The default bbPress Roles are Keymaster, Moderator, Participant, Spectator, and Blocked. However, there is no option to rename these roles. For this tutorial, we will be adding a custom role called “Developer” that we want to have the same capabilities as the participant rank, which is the default rank.
- Navigate to your site’s public_html/wp-content/themes/(theme name)
- Open functions.php
- The first line, which is <?php , should not be edited.
- On the next line, paste this code:
function add_custom_role( $bbp_roles ) {
$bbp_roles['developer'] = array(
'name' => 'Developer',
'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // i just want them to have the same capabilities as participants
);
return $bbp_roles;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'add_custom_role', 1 );
- If you want to change the name of your role, just edit the code above from developer to whatever you want your role to be before saving the functions.php file.
- As long as your theme doesn’t update, these roles will work. If you know how to use child themes in WordPress, that would be a much better solution, but it is up to you.
first of all thank you for this post it was really helpful to start with custom user type in wordpress. But I want to use new registration form in my website and add the role of custom created user to that registration how can I achieve this ? any help will be appreciated. thank you !
These are custom bbPress roles, not custom general WP roles. However, in bbPress settings you should be able to assign a default bbPress role to users that do not have one. The custom bbPress role should be assignable within this menu.