[blessedtoes]

Hi all-
I am pretty new to WP and am sorting through many things, learning a lot.
I’ve built a site in WP using bbPress “inside” the OptimizePress 2 theme (if that’s the right language). I am trying to figure out how to make entering a username and email address mandatory for my forums, and how to link that email field to MailChimp.
I’ve done some searching in the forum and online and can’t find anything – basic or otherwise – to help walk me through this. Either simple instructions or sending me towards a particular tutorial would be awesome.
Thanks in advance,
Matthew

[Robin W]

I am trying to figure out how to make entering a username and email address mandatory for my forums

Just unclick anonymous posting in dashboard>settings>forums

[blessedtoes]

Thanks, Robin. That was wonderfully easy. DO you have suggestions about where I could read / learn about how the emails are managed? I assume there’s some internal database within bbPress but would like to see if I can connect it to MailChimp. Thanks again.

[Robin W]

it uses the wordpress user database to store email addresses, and will mail to the email address of the wordpress user as you set them up.

Whilst a bit clunky, you could use

https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-users-to-csv/

to export the email addresses to a csv, and import them from there to mailchimp maybe via a macro.

depends on how many users you have and how often you’re emailing.

[blessedtoes]

Thanks very much, Robin – you’re my hero!
Matthew

[Robin W]

you’re very welcome

[Robin W]

Just by chance found a mailchimp plugin, no idea if it will help you, but :

https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp/

probably worth a look !

[blessedtoes]

Thanks again, Robin.