The site I am developing needs two different kinds of login. The first is to the main blog pages which I want to keep private and am using WP-members which uses the regular wordpress login. For this part the people need to be approved by the administrator. The second is I have a forum-Mingleforum - which also uses the regular wordpress login. I need that the people who sign up for the forum do not have any access to the rest of the private pages, they also wouldn’t need to be approved.
The only solution I have come up with is two different wordpress sites, that look the same so on the user end no one would know the difference. To me this solution seems clunky any other ideas?
I have already looked at all of Mingle Forum videos and they use the regular Wordpress login so the question is it possible to split the wordpress login into two groups. One which has access to the whole site and the other which only has access to the forum. The only other idea I have is to have the forum users to only sign in as guests but that is awkward as it is difficult to follow who says what.
Well, WordPress doesn’t do anything special, so as long as you know php and mysql you can do that. However, I cannot tell what would happen if a database modification was done upon a WP update.
I would take the WP-Members plugin and see how it deals with roles and capabilities, then see how mingleforum handles them. Maybe you can tweak those to do it.
I don’t know enough about PHP to do that. I’ve been trying a plugin called role scoper but I feel like I’m banging my head against wall. I’m obviously not getting something.
