Reply from Members plugin author:
bbPress roles are not editable and cannot be changed. They’re handled completely within bbPress. Members will only allow you to view uneditable roles and doesn’t itself change them.
I’m glad you say that, at least it’s clear to me on how private and hidden should be used in theory, but it seems somewhere the plugins got mixed-up. bbPress Capabilities was last updated 4 years ago which means is probably not safe to use but fixes my problem, Members might or might not reply to my post, not really willing to pay for raising possible bugs, will let you know.
I did thank you. I found out that the one permission that is required to view private topics from bbPress Capabilities permissions, and which works on the Participant role is read_hidden_forums! the only pain is that is needs to be set on each user one by one, manageable for now.
thanks robin-w, I tried that plugin, changed a user back to Participant, the permissions listed for this user now indicated they can read_private_tocpic, but in effect they could not. I tried ” Remap existing users to default forum roles”, but no success.
I use Members plugin (by Justin Tadlock), and don’t have problems with Moderators viewing private topics, in fact I temporarily switched everyone to Moderator. This plugin doesn’t allow me to edit any of the bbpress roles, is this expected?
Oh well, I’ll make everyone a Moderator for now.
By the way, the topics are actually public, but as they’ve been created in private forums, I believe they are private.
