Level 0, BBPress, Spectate

#1

I’d like to restrict “free” members to spectate on BB Press, but the default for s2member is spectate + participate.

I have installed Capability Manager Enhanced, and denied the following capabilities to the Level 0 role: participate, read_private_forums, publish_topics, edit_topics, publish_replies, edit_replies, assign_topic_tags

But Capability Manager Enhanced seems to be permissive and it appears these restrictions are overridden by the fact free members have the Participant forum role.

I have seen hints in older forum threads that adding code to s2-hacks.php may offer a solution, but haven’t found any real suggestions.

Ideally I’d like people joining on a free membership to be assigned the Spectator forum role, and not Participator.

Has anyone any suggestions?

Many thanks!

#2

In case this is useful to anyone else that might want to make bbpress forums read only to level0 members, here’s what I’ve done … in s2-hacks.php:

add_action('ws_plugin__s2member_after_security_gate', 'my_custom_security_gate');
function my_custom_security_gate() {
    if(!current_user_can('access_s2member_level1') && current_user_can('bbp_participant')) {
        $user = wp_get_current_user();
        $new_role_forum_role="bbp_spectator";
        bbp_set_user_role($user->ID, $new_role_forum_role);
    }
}
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