I’m planning to integrate BBPress to my WordPress site and I was informed that it already allows single login integration.

Does it also allow single registration? I mean, when a user registers on my WP site, does he automatically have access to bbpress? How about when a user registers on the bbpress forum, does that user get a WP user account as well?

If not, is there already a way to do this and can someone point me to the right resource?

Thanks!

[@mordauk Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

There is an option in Settings > Forums to control which user types have access to post in the bbPress forums.

When a user is created in bbPress by registering, they are always added to WordPress.

[@midian42 Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

I can’t see that setting anywhere. I would like to make it so only forum registrants can use the forum, not all users on my website. I’m sure I’m probably just missing it but I’m still missing it. Can you tell me exactly where it would be?

[@mordauk Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

See the attached image. It’s the Global Access setting you want to adjust.

[@midian42 Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

Fantastic! Do you happen to know how I can make it so only forum registrants can view posts? Or is that not possible?

Thanks so much for your help. I’ve been spinning in circles for 2 hours so you’ve been a Godsend!

[@mordauk Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

That is not possible out of the box, only with custom modifications.

[@midian42 Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

one last q and i promise i wont bug you anymore. Do you know if making it a private forum will at least provide some amount of privacy or will it make the forum not function properly? sorry for the typos, on my phone now.

[@mordauk Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

Sorry, I definitely told you wrong before.

Setting a forum to private will make it so only logged-in users can view it. Logged-out users will get a 404 error.

You can also adjust the permissions that any individual user has for the forums by going to the user’s profile editor in the admin, as shown in the screenshot below:

[@midian42 Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

perfect! thank you so much! will get on it when i get back home. thx again!

[@daveshine Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

What Pippin wrote is not entirely true:
the screenshot above is from the current development version 2.2-bleeding!

In current public release v2.1.2 this is NOT possible yet.

Hope that helps, Dave 🙂

[@midian42 Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

OMG Thank you! I was just about to come on here and say I don’t have that anywhere! Lol! So right now I can’t separate site registrants from forum registrants, correct?

[@mordauk Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

Ah, yes, sorry, Dave is right. I run my local development site on the bleeding edge version and sometimes forget things there are not available to everyone yet 🙂

[@midian42 Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

No worries. At least I know I can stop scouring the site over and over looking for something that isn’t there. 😉

[@matthewbotti Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

I noticed in Pippin’s first screenshot that there was an option to uncheck whether topics allow tags – does this mean that the next version will allow us to finally get rid of the “Tags” box when posting topics? I’ve been racking my brain on trying to figure out how to get rid of tags but if the option comes available in the next version I’ll likely just wait until then, unless there’s a way to do it now that I’m not aware of.

[@mordauk Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

Yes, the option to disable Topic Tags removes the tags meta box.