I am building a community website which will enable groups to post help requests on a bbpress forum. To post requests, all forum users must register.

In testing, when participants register for the forum, they are being assigned WP user roles too. I have set this to be Subscriber, but this is allowing them to access JetPack and some other things from the dashboard.

I don’t want forum particpants to have any access to the dasboard – only to bbpress forums. Am I missing a settings somewhere?

Thanks for your help.

I am using WP 4.7.3 and bbpress 2.5.12

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 8 months ago]

bbpress uses wordpress registration.

wordpress assumes that you will need a role, so requires all users to have one.

The wordpress toolbar is frankly horrible.

so simplest solution is to hide the toolbar for all but non admins

there are several plugins available to do this

eg https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar-from-non-admins/