress will map the roles accordingly.

Another possible problem is bbp_get_user_role_map() not mapping custom roles; it only maps to WordPress core roles. A possible fix to bbp_set_current_user_default_role() would be to array_diff() editable_roles() vs bbp_get_dynamic_roles(), loop through them, use the map where it matters, and use the default role otherwise.

bbPress 2.2.1 is incoming, to fix this bug.

I have a similar problem (though not related to s2member). I have a custom Site Role (called “Student”), which I had enabled to participate in the Forums, by assigning the necessary Capabilities (using the Members plugin from Justin Tadlock). This worked fine in bbPress v2.1.2.

But I just updated to bbPress v2.2.1, and now bbPress has a new concept of Forum Roles, separate from (but somehow related to) Site Roles. So now all my Student users are unable to participate anymore!

I do NOT want to have to manually set the new Forum Role for each Student. Instead, I tried using the Members plugin to (again) add the necessary Capabilities to my Student role, to match those of bbPress’s new Participant role. I did this by matching the checkboxes displayed by the Members plugin. But this did not work. In fact the Members plugin shows that a Participant has 28 Capabilities, though only 8 are actually “checked”. So are some of a Participant’s capabilities somehow HIDDEN? Can I somehow tell bbPress to use my Student role?

Hoping for help on this.

@tzeldin88 – There’s a tool to batch the user forum role process, in Tools > Forums

It’s likely the custom roles you’re making won’t work, at least I haven’t tried it yet myself. While it’s not impossible to make work, I don’t think it’s a great setup for the future of your site.

WordPress purposely excludes a UI for roles and capabilities because they’re easy to muck up, and difficult to reset back to stock.

@tzeldin88 – Again, difficult to be confident, but you could filter bbPress’s role mapping, to add custom comparisons for your newly created roles. Then bbPress will just naturally make:

X site role = Y forum role

with each new user that visits the site.

The filter you’d want to use, is bbp_get_user_role_map. It looks like this:

/**
 * Return a map of WordPress roles to bbPress roles. Used to automatically grant
 * appropriate bbPress roles to WordPress users that wouldn't already have a
 * role in the forums. Also guarantees WordPress admins get the Keymaster role.
 *
 * @since bbPress (r4334)
 *
 * @return array Filtered array of WordPress roles to bbPress roles
 */
function bbp_get_user_role_map() {

	// Get the default role once here
	$default_role = bbp_get_default_role();

	// Return filtered results, forcing admins to keymasters.
	return (array) apply_filters( 'bbp_get_user_role_map', array (
		'administrator' => bbp_get_keymaster_role(),
		'editor'        => $default_role,
		'author'        => $default_role,
		'contributor'   => $default_role,
		'subscriber'    => $default_role
	) );
}

@JJJ – need help in the same regard.

I’m using amember and not s2member – and I need to block users from bbpress when their subscription becomes inactive (which means they are assigned a WP role of “amember expired” by amember).

Will JJJ’s code or tzelding88’s code above achieve this? Will it sustain mapping so that when a user’s WP role changes, bbpress’s role changes as well?

Many thanks.

For those having problems with Roles/Capabilities where s2Member/bbPress is concerned, you might want to take a look at this thread for some helpful tips. We’ve been working with some folks on this lately, so perhaps this thread will save you some grey hair 🙂

See: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/uninstalling-s2member-causes-permission-issue/#post-35231