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Hi @eversatile

In case it helps in future, there is a support forum for bbPress where you can ask forum-related questions.

https://bbpress.org/forums/

Members need to log in at least once before they appear on the front end.

If you have questions about bbPress ( forums ), please ask on their support forum.

You are using bbPress, which handles its forum integration into BuddyPress.

Your question would be better suited there – bbpress.org/forums/

The BBP_Forums_Group_Extension issue is known and there is a fix.
See this ticket and link to patch.

Ok, so I thought I was either crazy or missing something simple, but this exact same thing is happening to me.

I ‘promote’ a member to Moderator, their avatar shows up as “Group Mod” – however, they never realize the ability to delete content within that group (except their own, of course).

Interestingly, after this ‘promotion’ their Forum role never changes from ‘participant’ in the WP users page, and their Site role stays at Subscriber. (not sure if that is normal behavior?)

I have deactivated all the other plugins except bbpress and buddypress, and the required theme plugins. I have tried it on two different themes.

If I promote the user to Group Admin, they do realize the delete privileges, but that’s not what I want to do as it includes other group edit functions.

WP 4.1
BP 2.2
bbp 2.54

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

Here is what they said in bbpress
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2599

You could use this plugin: https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-usernames-only

Which extends across to the bbPress side of a BuddyPress install. Note that by default, display names are enabled in the member header on profile pages. If you prefer usernames to be shown everywhere, add the following snippet to your wp-config.php file:

define( 'BP_SHOW_DISPLAYNAME_ON_PROFILE', false );

Hi @format19

You mention ‘the forum’. That’s bbPress and not BuddyPress functionality. Have you tried asking on their support forum?

This is what I use. It blocks access to all the BP and bbPress components, but allows visitors to see the blog. I’m sure you could customize it to kill access to that too.

When you attempt to access a page you shouldn’t be able to see, you are redirected back to the home page

/**
 * Block public access to site with some exceptions.
 */
function hwdsb_block_access() {
	if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
		return;
	}

	$redirect = is_buddypress();

	$site_path = bp_core_get_site_path();

	// subdirectory install
	if ( is_multisite() && ! is_subdomain_install() ) {
		global $current_blog;
		$site_path = $current_blog->path;
	}

	// strip site path from URI
	$path = substr( esc_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ), strlen( $site_path ) );

	if ( ! $redirect && function_exists( 'is_bbpress' ) ) {
		$redirect = is_bbpress();
	}

	// redirect if we match a condition and we're not on the homepage
	if ( (bool) $redirect === true && $path != '' ) {
		bp_core_redirect( bp_core_get_root_domain() );
		exit();
	}

}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'hwdsb_block_access', 0 );

Your best bet is to talk to NextGen. It’s probably a known issue. If you do, tell them what versions of WP, BP, bbPress and NextGen you have installed. Ditto re your theme.

I think creating a user role with ‘forum-only’ capabilities is perhaps your best bet. Try asking over at the bbPress support forum. The guys over there are specialists when it comes to forums (bbPress) so you may find some more joy there.

hi @lucdkny,

if you’re comfortable with CSS and JS, you could try this.
The important part is the JS and your own CSS rules
And of course, you can check this forum source code, wich uses a customized bbpress template.

Remove both the background colors.
Change the text color to black.

In In bb-base/style-buddypress.css:

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta .bbp-topic-started-in a {
	/* background-color: #be3631; */
}

In bb-base/style.css:

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta .bbp-topic-started-in a {
	color: #000000;
	padding: 2px 5px;
	border-radius: 3px;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

Hey @skyrant, project lead chiming in here. Apologies for @ubernaut’s response; it doesn’t come across as very helpful or inviting, nor does it point you in any directions as to where to start building this type of functionality, which is the type of helpful reply I would expect from our forums normally.

You’ll want to look into WordPress’s map_meta_cap filter, and more specifically, our bp_moderate capability checks.

In the old days, we used a bunch of is_super_admin() checks to only allow the type of access you desire to network administrators. This proved to be too powerful an assumption once BuddyPress started working on Single-Site installations, and so we ported (almost) everything to checking for bp_moderate instead.

You could create a new role and grant it the bp_moderate capability. In doing so, any user with that role will have the ability to moderate the entire BuddyPress community.

This also is a bit more powerful than we would like it to be, and in the future we hope to introduce dedicated roles and capabilities all through-out BuddyPress very similarly to the way we did with bbPress. It’s not in the immediate roadmap however, so if this is an area you’re interested in, and want to help us improve it, let’s keep a dialogue going here and see if anyone else chimes in.