Hi there,

I’ve only just started using bbpress and still learning how to use it.

Is there a way to restrict a certain user role to one forum only? In other words, they can only view topics and replies in that forum.

Thanks in advance.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 days, 8 hours ago]

Add this additional plugin

Private groups

once activated, go to dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>help tab and read through how to set this up.

1. so for instance if you wanted ‘editors‘ to have their own private forum, then in

2. dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>group name settings and set up group 1 with a name ‘say editors-private-forum’. but could be whatever you want.

3. then in

dashboard>forums – create a forum, or edit an existing forum, and then under the description you will see a section headed ‘Forum Groups’ – assign this forum to the group you set above

so this forum is now only accessible to users who have that private group assigned.

4. then in

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>assign groups to roles

set the editors role (or whatever role you want to access the forum that you set up in step 1) to the group.

and that should set editors to be able to see and access that forum only

All other forums remain as they were.