[Trobee]

I am looking into how to add the commenters role to the author section for topics and replies, similar to this forum, but I am not having much luck getting it to work. How is it done here?

[Anointed]

In order to add capabilities to a WordPress roll you need to use some type of capability manager plugin.

Here are a few good ones:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/

Any of the above plugins will allow you to add additional capabilities on a per role basis. All of them work well and it just comes down to which one you like the most.

[Trobee]

I think you misunderstood my question. I have my roles and capabilites set up, I am just missing the php code to display the role in forum posts, (ie where it says member under my name and moderator underneath yours)