Just getting around to playing with bbPress after it being released as a plugin. Curious if I’m missing something but is there a way to output the reply author user role with bbp_reply_class? I’d like to be able to style the entire row for a reply if the response is coming from a moderator.

[@dominornovus Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

I’ve had a look at bbp-includebpp-reply-template-php here:

http://etivite.com/api-hooks/bbpress/path/bbp-includesbbp-reply-template-php/

I looked through the following:

bbp_get_reply_author_url

bbp_get_reply_author_link

bbp_get_reply_author_id

bbp_get_reply_author_email

bbp_get_reply_author_display_name

bbp_get_reply_author_avatar

bbp_get_reply_author

It seems like you could use this one as a base for getting the role:

http://etivite.com/api-hooks/bbpress/trigger/apply_filters/bbp_get_reply_author/

There’s also a specific solution suggested here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/display-reply-author-role

function get_the_author_role() {

global $wpdb, $wp_roles, $authordata;



if ( !isset($wp_roles) )

$wp_roles = new WP_Roles();



foreach($wp_roles->role_names as $role => $Role) {

$caps = $wpdb->prefix . 'capabilities';

if (array_key_exists($role, $authordata->$caps))

return $Role;

}

}



function the_author_role() {

echo get_the_author_role();

}

There’s another topic here that discusses various ways of styling replies based on the user role:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/different-style-for-key-master-and-administrator-replies-1

Let me know how it goes.