OK, many thanks for your help.
Hi Robin,
Thanks for this, I can see what it achieves.
As we see the website has a role attracting people to beekeeping and make as much information as possible freely available I keep access to the website as simple as possible, hence just password-protected members pages and I only ‘make’ members sign in if they want to post a new topic / reply.
Thus the Private Groups plugin probably overcomplicates things for our members.
Any other thoughts on how I might use the widget to advertise new topics yet ensure the (members) password needs to be entered to get to forum page.
Regards,