Hi! I have bbPress as a plugin on WordPress and BuddyPress powered website. On my WordPress I have users set up as Editors, Authors, and Contributors.

For the forum, I’d like editors and authors to also have forum moderation abilities in addition to their preexisting WordPress capabilities. I don’t want them to *just* be moderators.

Is this possible? I looked at the roles documentation, but I can’t figure it out.

Thanks!

[@lynq Participant 12 years, 6 months ago]

You could add a new role for your site: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_role

[@mindsink-web Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

Hope this helps:

Add this to the bottom of your theme’s functions.php file. For example wp-content/themes/mycurrenttheme/functions.php

function add_my_new_theme_caps() {

$role = get_role( ‘editor’ ); // gets the editor role

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘manage_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘assign_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘moderate’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘throttle’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘view_trash’ );

}

add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘add_my_new_theme_caps’);

function add_my_new_theme_caps2() {

$role = get_role( ‘author’ ); // gets the editor role

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘manage_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘assign_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘moderate’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘throttle’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘view_trash’ );

}

add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘add_my_new_theme_caps2’);

[@craftcore Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

Mindsink, thank you so much! That’s perfect!

[@pxforti Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

Awesome. Thanks for posting that. Worked for me.

[nyks-barton]

Looks perfect. As I only want to give Editors the forum-moderation, I think, I only have to add the first part of the code.

A small hint: as I understand the code, there the code-comment in the 2nd part i incorrect:s
$role = get_role( ‘author’ ); // gets the editor role
It gets the author-role, isnt it?

• This reply was modified 12 years, 1 month ago by nyks-barton.
• This reply was modified 12 years, 1 month ago by nyks-barton.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 12 years, 1 month ago]

I’d hold off, as bbPress 2.2 will address this specifically.

[@nyks-barton Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Hi Keymaster,

can you give us a rough estimate, when 2.2 will be released?