[Woltan]

Dear forum,
I am new to WordPress and bbPress. I am looking for the following solution and hope some of you can help me along. Unfortunately, all my attempts of getting the stuff together myself failed.
I have a very simple site that only displays some information on a couple of pages. Now I would like to introduce a forum that is only accessible for registered users. (I am in no need to automate a process of registration since the number of users is very small.) I figured out how to set up the forum with categories etc. and it looks charming. However, I am not able to create any topics in the forums (apart form the admin panels) and the following message appears: “You must be logged in to create new topics.”

I have now the following question: How can I get a user to login in order to post to the forum?

Thank you in advance for any help, link, suggestion.
Regards
Woltan

[CodingMachine]

Okay buddy first thing u have to check is that in settings>general have you checked anyone can registration

[Woltan]

Why would I need to check that? I do not want that anyone can register. I could live with that I manually add the users as admin.
Could you elaborate on your suggestion please?

[Robkk]

I manually add the users as admin.

dont do that, just leave them as subscriber/participant and just manually change the roles of the particpants you want as a moderator .

if you want another admin make sure they are really trust-worthy like a person you knew for a couple months not a few days/weeks.

for people to create topics/replies they have to be a user to your site.

you can go the allow anyone to register which would allow any person to register to your site usually on a fresh wordpress install it would be here

http://www.yoursite.com/wp-login.php?action=register

if you dont want anyone to register try to go to a invite-only type site i guess.

there is some plugins for WordPress that add this type of functionality they usually allow you to customize your login/registration form too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=invite+only

here are some that might be useful

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/register-plus-redux/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-invites/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/invitereferrals-customer-referral-program/