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Sorry for the delay in my reply. I saw it had been marked as resolved and didn’t realize it had been re-posted right after.

You would need to add the custom meta to the new user profile field. As you mentioned, my previous reply explains how to do this: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-assigning-of-permission?replies=4

As for how this might be applied to buddypresss in particular, I’ve not done it myself but this page seems to explain how it could be done: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-custom-usermeta-to-registration/

Hope this helps

Hi Max, this plugin is only built for WordPress pages. We do not currently have the time or resources to build it for BBpress.

After you’ve created the user with wp_insert_user, it returns the user ID of the newly-created user.

Use this in the update_user_meta function to add the permission meta to the user:
update_user_meta( $user_id, $meta_key, $meta_value)

It is important to note that our plugin prepends “simple-restrict-” to the page permission slug and to the user meta (to avoid conflicts with other user metas).

Therefore, you would run something like this:
update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘simple-restrict-bigkahuna’, ‘yes’ )

Let us know if you run into trouble.

Hi Bob,

Looking into your question further, one way to automate the hiding of a menu item based on the current user’s permissions would be to use the plugin “If Menu”:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/if-menu/

It allows you to show menu items only if certain conditions are met and, importantly, allows you to write your own custom condition functions. So you could write a custom function that verifies if the user’s permission matches the permissions of the page that the menu item is linking to. If it does, you show the menu item. If not, you don’t.

I assume you also want those pages to be restricted to the general public, correct?

If so, then you could assign a permission to all your pages (you can do so with bulk edit), and then assign that permission to all your users except those few users.

Thanks for your positive input and don’t be shy to review the plugin (as a new plugin, this can help it grow).

Hi Bob, sorry for the delay in my reply. No, it does not automatically hide any menu items that link to that page.