[demonboy]

I am confused as to how to make a ‘contributor’ of wordpress automatically a ‘participant’ in the forum. How do I automate this? I am using BuddyPress, bbpress and User Role Editor plugin. At the moment even if they are a participant I have to manually go through each user and change their access to each element of the forum which, by default, is all set to ‘deny’ so that a participant can’t even see the forum.

[demonboy]

I enclose a screen shot of my problem. I created a new user and set their Forum role as ‘Participant’. I clicked ‘save’ but this has not updated their forum capabilities. They remain ‘denied’.

[demonboy]

OK, solved it. This had to do with my theme where I had settings under BuddyPress to create a new group. I did so and used the forum keys to add to capabilities.