
bbPress User Role Editor conflict fix
bbPress, popular WordPress plugin realizing forum functionality on the base WordPress framework and, as themselves say “WordPress way”, introduced enhanced role model starting from version 2.2. bbPress users, who use
“User Role Editor” (URE) WordPress plugin to manage blog user roles, suddenly discovered that URE shows bbPress roles with almost all capabilities turned on, even for minimal ‘Blocked’ and ‘Spectator’ roles.
URE showed bbPress roles quite well before the bbPress version 2.2. update. What’s happened?
Let’s look. WordPress stores its roles data the way, that only active capabilities stored into the role.