[@ChrisClayton]

bbpress 2.0 allows you to have standalone forums (your normal forum style – vbulletin ect.) But, it doesn’t intergrate with groups. Yet.

[@ChrisClayton]

I did this with one of my sites simply by using a basic conditional to check if a user is logged in. If they are not logged in, they get redirected to my login page.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in

So, yes. It is possible

[@ChrisClayton]

Havent tested the plugin, but most of the standalone bbpress plugins are not being actively updated any more.

Is upgrading to bbpress 2.0 out of the question? Their is alot of facebook connect plugins that will work.

The ‘simple facebook connect’ plugin over at the wordpress extend was updated last month… but, it wont work on the stand-alone version of bbpress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/

if using bbpress 2.0 is not an option, i’ll have a look at the plugin tonight and see if anything can be fixed.

EDIT: The plugin not doing anything seems to be a facebook issue, alot of people seem to have the same issue.

[@ChrisClayton]

One of the worst things about a major update like this, is that we lose alot of great plugins – But, it’s better finding out now that their not actively updating it anymore than use it for a while and find out one day that everything’s broken

what type of html did you want your users posting?

Post toolbar allows alot of great functionality – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-toolbar/

It seems to do the same thing as ‘easy video embed’ by allowing users to post videos using a ‘[video]‘ or ‘[youtube]’ shortcode.

Also, because bbpress is now using WordPress post-types. you could also easily create other shortcodes to achieve what you want.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

Instead of letting users do img src and giving them complete control over the output of the image, you can allow them to do ‘[image]cat.img[/image]’ to achieve the same affect in an easier way, as an example.

I do honestly think that using shortcodes (search the wordpress extend, theirs alot of shortcode plugins) would be a better option as it allows you to control it’s use properly, as i’m sure you know, some humans enjoy causing trouble – and their are afew html codes that can causing a hellish experience for your users if it gets into the hands of the wrong user.

It’s one of the reasons wordpress.com doesn’t allow some html codes

[@ChrisClayton]

Hi Philv.

The plugin has not been upgraded for BBpress 2.0+

To use that plugin you will need to download the stand-alone version or bribe the plugin developer into updating it

or; finding a new plugin that is compatible for 2.0+.

Hope that helps.