Archie

Hopefully the last “one more thing” … users who are experiencing this problem also report that all of a sudden they cannot create a new topic in the forum (that they have access to). It says something like “Forbidden” (but some of them can reply to existing posts).

One more thing … users are (as always) not very helpful when reporting their isses (i.e. “It doesn’t work”). From the reports that I’m getting it seems to me that they can access a forum via a direct link to it, for example by clicking on it in the notification email (from bbp Style Pack), but that the issue is accessing the root forums page from my main menu.

I’d like to add to that part ‘someone with more expertise than me should investigate’ ?? I’ve been playing around with and evaluating Simple Membership for a bit and I feel confident that I have enough user-side expertise to offer some helpful insights. I am in no way shape or form connected with plugin authors, except for being very thankful that they are providing a good and effective product for libre/free.

What you are talking about is normal behavior (if I had more time I could probably find it described in the docs, writing from memory here). I deleted those pages straight away and made my own. I don’t remember having any problems with making those pages ‘Draft’ (it may be helpful if you share further what you mean there, maybe there is something else going on). In the settings you can define which page you want to use for logging in, registering, etc. The (optional) step of offering people to join (from memory it’s the ‘Join Us’ page) I’m not even using. If you dig through the docs you will find that you can override some of the forms by creating a ‘simple-membership’ folder in your theme folder. On my site I have even managed to have two registration pages: one to simply say that I’m currently overloaded and not accepting new registrations, and he other (‘secret’) one to give to friends and valued clients.

You have to have those pages, otherwise your users won’t be able to register, log in, change their profile, or reset their password. In the settings there is also an option to recreate all those pages if you’ve played around with them and want a fresh start. I have not noticed the plugin adding anything to my site that wasn’t clearly defined and expected. I have even taken a sneak peak into the database. Code is all open source so it’s very clear what it does.

I happy to answer any and all questions about what I’ve written and also share more of my very positive experiences with the plugin.

And I forgot to add … everything is free and libre, no premium features and upselling ??

Yes it works, thank you very much!