So I’m trying to allow Editors to manage forums and forum posts. I was able to set all the capabilities to allow them to manage topics and replies but in the admin panel forum access is still denied and the page is entirely hidden from the admin side.

I did run across this topic but it’s 3 years old – is this still an issue?

Here’s what the capabilities look like that have been added:

[moderate_comments] => 1
[manage_categories] => 1
[manage_links] => 1
[upload_files] => 1
[unfiltered_html] => 1
[edit_posts] => 1
[edit_others_posts] => 1
[edit_published_posts] => 1
[publish_posts] => 1
[edit_pages] => 1
[read] => 1
[level_7] => 1
[level_6] => 1
[level_5] => 1
[level_4] => 1
[level_3] => 1
[level_2] => 1
[level_1] => 1
[level_0] => 1
[edit_others_pages] => 1
[edit_published_pages] => 1
[publish_pages] => 1
[delete_pages] => 1
[delete_others_pages] => 1
[delete_published_pages] => 1
[delete_posts] => 1
[delete_others_posts] => 1
[delete_published_posts] => 1
[delete_private_posts] => 1
[edit_private_posts] => 1
[read_private_posts] => 1
[delete_private_pages] => 1
[edit_private_pages] => 1
[read_private_pages] => 1
[list_users] => 1
[create_users] => 1
[delete_users] => 1
[edit_users] => 1
[publish_forums] => 1
[edit_forums] => 1
[edit_others_forums] => 1
[delete_forums] => 1
[delete_others_forums] => 1
[read_private_forums] => 1
[read_hidden_forums] => 1
[publish_topics] => 1
[edit_topics] => 1
[edit_others_topics] => 1
[delete_topics] => 1
[delete_others_topics] => 1
[read_private_topics] => 1
[publish_replies] => 1
[edit_replies] => 1
[edit_others_replies] => 1
[delete_replies] => 1
[delete_others_replies] => 1
[read_private_replies] => 1
[manage_topic_tags] => 1
[edit_topic_tags] => 1
[delete_topic_tags] => 1
[assign_topic_tags] => 1
[spectate] => 1
[participate] => 1
[moderate] => 1
[throttle] => 1
[view_trash] => 1
[keep_gate] => 1

As far as I can tell they’re exactly the same as the keymaster ( with some additional capabilities ) so why is the Forums still unaccessible in the admin panel?

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 5 months ago]

If you are happy for them to access the dashboard backend forums, topics and replies, then just make them worpdress editor, and bbpress keymaster. If you don’t want them to have backend forums, just topics and replies – then make them worpdress editor, and bbpress moderator

[@howdy_mcgee Participant 7 years, 5 months ago]

Thanks! I’ve been in the code so much I didn’t realize that BBPress has it’s own role to assign things like Keymaster. That ended up doing the trick.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 5 months ago]

no problem – glad you are fixed !