How to Build a Private bbPress Forum and Membership Site in 3 Minutes?

How to Quickly Set up Your Private bbPress Forum with Membership Functions in 3 Minutes?

By default, once installed and activated bbPress membership plugin, bbPress membership will turn your bbpress / wordpress site into a private bbpress forum and wordpress membership site, that means only registered members can open wordpress posts and bbpress forum topics / replies in your bbPress site, of course, the home page is opened to guest-users 🙂

1: If you don’t have our bbPress Membership plugin installed on your bbPress site, please login your buyer account in bbPress Membership Plugin site first, if you have installed bbPress Members Only plugin on your site, please jump to step #10 directly 🙂

2: Download bbPress Membership Plugin via “My account” menu

3: Login admin area in your bbPress site

4: Click “Plugins” menu item

5: If you installed bbPress Members Only free plugin or other version of our bbPress Members Only plugin, please deactivated old bbPress Members Only version

6: Delete the old bbPress Members Only plugin

7: In “Plugins” menu item, click add new at the top of the plugins panel

8: Upload the bbPress membership plugin zip file which you downloaded from our bbpress memebrship plugin shop page

9: Activate latest version of bbPress membership plugin

10: You will find bbPress members only menu, it looks like this:

bbpress membership plugin menu items

11: Please click “bbPress members only” menu item, you will open “bbPress Members Only Setting” panel, it looks like this:

bbpress membership plugin opened pages panel

12: In “Register Page URL” input box, please enter your login / register page or your landing page for guest users, for example    https://bbp.design/wp-login.php

13:  In the “opened page urls” input box,  please enter your site URL, for example, https://bbp.design

14: Please click “submit” button

15: Then please click “Optional Settings” sub menu item

16:  You will open “bbPress Members Only Optional Settings” panel, it looks like this:

bbPress Members Only Optional Settings panel

17: Please checked the option “only protect my bbpress pages” option — if you hope your wordpress posts opened to all guest users

18: click “submit” button

Then a private bbpress forum was set up.

Please also check more details at bbPress membership plugin document 🙂