This is such an obvious feature (in my opinion) so that it is clear on forums who are the admins, moderators, and members.

I decided to see if I could work out how to add it to my forums using my custom theme for bbPress 2.1.

I managed to get it to work after a bit of experimentation and many errors by adding this:

<?php

$reply_user_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id();

global $wp_roles;

$reply_user = new WP_User( $reply_user_id );

$roles = $reply_user->roles;

$role = array_shift($roles);

printf( isset($wp_roles->role_names[$role]) ? translate_user_role($wp_roles->role_names[$role] ) : false);

?>

into loop-single-reply.php.

Hope this is helpful to anyone else trying to do this.

I believe it was a feature on the standalone version of bbPress so why was it dropped on the plugin version? Is this likely to be re-added at any point?

[@bowromir Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

Thank you for posting this Nick! Very helpful indeed Just implemented this on our community forums!

[@sooskriszta Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

+1

Added to Trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1815

[@pos2012 Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

Thank you for posting this

Added to my 2.1

[@andrew55 Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

I’m very happy to have found this – very useful.

Question – any suggestions on how to adjust the code to where subscribers can also view the role of other users.

Thanks for any help.

[@andrew55 Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Got it – This seems to work for showing the first role:

<?php
$user = new WP_User( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
echo $user->roles[0];
?>

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 8 months ago]

@andrew55

bbPress should do this now by default like this site has it.

[@tarnvogl Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

for me it doesn’t :/
any suggestions why?

[@tarnvogl Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

@andrew55
bbPress should do this now by default like this site has it.

@robkk for me it doesn’t :/
any suggestions why?

[@tarnvogl Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

@robkk for me it doesn’t :/
any suggestions why?

I have found the solution. I pasted the code from NickMackz into the area of the IP adress, which was only visible for admins.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

alright but by default it does show.

in the default file of loop-single-reply.php

you will see this

<div class="bbp-reply-author">

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_author_details' ); ?>

		<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

		<?php if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) : ?>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_author_admin_details' ); ?>

			<div class="bbp-reply-ip"><?php bbp_author_ip( bbp_get_reply_id() ); ?></div>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_admin_details' ); ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details' ); ?>

	</div><!-- .bbp-reply-author -->

this is the code that shows it , hence the show role = true

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

[@rivaldo07 Participant 9 years, 5 months ago]

Any way to show this with an image? And how? I’ve designed some user roles in Photoshop, and I would really like to use them instead of the text.