Plug in for private forum?

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  zznutall · Member · Nov 8, 2014 at 5:36 pm

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  Looking for a forum for my site.

  The forum should be behind a log-in and it should be ‘private’.

  By private I mean that a User should be able to log in and start threads but only said User and my staff should be able to view/read/write into this User’s threads. Thus each user has a private forum that nobody else can access other than he/she and my staff. Any ideas how to set this up?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 8, 2014 at 5:43 pm

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  There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on WordPress.COM blogs. There is no upgrade you can purchase here that provides FTP access and the ability to install plugins. See here for a full comparison WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  For your WordPress.COM blog you have three free workaround forum options: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/04/23/wordpress-com-forum-options/
  One approach is to register a forum on the internet and then create a custom menu in your blog and include a custom link to the forum in it.
  a custom link to the forum in it.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

  The only chat widget we can use on WordPress.com hosted blogs is found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/tlk-io-widget/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 8, 2014 at 5:44 pm

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  There is no limitation on the total number of participants in private blogs. 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. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
  See here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  As noted above they need accounts but do not need to register blogs. They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.

  Note that users who create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

  The limit is 10 invitations at any point in time. It’s a spammer prevention limit. So simply wait and then send out 10 more.

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  zznutall · Member · Nov 8, 2014 at 6:01 pm

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  Thanks for the help I will check out these links.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 10:16 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)