first, lets clear up the cache… if you are serving a cached page to someone who cannot see the forum, but the cache is from someone who could, they would get the wrong page…
hi
good morning .. cache done … thank you for your help …
all the members are seeing the forum except the one person/member that is not .. she shows under the forum but when she clicks on forum link the forum shows she doesn’t have permission or forum doesn’t exist ..
you said that user groups have no members … if the user groups have “no members”, then why is everyone seeing the forums?? i have user groups set and students belong to the “group”
i spent most of last night going over the codex and checking setting … the only thing i saw was to add members by names to forums .. that would be a lot of work ..
also looking through codex there are no descriptions of the settings under permissions (although there are little icons with minimal info next to the setting) and some of the topics in the codex are “still being written”
i was trying to find some way to connect the expiration date of the membership plug in to the forum and do not see a way .. can you direct me to the link that will give me the directions??
sorry again to be a pain but i am really trying to learn and understand
There are several questions here but I will try and answer the basic one.
I know nothing about the membership plugin you are using and neither does Simple:Press. This is because all Simple:Press can actually act upon is the underlying WordPress core system. And the underlying WordPress core system defines ‘roles’ that different users can belong to. And Simple:Press DOES understand WordPress ‘roles’.
On the forum admin > user groups > Map Users to User Groups admin panel you can set new users signing up into different WordPress ‘roles’ to be automatically mapped to a Simple:Press user group. In this way there is no need for any manual intervention or manual assignments.
I believe some membership plugins will also manage WordPress roles although don’t ask me which ones. If yours does this then that would be the way to arrange things. You map your membership ‘levels’ to a WordPress role which is in turn mapped to a Simple:Press User Group. And like Simple:Press User groups – you can create new WordPress ‘roles’ to suit your needs.
Steve (Mr Papa) claimed that there appeared to be no users in any of your SP user groups. This is worrying because the only way that Simple:Press knows about a new registrant to the website is when WordPress tells it so. It does this by means of what you could visualise as an internal messaging system. A new user registers, WordPress broadcasts a ‘message’ so that any interested plugin knows about the new user and can take any actions needed – like assigning them into a User Group. However we have encountered plugins that do not abide by the WordPress protocols which would mean that the ‘broadcast’ was never made. I hope that this is not the case with the membership plugin you are using but – as stated – I am personally unfamiliar with it.
FInally – one reason for everyone ‘seeing’ forums even though they are not supposed to and if that user is NOT in any User Group – would be that they get treated as a guest and if you have allowed the default Guest User Group assigned viewing permissions for each forum this would let them see it.
hi
thanks so much for the info .. what i am doing is working except for these 2 students .. i am not sure what is going on .. i have tried everything but i am starting to think it is a magic members plug in issue and not a forum issue .. i have contacted them for help .. i will let you know the out come ..
thanks so much
debby
please do… we have folks who have used magic members with simple press so unless its a recent change… unfortunately, I am on travel and will not be able to re-engage on this until the weekend…
if its just two members, you can manually add them to the desired usergroup…
hope so! 
if you dont hear back by end of week, please tweak us to make sure it didnt get lost during the trip…