I’m setting up my BBPress forum right now.

Looking at BBPress roles… is there a way to tie BBPress roles to WP user roles.

For example, I would like my WP editors to automatically be BBPress moderators, and for contributors and subscribers to be BBPress participants.

Is that possible?

Chris

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 6 months ago]

it would be code-able, but I don’t know of anything that does this already

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 6 months ago]

not tested, but the following in your functions file should do it

you’ll need to edit the code for which role does what

add_action('wp_login', 'rew_assign_role_on_login', 10, 2);

//this function assigns user to bbp roles on login
function rew_assign_role_on_login($user_login, $user) {
	$user_id = $user->ID ; 
	$role = get_role($use_id) ; 
	if (empty ($role)) return ; //has no role in the database
	if ($role == 'administrator' )  $new_role = 'bbp_keymaster' ;
	if ($role == 'editor' )  $new_role = 'bbp_moderator' ;
	if ($role == 'author' )  $new_role = 'bbp_moderator' ;
	if ($role == 'contributor' )  $new_role = 'bbp_participant' ;
	if ($role == 'visitor' )  $new_role = 'bbp_blocked' ;
	if ($role == 'subscriber' )  $new_role = 'bbp_spectator' ;
	bbp_set_user_role( $user_id, $new_role) 
	}

[@robkk Moderator 8 years, 6 months ago]

I say edit Robin’s code and change

if ($role == 'subscriber' ) $new_role = 'bbp_spectator' ;

To this.

if ($role == 'subscriber' ) $new_role = 'bbp_participant' ;

And in my opinion you should not auto-assign moderators and just manually update the users roles for each of the users you trust to moderate the forums. Also I am not sure there is a visitor WordPress role.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Summary_of_Roles

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 6 months ago]

Also I am not sure there is a visitor WordPress role.

oops… no there isn’t – old code left on my test site !

and who gets what were just examples 🙂

[@christopheran Participant 8 years, 6 months ago]

Thank you both very much – I am testing this out right now!

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 6 months ago]

great – to help others please post back your solution if successful, or come back for further help !

[@zirow Participant 4 years, 6 months ago]

I’ve tried @robin-w snippit above but didnt work with my current wordpress version(latest one according to the date of my post) but i managed to get it working with this snippit if anyone needs it.

Note: I’m a beginner to wordpress and bbpress so there might be other better ways of doing this.

function change_role(){
$user_id = $user->ID ;
if( current_user_can(‘administrator’)){

bbp_set_user_role( $user_id, ‘bbp_keymaster’ );

}
}
add_action(‘wp_login’, ‘change_role’);