Hello bbPress team,

Firstly i would like to thank you for making bbPress. Its a nice handy plugin for wordpress lovers. Right now, i am trying to create a Expert Question-Answer forum using wordpress. My site has 2 types of roles. 1st is normal and 2nd is expert. Now, i need to add a functionality so that Normal users can ask their doubts in forums. But, only Experts should be able to reply to his topic or the author of the topic itself. Is this possible with bbPress? Please let me know.

I am using bbPress 2.5.4 on WordPress 4.0.

Thanks,
ankytt

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

yes,

Your ‘experts’ will be participants, or even moderators.

Then for your ‘normal’ you’ll need to set up a custom role

see

Custom Capabilities

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

you just need to set up a role where the user can not do any of the reply capabilities

If you are then allowing some form of automatic registration, then set the default bbpress role to this custom one in dashboard>settings>forums auto role