It worked!! I can create vanity forum titles now without changing any permissions.
It worked wonderfully, thank you!
Now I just need to get people on the forum, LOL!
Robin: I’ll check it out when I get back to the office and let you know how it goes.
Thanks!
Users have both a site role and a forum role, and those are the specific terms used within wordpress and bbPress, respectively. Thank you for your concern, but I believe I understand the difference. I’ve never seen any reference to the word rank, but it would undoubtedly alleviate some confusion if bbPress were to use that term in place of forum role.
I would like to be able to allow forum users to earn ranks and titles like achievements. Notable badges or icons everyone can see. I think it would add a lot of depth to the forum, but maybe bbPress is not the best tool for that.
Not immediately, no, but I have access to experienced professionals.
Oh… Well poop! Can you recommend a more versatile forum plugin?
Hey Robin, I’m sorry this guy never came back and elaborated, but I have the same question. It seems like such an obvious thing to me, I really can’t figure out why there’s no documentation on it.
I’m using bbPress 2.5.3, which comes with some built-in forum roles:
Keymaster
Moderator
Participant
Spectator
Blocked
Sure, I’d like to be able to change the names of these roles, but more importantly, I’d like to add new ones. Permanent ones. What about a moderator for only a specific forum, rather than all of them?
Specifically, I would like to have several different types of Participants, but without a change in permissions. I’d really just like to change what it says under a person’s name on the forum. Like a title, badge, or mark of prestige for forum users.
I have this great site role editor called Members, but it has nothing to do with the forum roles. If I could have some similar functionality for bbPress, that would be great. Do you know if this is a possibility?
