They’re new in bbPress 2.2.
- Spectators can view the forum, but cannot contribute.
- Visitors are what you are before you become a participant. You have the same capabilities as a participant, but you haven’t participated yet.
Could probably remove/hide the Visitor role from display, since it’s not really useful for anyone to manually select it.
OK, thank JJJ (maybe is a good idea to put inside codex page) 🙂
I’m also trying to get my head round the new roles… Why do visitors and participants have the same capabilities?
Spectators: can read public forums and posts, but not post.
Visitors: can post on public forums…
Surely, participants should be able to read and post on private forums?
Moderators: apart from editing others posts, they can view hidden forums?
Keymaster: full control
Thanks,
Andy
Indeed… Also no way to make a pvt forum (or staff only forum) :/
Latest question, sorry…
What is: Automatically assigns the default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site?
ATM new user is set to Participant from default… What expect if i enable this? Someone can try to best explain (yes, i know, my English is really poor… i’m sorry) 😐
bbPress 2.2 roles and capabilities (according to Members plugin)
While we are waiting for the documentation, I thought this might be a handy reference:
Blocked
(none)
Spectator
spectate
Visitor and Participant
assign_topic_tags
edit_replies
edit_topics
participate
publish_replies
publish_topics
read_private_forums
spectate
Moderator
assign_topic_tags
delete_others_replies
delete_others_topics
delete_replies
delete_topic_tags
delete_topics
edit_forums
edit_others_replies
edit_others_topics
edit_replies
edit_topic_tags
edit_topics
edit_replies
edit_topics
manage_topic_tags
moderate
participate
publish_forums
publish_replies
publish_topics
read_private_forums
read_private_replies
read_private_topics
spectate
throttle
Key Master
assign_topic_tags
delete_forums
delete_others_forums
delete_others_replies
delete_others_topics
delete_replies
delete_topic_tags
delete_topics
edit_forums
edit_others_forums
edit_others_replies
edit_others_topics
edit_replies
edit_topic_tags
edit_topics
keep_gate
manage_topic_tags
moderate
participate
publish_forums
publish_replies
publish_topics
read_hidden_forums
read_private_forums
read_private_replies
read_private_topics
spectate
throttle
view_trash
*Please note the last role above is supposed to be “Keymaster” – I would edit my post but I don’t have the capability…
If I get a change today i’ll try to update https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/
That said though if anyone else wants to update it before I get a chance feel free to do so, if you have a bbpress.org username and pass you can edit the codex docs yourself. There are quite a few updates needed for 2.2 in the codex docs and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just click ‘login’ at the top right of the page using the same bbPress username & password you use here at bbpress.org and edit away.
I totally get the reason for the ‘entry level’ that can’t do anything.
I want to run a velvet rope community for like-minded creatives (I mod such a forum on a large, commercial forum but they’re having serious, probably existential difficulties) and I want to be able to review new applicants. This seems perfect for what I want. The new user registers, I get the notice, I check him out, I upgrade him to an active role.
I did have some difficulties finding the Forum User Role edit field (in the user profile edit UI) at first but everything seems fine, now.
Things seem to be falling into place nicely, now. (Particularly since I tumbled to the GD bbPress tools. The quote plugins I’d tried previously were getting hosed in the WYSIWYG editor. )
