Integration with a WordPress Forum

[Garland Coulson]

I just purchased WP eMember and WP Affiliate Platform for an upcoming online course web site.

I would like to add a forum to the web site so students can ask questions. Will eMember integrate with any WordPress forums? If so, which ones have you found worked well with it? I notice you are using bbPress here. Is this integrated with eMember?

Thanks.

[amin007]

Any Forum Software that can be integrated with WordPress users database (works based on the Role setting of the WordPress users) will work with eMember. This post will explain more:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/using-emember-with-another-plugin-that-uses-the-wordpress-user-roles-350

A lot of people have been using SimplePress forum plugin for WordPress which works fine with eMember. BBPress also have an option to be integrated with WordPress users database.

[bentley74]

So would I need to check off the “create WordPress user account” box in order for a new member to automatically become a member of the SimplePress forum inside my member’s area?

[admin]

Your settings need to look exactly like the screenshot in this documentation:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/using-emember-with-another-plugin-that-uses-the-wordpress-user-roles-350

[bentley74]

Yep all three of those boxes are checked off. Should I now be able to access the member’s area just by being logged in to WordPress? Will try again – but almost positive it still wasn’t working

[bentley74]

Whoops – got this one mixed up with another thread I added to.

It IS working for users – ie when they visit forum they are logged in. But what it DOESN’T do is allow me as admin to use the forum.

[admin]

This post has the answer to your other question:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/emember-with-simplepress

[bentley74]

Ok – figured out a work-around by accident. Seems weird to me, but when I am logged into WordPress and then log in to my membership (with a test account), the eMember user becomes ME (not the test user) and I can post on the forum and do forum admin stuff.

Interesting!

B

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