Hello!

I am getting started with bbpress and have searched Google and the bbpress forums for an answer to this to no avail – Can I let anybody, even people who aren’t logged-in, post to my bbpress forum? If so, how can I set this up?

Thanks!

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 6 months ago]

This allows anonymous posting:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-anonymous-posting/

This allows you to add Name/email/website fields:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-meta/

But it’s really tricky stuff to add post-level meta info to version .9, so this may not be a stable combo of plugins. It should get a lot easier to have post-level meta information in 1.0…

[@markus-pezold Participant 15 years, 6 months ago]

Hi …

for the stable 0.95 release there is a plugin to allow anonymous user to post:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-anonymous-posting

I use this plugin in combination with:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test

But in my test environment the plugin don’t work with the bbPress 1.0 Release Candidate.

[@llamaman Member 15 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks, guys!! I will try those out!

[@frooyo Member 15 years, 6 months ago]

@Markus Pezold

Thanks but this is not exactly what I’m looking for.

I do NOT want Anonymous posting.

What I simply want to do is display the HTML textarea field to either create a post or reply to an existing post to non-logged in users.

Then, once that user clicks submit – it then asks them to either login or create an account.

I don’t believe this is driven by bbPress but it’s a demostration of what I’m talking about.

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk

Notice how at the bottom of the page, you can “Start New Discussion”, then once you submit the form – it prompts you to login.

[@markus-pezold Participant 15 years, 6 months ago]

Hi… hmmm…

I’ve no idea yet, if its possible to implement this function to a bbPress Board.

If you take a look deep into http://www.streeteasy.com you can see this forum saves the input into an cookie file (discussion_category_id=3007; discussion_title=Test; comment=test;). So – there it’s possible to log in or to register – and then use your input for a new entry.