Reply To: Allow bbPress participants to delete their own topics

[Vladimir]

Hi,
In order to force bbPress to use ‘delete_replies’ and ‘delete_topics’ capabilities for content authours add this code to your active theme functions.php file or setup it as a “must use” plugin:

add_filter('bbp_map_reply_meta_caps', 'bbp_delete_own_replies', 10, 4);

function bbp_delete_own_replies($caps, $cap, $user_id, $args) {
    if ($cap!=='delete_reply' || in_array('do_not_allow', $caps)) {  
        return $caps;        
    }
    
    $_post = get_post( $args[0] );
    if (empty($_post)) {
        return $caps;
    }
    
    if ($_post->post_author==$user_id) {
        $caps = array('delete_replies');
    }
    
    return $caps;    
}

add_filter('bbp_map_topic_meta_caps', 'bbp_delete_own_topics', 10, 4);

function bbp_delete_own_topics($caps, $cap, $user_id, $args) {

    if ($cap=='delete_topic' || in_array('do_not_allow', $caps)) {
        return $caps;
    }
    
    $_post = get_post( $args[0] );
    if (empty($_post)) {
        return $caps;
    }
    
    if ($_post->post_author==$user_id) {
        $caps = array('delete_topics');
    }
    
    return $caps;
}