Maybe a silly one…

I want a forum on my wp site. But the forum has to be just for members.
On my site i have Menu Items Visibility Control and WordPress Access Control. If i set the forum in the menu just for members using first the visibility control, and then set the forums on hidden. Is that enough? Is that also preventing bots to crawl the forum?

I’m a noob with WP and bbpress, so if this is a really silly question, i am sorry 🙂

[@robkk Moderator 11 years ago]

only logged in users can see it??
paid members can join??
only logged in members can post??

what exactly are you looking for.

[@cees50 Participant 11 years ago]

I have a site that has two parts. One for all audience, and the second one for members. Members are users manually set by me. So no registration is possible. The forum is in the part just for members. So the purpose is only members can post and see the forum.

That said, means no bots also.. 🙂

[@robkk Moderator 11 years ago]

i think maybe this plugin will help.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/

maybe also this if you want to try groups

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/