Hi Giles, I’m definitely no expert, in fact I’m barely competent but through a method of trial and error here is what I eventually did:
For user type I just used the Buddypress user account type (BUAT) free plugin. You can get more options with the paid version but for now I have stuck with the lite version.
For the forum, I never managed to get mingle to work, although it is much pretty, somehow or other I managed to configure a forum that nobody could post in! So for bbpress forum this is what I did:
Go to Forums > new forum
Choose whether you are creating a forum or a category. This is where bbpress is confusing.
Category is actually your forum title and
forum is actually your topic.
Categories are only used to organise your topics. Forums can only contain sub-topics to your category but can also be the parent or child of other forum topics.
So for example: category = forum = holiday destinations;
forum = topics = Europe (parent) or Italy (child).
I found it easier to do all the categories first then go back and add the forums
3. Give your category or forum a title
4. On the right hand side: Choose whether it is public, hidden or private; choose hierarchical structure (e.g whether it is a child of a category; choose order you would like it to appear in;
5. Adjust the default slug if you want to e.g the name that appears after your domain.com/
6. Press publish
To make it look prettier I put <strong>insert your own title here</strong> in header title because I couldn’t work out to access bold button in the title text. I’m sure that isn’t right (maybe someone could enlighten us) but it does work!
Hope this works for you! My site is StudentSurveyor.com if you want to take a look.
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