Title: bbPress Capabilities
Author: John James Jacoby
Published: <strong>April 26, 2014</strong>
Last modified: April 26, 2014

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# bbPress Capabilities

 By [John James Jacoby](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbp-capabilities.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-capabilities/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-capabilities/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-capabilities/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-capabilities/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/)

## Description

A handy tool for viewing, editing, or resetting a specific user’s forum capabilities.

## Installation

 1. Place the ‘bbp-capabilities’ folder in your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
 2. Visit your ‘Plugins’ page, and activate bbPress Advanced Capabilities.
 3. Edit a user with a role in your forums.
 4. Scroll to the bottom and you will see a new table, where you can edit or reset 
    a user’s forum capabilities.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Place the ‘bbp-capabilities’ folder in your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
 2. Visit your ‘Plugins’ page, and activate bbPress Advanced Capabilities.
 3. Edit a user with a role in your forums.
 4. Scroll to the bottom and you will see a new table, where you can edit or reset 
    a user’s forum capabilities.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/03e4b40698ba5e624051682a54fd3127ae88b7f1cf55834e8f8555e97c391e33?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn´t seem to work on 4.7.2.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-seem-to-work-on-4-7-2/)󠁿

 [hrobjartur](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hrobjartur/) February 24, 2017 1 reply

I installed the plug-in on my current setup 4.7.2 and could not get the plugin to
work ;-(

 [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“bbPress Capabilities” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ John James Jacoby ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/)

[Translate “bbPress Capabilities” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbp-capabilities)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bbp-capabilities/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bbp-capabilities/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bbp-capabilities/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bbp-capabilities/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.9.40**
 * Tags
 * [bbPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bbpress/)[capabilities](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/capabilities/)
   [forums](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/forums/)[roles](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/roles/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-capabilities/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.8 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  3 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ John James Jacoby ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-capabilities/)