So ...

Let's discuss about forum settings and user roles ...

bbPress has a very simplified configuration page.

To manage settings for your bbPress forums, go to Settings => Forums.

This is the quite long bbPress settings page from where you can control several aspects of your forum:

The first option is “Disallow editing after”. Default option for this setting is 5 minutes. This setting allows Forum participants to edit their posts after publishing. After this time they will no longer be able to edit their posts. However, a forum Keymaster or Moderator can over ride this setting.

The second option “Throttle posting every” 10 seconds is basically a forum flood protection measure. It allows you to control after how much time a new post should appear on the forum.

On the settings page you can configure forum and topic slug as well as the number of topics and posts to appear per page. You can also allow users to subscribe to topics or add topics as favorites. And much more ...

Now let's see the roles ...

bbPress comes with five pre-defined roles, each with different capabilities.

• Keymaster – The website owner or the administrator is automatically assigned the Keymaster role when they install bbPress. A Keymaster can delete and create forums, can create, edit, delete all posts, topics, forums.

• Moderators – Users with moderator user role have access to moderation tools, which they can use to moderate forums, topics, and posts.

• Participants – This is the default user role, participants can create and edit their own topics and posts, they can favorite and subscribe to topics.

• Spectators – Spectators have a read only access to public forums, topics and posts.

• Blocked – When a user is blocked all their capabilities are blocked. They can still read publicly viewable topics and posts, but can not participate in the forums.

That is just how easy it is to create a forum in WordPress with bbPress.

And of course you can add other functionality by using over 100+ different bbPress plugins ...

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