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05/08/2018 7:17 pm
Hi, not sure if this question has been asked before - could not find anything in here...
I just installed wpForo on a test site. What I would like to do is the following:
1) Have open forums for all members registered on that site. This apparently is the standard.
2) Have one or more forums that are accessible by invitation only (e.g. to a select group of 20 members of the site). Is this possible? How do I set this up? I just ordered and installed the add-on Private Messages as I thought this would do this, but apparently I was mistaken on this. I cannot see how I would set up a private forum with this.
Best, Christoph
05/08/2018 8:20 pm
Hi @christophmmeier ,
Please take a look to this documentation: https://wpforo.com/docs/root/wpforo-settings/forum-accesses/
Topic starter
06/08/2018 8:51 am
Hi Razmik
Thanks for this pointer! Have done some reading. Apparently what I need to do is:
create new user groups, e.g.
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program community
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innovation circle 2018
set Forum Permissions so that e.g. only "program community" has standard access
set membership in user group (Members - edit profile - account - use group)
That appears to work for me. Please let me know if I seem to be going in a wrong direction.
Best, Christoph
Topic starter
06/08/2018 9:59 am
Hi Razmik, I do have an additional issue:
I managed to hide the "members" tab in the Forums Navigation bar so that not anybody can see who is a member of a forum.
Also, visitors to our site that are NOT registered users cannot see any recent forum posts (even they do see the tab).
BUT
It appears that any registered user on the site - even if not a member of the usergroup defined for private forums - can see the tab "recent posts" and the content / the posts listed there.
How can I prevent this. I would like private forums to be really private.
Best, Christoph
06/08/2018 1:33 pm
Hi @christophmmeier,
That's hard to help you if you've already done some wrong configuration. I'll try to help you using a brand new forum. Please create a new forum called "Program Community 2".
1. Create a new Usergroup called "PC Members 2"
2. Edit the "Program Community 2" forum and set these permissions:
- Admin - Full Access
- Moderator - Moderator
- Customer - No Access
- Registered - No Access
- Guests - No access
- Others... - No access
- PC Members 2 - Standard Access
3. Save it, delete all caches, navigate to Dashboard > Forums > dashboard and click on the [Delete all caches] button.
4. Change some regular user (Subscriber/Registered) usergroup to PC Members 2 , login with that user and create a new topic in Program Community 2 forum. Then logout and check the Recent Posts page as guest and as other regular user (Subscriber/Registered), don't use Admin/Moderator users for checking, they are always able to see topics of private forums.
Topic starter
06/08/2018 8:55 pm
Hi Tom
Thanks for your guidance!
I got it to work all right for me now.
Cool, powerful forum-plugin!
Thank you!
Best, Christoph