okay, lets start over then.  Please explain your problem in Simple Press terms.   I am not sure how we are supposed to provide help if we do not understand the problem.

I have tried using common WordPress, WishList, and Simple Press terms to explain my attempt at understanding your issue.  If you cannot confirm, deny or correct that lack of understanding, I am not sure how I can ‘fix’ what is not known.  Our membership policy says nothing about going into your site and doing your work for you.  If we understand the issue, absolutely we can do that in certain cases.

I do recall now the issue about logging in and can check on that and see if any more light is shed on your local issue. But it would have been nice to know thats what the credentials were for since we were talking about memberships most recently in this thread.

your login issue seems to be related to SSL (ie https)…  you are running the main site over SSL but the forum is not doing SSL… hence you have two different logins…

How are you accomplishing the SSL for the site? Are you following the WP standard?  that is with config options in your wp-config.php…  please read this for more:  http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL

I am guessing you may not have the two DEFINES for forcing SSL defined…

I also replied to your PM regarding that account and what I cannot do with it due to limited account..

Now that gives me something to work with, thank you. I did read it and add the define for admin but it does not help, however since it is tied to SSL, I have contacted my hosting co to help me out with it and they are looking into it.

on the login, I sent the test user name just so you would see what I was trying to explain about not working, I was not hoping to have you go in and fix my stuff (even though it would have been the best solution)…I will try to do it following your instructions and maybe map it all out one more time from scratch and I get stuck i will drop you a line and we can see what then.

Thank you.

Let us know how you get on with your hosting query.

I am getting somewhere now, in the PM you sent me I rechecked everything and found that it seems I have had all mapped our correctly. At the end of the msg you mention moving peeps but from one usergroup to the other. This is where I am still not clear because I want them to stay part of the same SP usergroup: members I just want them to now to see posts of those who entered through a diff WL level.

Question: if two people join forumX but one enters through WL level1 and one through WL level2, they both have same wp roles, both belong to the same SP usergroup, they will still not see each others posts because they entered through diff levels on WL  (if WL specifies they have access to one or the other)? And then they only see posts from other folks mapped out the same way who are on the same level of WL as them – even though in reality they are all part of the same forum created on SP?

I don’t really follow you. WishList has no bearing on SP User Groups and SP Permissions which is what you need to ‘marry’ for each forum to control access.

join a forum???  sorry, I cannot say it enough…  one does not join a forum…  they can get membership in a usergroup…  and then YOU can assign a usergroup with a permission set to a forum…   that is a key point I have been trying to make…

as detailed in that codex article on memberships, you need a distinct wp role for each wishlist level… otherwise you cannot give automatically give them unique sp usergroup memberships…  do you have a distinct wp role for each wishlist level?

so if this users have different wishlist levels, but the same wp role, then they will be in the same sp usergroup and will have the same permissions on all forums…  if you want wishlist level1 and wishlist level2 to have different accesses to forums, then they must be in different usergroups…  for auto assignment to those usergroups, they must have different wp roles…  you can also adjust the users membershipsin sp usergroups manually…

so lets start with some questions and clarification…

do you want level1 and level2 to have the same access to forums?  if not, do the wishlist levels get mapped to different wp roles?

I want peeps to join forum1 which is free some other peeps to decide to pay to join forum2. Forum1 will be on general questions, forum2 will be on specific products support.

So they need to be in separate user groups. That is how it works. I think we have said this already…

but arent user groups:guest, member, moderator and admin? if so, and I want both to have member access, but to see different topics..do I still need two different user groups and then if so, what would I chose them to be? Or do I need members1 usergroup for forum1 and members2 usergroup for forum2…

I have to say it again… users do NOT join forums…  users can gain membership in a usergroup…

guests, members, moderators ARE usergroups, but admin is NOT…  If you want different usergroups to have different permissions/access on forums, then yes, you would want multiple usergroups…  sounds like you are catching on…

so if I understand…

You should have a wishlist level of level_1 and level_2…  in the wishlist settings, for the membership levels, you should map them to different wp roles, lets call them subscriber_1 and subscriber_2…

In the SP admin, you should have a members_1 and members_2 usergroup…  on forum – options – member settings, you should map the subscriber_1 wp role to the sp usergroup members_1 and map the subscriber_2 wp role to the sp usergroup members_2…

then in the sp admin, for each forum (lets say you have forum_1 and forum_2), marry up the permissions…  so assign usergroup members_1 with a permission set (ie standard access) to forum_1…  and assign usergroup members_2 with a permission set (ie standard access) to forum_2…

now members who register to wishlist level_1 will have access to forum_1 with standard access… and members who register to wishlist level_2 will have access to forum_2 with standard access…  you can of course make the permission set whatever you want…

and if you also want wishlist members_1 to be able to access forum_2, you can add that permission set by editing forum_2 also…

now that is making sense..thank you

okay, just what the codex and I have been saying!   just had to get to common language/understanding…