[Rob Sbaglia]

I am running a WordPress network with the latest version of Buddypress and bbpress. The site is http://theglobalschool.net/science and it is run for high school students.

My problem is that every time a blog is viewed, that viewer is added as a user, which makes things very confusing after a short while. Is there any way I can prevent this from happening? I noticed there is a checkbox in the settings for forums but it doesn’t seem to resolve the problem.

Thanks,
Rob.

[Robkk]

I don’t think viewing a blog automatically registers the user.

Do you just need a better way to manage who registers on your site?? Maybe manual approval or by invites only?

Or do you just not want users to register and also be able to be a participant in the forums?

[Rob Sbaglia]

It’s not registering the user; the user becomes a “participant” on the blog they have viewed. The only person who can register a user is me.

Example of what happens: a blog on my multisite is http://theglobalschool.net/science/news . The only user for this blog is the administrator.

Another member of the multiside views this blog, and immediately becomes a “participant” of this blog. I don’t want this to occur because, when students log into the site, on the toolbar they see a whole bunch of blogs listed under “my blog” which they cannot contribute to.

I have the latest version of WordPress, and have tried deleting bbPress and reinstalling to no avail.

Suggestions?

[Robkk]

So the users gain the bbPress forum role of participant for each site they are viewing? Is there any forums on these other blogs, or is the forums just on a subsite?

[Rob Sbaglia]

They are just listed as “participant” under users of the blog in question. I’m not sure whether they are bbpress forum roles, but bbpress must have something to do with it because when I uninstall bbpress the behaviour stops.

There are no forums on these blogs, just the parent blog (http://theglobalschool.net/science).

Try it for yourself. Go to a sub-blog (http://theglobalschool.net/science/nerissabcr). Hover over “blog authors”. There are heaps – most have only viewed the blog. Notice ‘teststudent’ is not listed as a blog author.

Now go to http://theglobalschool.net/science and sign in as [removed login information]. Now visit that blog again. I bet “teststudent” is added as a blog author.

[Robkk]

It is weird that when I check the teststudents blog in the dashboard, I can see users listed as Participant as their site role, while it should be Subscriber.

The WordPress backend menu is all off when I hover over menu items. I do not know what is causing that. Also some bbPress tools in the Tools section, seem to have their own menu items also, which I do not know why.

There also seems to be forums on some blogs with the same content too??

This is one for example.

http://theglobalschool.net/science/tilliemcr/forums/topic/hello-world/

You can probably find more by visiting the site, and adding /forums at the end of the url.

If you haven’t already try some troubleshooting to see what is causing all of this.

Troubleshooting