Automatically create a new private forum for a new user

[rdpaul]

Hi,

I have a digital marketing website where we need to provide a dedicated private forum for each client. This forum will not be visible to any other user. On user signup a new forum should be created and the new user should be subscribed to this forum. This new forum should be visible when the user visits a, say, “My Account” page. Is this possible with your plugin? If yes, please indicate the code that I need to put into the user registration hook to achieve this. Also, if the site has a large number of users (say 500+) will it be very inefficient and performance impacting to create a new forum for each user? Thanks in advance for your reply.

[Robin W]

thanks for your post.

At the moment this is not possible.

I have plans to write a ‘private support forum’ option to this plugin.

This would have a forum where a user would request help by starting a topic, and moderators and admins could respond, but the user would only see their own topics (and all replies to that topic).

Therefore you would have a single forum (you could have more!) but it would look like an individual forum to the user.

Using ‘assign groups to roles’ would then automatically join new users to this forum

This is a way down my list of things to do, and is competing with paid website work.

If you would like to discuss helping me to develop this as a part funded project, then contact me via my website

http://www.rewweb.co.uk

[rdpaul]

Hi,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

After writing to you earlier I looked at all the posts in the support forum and came across the following one which seemed relevant to my situation.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-forum-created-user-and-wp-admin-can-access-that-forum/

What I gathered is that in the user_register action I use the bbPress API to create a new forum and then add meta keys of “_private_group” and “private_group” to the postmeta and usermeta tables respectively, with a common unique value generated from the, say, userid, which would subscribe only that user to the new forum.

Would this not suffice for my use scenario?

Thanks again in advance for your reply.

[Robin W]

If that works for you, then yes it should do it

[rdpaul]

Great. Will give it a shot and let you know. Thanks for the time and effort you put into this.