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Mr Papa said

but lets say you just want to do it the brute force way...

so have any user user that registers become a wp subscriber...  map that subscriber role in simple press over to a user group called pending...   assign user group pending with a permission set of no access to every forum on your site...  those self registered users will have absolutely no access to your forum... 

That makes sense.  However, how to do this is not clear to me (specifically what options to choose to "map that subscriber role in simple press over to a user group called pending.").

However, after much trial and error with various membership plug-ins, I think I have found a solution that works.  I am in the process of checking and will ask again if this does not work.

I am also going to read back through this thread to try to find the plug-ins that I need.  The links I visited yesterday for the plug-ins just took me to long descriptions with downloads hard to find. I will be back if I can't find them.

Thanks,

Tina

Ike said

Ref post #6

It's hard to recommend which plugins you would find most useful as it's different for everyone and as Andy has pointed out, you haven't really given us an idea of what you want to be able to do / control. Things like how many users you have / expect to have, and what you are using your forum for really dictate what plugins you will find most useful, although a few basic plugins that might help you get started are:

'Admin Bar - Post Control' - Invaluable really - Only displaying to admins it adds a control to the top of the forum itself which allows you to monitor every new post made on the forum. When the admin bar is open you can view posts without having to visit threads. There are a few controls to reply, mark as read, delete etc.. Also the admin bar offers Akismet support (spam plugin) if you run that on your WP site. More info.

'User Warnings and Suspensions' - This plugin is really useful if you want a little more control over undesirable users / posts. More info.

'Forum Post Captcha' - Really useful spam prevention plugin, adds a drag and drop captcha which can't really be beaten! You can add it to the registration page to, to deal with spam signups. More info.

'Report Post to Admins' - Again really if you like the idea of having a little more control over what goes on, this plugin will allow users to report posts directly to you. More info.

'Subscriptions - Topic and Forum' - Pretty useful for most forums.. Simply allows users to subscribe to topics or entire forums and receive email updates upon replies. You can customise this plugin through the WP admin - see Forum > Components > Subscriptions. More Info.

'Preview Forum Posts' - Another invaluable one, adds a 'Preview' button when making posts. Unless it's just a quick reply most people like to preview their posts before they submit.

'Private Messaging' - Does what it says basically! Pretty useful for people to get in contact with you as an admin if you think that would be something you'd find useful, if not other members have the option to privately talk to each other. You can restrict the use of the PM system through permissions, and also through the Private Messaging tab that will appear in your WP forum page once the plugin has been activated. More info.

There are others that are incredibly useful, I've just tried to pick out the ones that will help you keep the forum clean / up to date / spam free.

Hope this helps!

Okay, so here we go again.  I have infrequently uploaded plug-ins.  Usually I use plug-ins from the WP editor.

So, I downloaded some plug-ins, then I extracted from zipped file, which leads me to many other files.  I tried uploading the zipped file (which failed), then, after extracting the zipped file on my computer, I tried uploading one of the many interior files, including the one with the word "install" included (which failed).  Would you please explain how I upload the plug-ins?  The first one I tried was the admin bar, which is the one that failed via multiple attempts.

Thank you.