Thanks for your reply, Robin. I appreciate your help and advice.
I have tried to set things up as you suggest but when I change the forum to private, there is a message displayed which just says “Oh, bother! No forums were found here” rather than a log in panel.
What I’d like is a short message along the lines of ‘this is a private forum for members of …. only’ please login below to participate’ and then the login panel.
Also, will this method of private forum display the admin bar once the user is logged? If possible, I would like to keep them out of the back end of the site altogether and keep any user profile options styled consistently with the front end of the website.
Thanks again
