Topic: Roles and limits

Roles and limits

timelessdice
Participant

@timelessdice

8 years ago

Dear forum/support,

I haven’t used this amazing looking plugin yet but I’ve got a couple of questions that I couldn’t find.

Is it possible to create/edit roles?
For example:
The forum that I want to create is for a gaming community where we use the following roles:
Founder, Adviser, Staff Member, Game Administrator, Moderator, Community Manager, VIP, Long term Member and Member.

Second question I have is, is it possible to limit the access to several forum sections?
For example:
I want to have sections for several games such as:
Rainbow six siege > (sub sections) General, Competitive and Looking for group.
I also want to create Moderator+ only sections such as:
Staff discussions > (sub sections) Members, Games, Bans/Unbans and Rules.
This sections needs to be only accessable for the roles: Moderator, Game Administrator, Staff Member, Adviser and the Founder.

I’m looking forward to the replies.

Regards,

Timeless Dice

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Robin W

Moderator

@robin-w

8 years ago

you can add roles and/or change their names – see

Custom Capabilities

The following in an example that both adds new roles and changes the names of existing.

/* bbPress Custom Roles */
function add_custom_role( $bbp_roles ) {
 

$bbp_roles['my_custom_role2'] = array(
'name' => 'Craftsman',
'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // the same capabilities as participants
);
$bbp_roles['my_custom_role3'] = array(
'name' => 'Journeyman',
'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // the same capabilities as participants
);
$bbp_roles['my_custom_role4'] = array(
'name' => 'Adept',
'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // the same capabilities as participants
);
$bbp_roles['my_custom_role5'] = array(
'name' => 'Artisan',
'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_moderator_role() ) // the same capabilities as keymaster
);
$moderator = bbp_get_moderator_role() ;
$bbp_roles[$moderator] = array(
'name' => 'Councilman',
'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_moderator_role() ) // the same capabilities as moderator);
$keymaster = bbp_get_keymaster_role() ;
$bbp_roles[$keymaster] = array(
'name' => 'Advisor',
'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_keymaster_role() ) // the same capabilities as keymaster
);
$apprentice = bbp_get_participant_role() ;
$bbp_roles[$apprentice] = array(
'name' => 'Apprentice',
'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // the same capabilities as participants
);
return $bbp_roles;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'add_custom_role', 1 );

you can limit access to forums byh changing their visibility

Public – Anyone can see these forums
Private – Only logged in registered users with a forum role can see these forums
Hidden: Only Moderators/keymasters can see these forums

or if you want more control by using :
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

timelessdice

Participant

@timelessdice

8 years ago

Thank you very much for the quick reply!

I’m going to look into the information that you have provided and test it out later this week.