About: Allan

Hi Eduan,

Thanks for your reply. It seems I have mixed things up a little. There is a standard user role that can be assigned in BBpress 2.3.2 so that new users are only allowed to “spectate”. This means they will not be allowed to post anything but can read in the forum.

This is exactly the functionality I was looking for.

However upgrading a new member to S2 – Level 1 does NOT change the forum role role so even after becoming a “real” member it seems they stay with the forum role of “spectator” which is not good because members should have additional rights assigned automatically.

The fact that the BBpress role seems static does that mean I will have to update forum roles manually? Meaning their genneral site role AND their Forum role has to be updated separately. I hope not…

The documentation that confuses me is under “S2 other Integrations” where I found this:

*** Quote:

Membership Levels provide incremental access:

* A Member with Level 4 access, will also be able to access Levels 0, 1, 2 & 3 (plus spectate/participate in bbPress® Forums).
* A Member with Level 3 access, will also be able to access Levels 0, 1 & 2 (plus spectate/participate in bbPress® Forums).
* A Member with Level 2 access, will also be able to access Levels 0 & 1 (plus spectate/participate in bbPress® Forums).
* A Member with Level 1 access, will also be able to access Level 0 (plus spectate/participate in bbPress® Forums).
* A Subscriber with Level 0 access, will ONLY be able to access Level 0 (plus spectate/participate in bbPress® Forums).
* A public Visitor will have NO access to protected content (and no special access to bbPress® Forums).

*** End quote

If I could make a wish I would like the following functionality:

The Standard role set in BBpress should be followed no matter what.

When a user is upgraded to S2 level 1 or higher he should at the same time get the Forum role of “Participant”. (If not set to participant already or he has a higher role already for instance key-master or similar)

A public visitor should have acces to the forum page unless access is restricted with the normal restriction tools which on the other hand shold work for the forum page.

Ideally the above settings should be configurable from the S2 member plugin settings page.

It could be a cofiguration mapping each S2 member level custom capabilities for instance covering bbpress roles.

/Lars current Web master…