How to subscribe existing wp users to a newly created forum? Currently new users are auto-subscribed to existing forums, but there does not seem to be a way to subscribe existing wp users to a new forum. Forums on our site are viewable via log-in only. https://weightinclusivemedicine.org/forums/

Is there an easy way to do it through wp database?
Using 2.6.11 bbpress WordPress 6.7.1

[@robin-w Moderator 4 days, 10 hours ago]

forum subscribed users are held in post_meta database for the forum

so if the forum is ID 2927, then in post_meta you would have an entry for each subscribed user eg

`

post_id		meta_key			Meta_value
2927		_bbp_subscription 	1371
2927 		_bbp_subscription 	1372

would mean that user_ID’s 1371 and 1372 are subscribed to forum 2927

[@wpneedsupport Participant 3 days, 3 hours ago]

Thank you so much. I was able to locate. A few follow up questions:
– Is there a way to determine which forum the post id corresponds with? I see more unique post_id’s than I have forums (only 2).
– What would the command be to add users to each forum ID? Is there a way to optimize for 100+ users?
– Do you know where in the database bbpprivategroups data is stored?

[@robin-w Moderator 2 days, 16 hours ago]

users can subscribe to forums and topics, both work the same way. The post ID is either a forum or topic.

Not suer what you mean by command – if sql then I cannot help you. If php then you would use get_users and loop through that and use

bbp_add_user_subscription( $user_id, $forum_id )

private groups – the code simply checks matches. Users have a user_meta entry of ‘private_group’ and forums have a post_meta of ‘_private_group’ the general settings are stored in the options table