Hi I hope you are having a great weekend! I am using e-member and I would like to also add a support forum for the members of my elite membership.
Is there any way to integrate the e-members to a forum so automatically I can know who is asking that question?
Thanks
You can use the simple press forum which allows you to embed the forum in one of your pages. You can then use eMember to control access to that page. This way you can make it so anyone who is logged in can view the forum.
You can also use the BBPress forum which has WordPress integration. If you use eMember with WordPress integration too then this can be a viable solution. Basically you don't let anyone register from the normal registration page of BBPress also make it so only logged in users and view the forum posts. Once a visitor makes a payment for membership using eMember, a wordpress account will be created for the visitor. He/she can then use that login details to log into the forum and view the content.
Hi, You can use the "WordPress User Integration" feature in eMember which basically makes it so when a member registers on eMember it creates a WordPress user with a predefined "Role". This way it shares the same login details and mechanism.
This allows you to use the eMember plugin with any plugin that uses the WordPress user database to control access as it will have the same login details.
Hi Ivy, Is this integration for the Simple Forum? or for BB Press? Which one would you recommend more?
Thanks for your help.
Hi, You can use either one. With BB Press you will have to do the integration mentioned above by Amin. With Simple Forum this will be easier as it is a plugin that just needs to be installed and configured.
Problem with this is that once the account becomes expired or inactive, they still have access to the forums that are supposed to be for members only. This is because they can still log in using a wordpress login, and therefore can just bypass emember since its now the forum interacting with WP... Emember is only the initial "middleman" plugin.
When the account expires it should deactivate/block the WordPress user too. If this is not happening let me know and I will investigate it.
Hi,
I saw your advice above "Basically you don't let anyone register from the normal registration page of BBPress also make it so only logged in users and view the forum posts", and was wondering how exactly you make it so that only logged in users can view BBPress forum posts?
I have just installed BBPress 1.0.3 and I can't find an option for making forums private. Is that achieved with a plugin?
Thanks,
Sebastian
I don't know if BBPress by default gives you the ability to lock down forum posts for particular users. A plugin similar to this one might help:
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