[saudor]

Hello, I am trying to cut down on spam and defaulting all new users to spectator/subscriber mode and use certain “tasks” such as using the site to automatically change their role to participant/member.

I found this link but all it does is just make the forum role blank:

how to change forum roles programmatically

Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

BBpress Version 3.2. Updated to 4.1 but still same issue

[saudor]

figured it out!

Issuing the following command directly in a single line worked:
bbp_set_user_role( $user_id, ‘bbp_participant’ );

[Robin W]

great – glad you are fixed, and thanks for posting your solution