Sorry as I’m sure this has been brought up before, but I couldn’t find a good answer…

Is it possible to create user groups and establish private categories within a bbPress forum? I’m working on setting up a site that will work as a collaboration between 5 different organizations, and ideally I want the forum to work like so:

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General Forums (anyone can see / post, sitewide moderators can moderate)

Org 1 Forums (anyone can see, only org 1 members can post, org1 officers and sitewide moderators can moderate)

Org 1 Officers Forum (only org 1 officers can see / post, sidewide moderators can moderate)

And so on for Organizations 2-5.

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I have been bashing my head against the wall trying to figure this out for a while, and it is basically what is keeping me from deploying bbPress.

My site is http://www.neohouston.com, which is a heavily customized WordPress site. I would love to use bbPress if I can because of how fast and light it is – but if I can’t effectively segment users then I can’t use it.

Any suggestions, or help?

[@zaerl Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

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