bbPress was built by the creators of WordPress and provides forum functionality for your WordPress site. Using the bbPress extension, you'll be able to protect bbPress forums based on a member's access rights in MemberMouse. In order to use the bbPress extension plugin both bbPress and MemberMouse must be installed and activated.
Follow the steps below to use the bbPress extension:
- Download, install and activate the bbPress extension plugin.
Make sure the bbPress plugin is activated and click on the Forums menu.
- Create a new forum or click on an existing forum that you want protected.
On right side of the page, locate the MM Forum Protection module.
Check the box to enable protection on this forum.
Under Grant Access to Membership Levels, select the membership level(s) you want to be able to access this forum. You can select multiple membership levels by using
ctrl + click
on a PC and(Command key) + click
on a Mac.Under Grant Access to Bundles, select the bundle(s) you want to be able to access this forum. You can select multiple bundles by using
ctrl + click
on a PC and(Command key) + click
on a Mac.Next, you can specify a URL to redirect unauthorized users to if they attempt to access this forum. Check the Redirect unauthorized users box and enter in a URL.
Click the button to save your settings.
Now that you've protected this forum, when unauthorized users visit the forum index page they'll see a icon next to the forums they don't have access to and if they attempt to view protected forums they'll be redirected to the URL configured in the forum protection settings.