Title: [Plugin: WP PHPbb Bridge] All added users in PHPbb become Admin in WordPress
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP PHPbb Bridge] All added users in PHPbb become Admin in WordPress

 *  [internetcie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/internetcie/)
 * (@internetcie)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-all-added-users-in-phpbb-become-admin-in-wordpress/)
 * Dear all,
 * I have a perfectly working WordPress blog and a perfectly working (closed, only
   for some of my friends) forum. Yesterday, I tried to link them with the plugin
   WP Phpbb bridge.
 * The widget on my WordPress site works, the authentication on both parts too. 
   Unfortunately, when I add a new forum member with the ‘Add user’ mod (I closed
   the public Registering option on WordPress as well as PHPbb) ([http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/acp_add_user_mod/](http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/acp_add_user_mod/))
   they automatically become an administrator on WordPress, while they are just 
   a regular member on the forum..
 * When a forum users logs in with his own Phpbb account information on the WordPress
   blog in the ‘login phpbb bridge widget’, he gets redirected to the phpbb page
   that says something like ‘You are now logged in, please click here to return 
   to the previous page.’ When they return to the WordPress page, they are, strangely
   enough, logged in my WordPress administrator account. Even showing my email-address
   etc.? When they visit just the forum, there is nothing strange and they are just
   regular users without administration rights.
 * I tried emptying the cache from WordPress as well as phpBB, I tried using different
   computers and different IP’s, but whatever I do, my PHPbb users get logged in(
   using their own login information!) into my WordPress administrator account.
 * WordPress is located in a seperate database from phpbb. The wordpress location
   is in the root, while phpbb is domain.com/forum
 * Is there any way to add members in Phpbb that get the role of ‘Subscriber’ assigned
   on the WordPress blog in stead of – apparently – administrator.
 * Thanks in advance!
 * (Using WordPress 3.3, PHpbb 3.0.10, WP PHP bridge 2.0, ACP Add User MOD 1.1.0)

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 *  [SigiLee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sigilee/)
 * (@sigilee)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-all-added-users-in-phpbb-become-admin-in-wordpress/#post-2490434)
 * I posted about this very same problem. It doesn’t seem to be that the phpbb user
   just has admin rights, but more like the user gets transformed into the admin
   user.
    Take a look at the “Howdy” message in the WordPress top bar on the right
   side. When I first visit your WP page with my phpbb user, it says “Howdy my_phpuser”,
   on accessing the admin page, the message changes to “Howdy admin”. Is this the
   same for you?
 * My topic: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-phpbb-bridge-wth-any-user-has-access-to-wp-site-admin](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-phpbb-bridge-wth-any-user-has-access-to-wp-site-admin)
 * Some response would be very welcomed since this seems to be very broken at the
   moment, or we are doing something very wrong. In either way it would be nice 
   which is the case.
 *  Thread Starter [internetcie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/internetcie/)
 * (@internetcie)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-all-added-users-in-phpbb-become-admin-in-wordpress/#post-2490435)
 * I actually got the following answer regarding my situation from the Xtnd.it team:
 * Hello Rick.
 * Unfortunately we can’t help you with the problems you describe, because there
   is no a WP phpBB Bridge bug. As you say the plugin working good. So what you 
   have to do is to check the logged in users permissions somehow from within the
   WordPress. A plugin we use to check the permissions for our users is : User Role
   Editor ([http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/))
 * By creating user roles and assign to them the permissions you like you will be
   able to control you content visibility.
 * Kind regards
    Xtnd.it Group
 *  Thread Starter [internetcie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/internetcie/)
 * (@internetcie)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-all-added-users-in-phpbb-become-admin-in-wordpress/#post-2490436)
 * And for the record, there is nothing special with my WP User Role permissions..

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## Tags

 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/)
 * [administrator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/administrator/)
 * [authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/authentication/)
 * [phpBB](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/phpbb/)
 * [rights](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rights/)
 * [role](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/role/)

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