I’m looking for #1. Given this is a church site, and will be behind an already existing password protected area, I don’t want to trouble the general congregation with having to remember a second password. Most of them won’t want to do that.
Regarding password. I’m talking about a single password protected page on my site. Then I use this plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ft-password-protect-children-pages/
to then password protect child page under that one password protected page. Hasn’t been updated in forever, but despite the warning, it still works fine.
Now, the forums don’t use true child pages, so that plugin shouldn’t work – it didn’t. Tried anyway for the hell of it. So that led me to ask about whether bbpress can be put behind a general password like that – couldn’t find anything about password in the settings.
As for the style plugin, I’ll check that out. Tkx.