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Hi, sorry you didn’t get answered the first time

bbpress roles are separate to wordpress roles, and confusingly don’t appear as part of the user creation.

So

go into

Dashboard>users>set up new user

set up your user for wordpress, and click confirm/save or whatever it says.

It will come back with a screen saying ‘user created – edit user’ click the edit part and go back into the user (you can also do this anytime by just editing the user through ‘all users’)

At the bottom of this screen you will now see forum role, and here you set their forum level.

Click save, and you user will now have the appropriate forum level access.

I know you’ll be screaming by now – I’m just a volunteer so don’t blame me that this is how it works !

If you go back up to the worpress roles, you also see in the wordpress role dropdown that you can set “no role for this site” – so you can have a user who has say participant role for the forums but no role for the wordpress bit. I use this in conjunction with the ‘restrict content’ plugin to have a membership site where club members have access through the wordpress subscriber role to members only pages (and access to the forums through the participant role), whilst letting non-members access and contribute to the forums by having no wordpress role, but just a bbpress participant role.

Come back if any of that isn’t clear !

Great – glad you’re fixed !