[Peter A. Gebhardt]

Brad,

I’m confronted with a similar problem (on the ‘Post’ level): Beside visitors (lurkers), I need user categories like VIP or Paying (for content) too.

Where I was able to get an idea how to eventually handle it, was by looking at _ck_’s bb_attachments.php

Put this into capabilities.php just behind the memberblock:

'visitor' => array(

'name' => __('Visitor'),

'capabilities' => array(

'participate' => false,

'read' => true

)),

Then changing her (shipping) setup code in bb_attachments.php to this here:

$bb_attachments['role']['see']="participate";        // minimum role to see list of attachments = read/participate/moderate/administrate

$bb_attachments['role']['inline']="participate";    // add PAID ! minimum role to view inline reduced images = read/participate/moderate/administrate

$bb_attachments['role']['download']="participate";  // add PAID ! minimum role to download original = read/participate/moderate/administrate

$bb_attachments['role']['upload']="moderate";  // minimum role to upload = participate/moderate/administrate (times out with post edit time)

$bb_attachments['role']['delete']="moderate";  // minimum role to delete = read/participate/moderate/administrate

I was able to exclude the ‘Visitor’ from even seeing that there are attachments to a certain post.

Hope that helps.