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andy is correct that its much simpler to just let wp do it for you…  hopefully, your plugin is creating members in the standard wp 'way'…   if not (why not?), you could try calling our function sf_create_member_data($userid) when the member is created…

you can either do it manually on the forum – user groups – manage user groups panel… can move any user into any group… permissions consist of assigning a user group and permission set to a forum… suggest you read our wiki (link in footer) getting started section of intro on these concepts…

by default, users are auto entered into the user group you have specified on the forum – options – members settings panel… on that panel too, you can also auto assign them to user groups based on their wp role…

or use a membership plugin like wishlist… but yes, you are on the right track…

I personally know nothing about the 'Role Scoper' plugin other than having heard of it. All I can do is tell you how WP handles Roles generally.

The core roles that come 'out of the box' with a clean install of WP are held in an array in the database WP Options table in a record named 'user_roles' which is prefixed with your selected Table Prefix. So – commonly that would be 'wp_user_roles'.

This database record holds the name of the role and all of the built in capabilities that WP predefines.

Within the WP api code this data is exposed for plugin developers in a global array called $wp_roles which in turn is used by SP to populate that list in the members option panel.

Any plugin built to add new roles to WP needs to add them to that database record. That is what it is for. So all I can think of is that 'Role Scoper' is not doing this via the proper WP API but is doing it's own thing and therefore not exposing its data to other plugins. I have no evidence for this, as I say I am noit familiar with that plugin, but this answer does suggest itself. Do you know how it works and if it follows the WP api?