Need Suggestions for Member-Only Online Forum Theme
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Hello,
I’ve done a fair amount of WordPress work, but I’ve never set up a “membership only” forum.
This is for a niche business and will probably have about 100 participants, max.
People must register and be approved before gaining access; there is no membership fee.
So, I need recommendations for:
A clean WordPress theme suitable for hosting a forum
A WordPress forum plugin with membership add-onThanks very much for any suggestions you can provide.
SR
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Blogger installed plugins and third party or custom themes cannot be used on WordPress.COM hosted sites unless you have a Business Plan.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/business-plan/We have 4 different plans: free, personal, premium and business. All hosting is free regardless of which plan you choose. You can view all WordPress.com plan features here https://wordpress.com/pricing/
All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
Blogger installed plugins
Uploading Custom Themes or Third Party Themes
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/If you do not wish to purchase a Business plan see also: moving to self-hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com
Note the wordpress.ORG plugins support forum is here https://wordpress.org/plugins/
You can read about the differences here https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/You can read about the differences between wordpress.com hosted sites and wordpress.org sites here https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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NOTE: If you do not wish to purchase a Business plan see also: moving to self-hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com
A clean WordPress theme suitable for hosting a forum
See here:
https://wordpress.com/theme/p2
https://wordpress.com/theme/p2-breatheHere at wordpress.COM the closest you can come to that is to build a Membership website: https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/build-a-membership-website-tutorial/
If you wish to make some people official users of your WordPress.COM site with limited user roles read on.
What I post below applies only to sites hosted by wordpress.COM.
You cannot password protect a whole wordpress.COM site. You can password protect posts and/ or pages on a site.
You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the site, to change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings. If you select option 1 then the blog will be a public one, available to all with internet access to read.
If you wish to add official users see these support docs:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-site -
@impactva, are you planning on hosting here at WordPress.com on the Business plan, or are you planning on self-hosting the site? I see two other self-hosted sites on your account connected via Jetpack.
The bbPress plugin is specifically designed for WordPress. You can set things up so that those that register are held for approval. Although this plugin is designed to work well with all typical themes, there is no guarantee that it will work with all of them. You might want to do a search for bbPress themes. I see one link that comes up in that search for the best in 2018.
Fixed the formatting @timethief
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