For best results, use our support forum at http://www.bracketpress.com — also there is a video on the home page that will answer a lot of your questions.
Additionally, Fred did a great job of writing up a tutorial on setting BracketPress up. Check it out at http://www.fredmarion.com/how-to-use-bracketpress-for-wordpress-for-free/
The PRO data feed is available on http://www.bracketpress.com
okay… last question. Can web visitors register themselves to participate or do I have to “Add New user.”
If you have registration enabled on your site, then new users can create accounts on their own. They can do so through any means you want. A third party plugin, Gravity Forms, etc… or even through the regular WordPress user registration system.
We created a plugin that complements BracketPress that you’d probably want to look into.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/bracketpress-login-and-registration-widget/
I downloaded both the “free” and registration widget. I plan to move to PRO once I feel comfortable that I can pull this off.
Is there anyway to get the registration widget to appear on another page besides the home page?
http://d787593.u55.profitability.net/index.php
I’ve installed BP in a test environment but you can see the registration at above.
Also, when I view a bracket 3/4ths of it is getting cut off… I believe by the templated page layout… anything I can do to correct?
You can place the widget anywhere that you have a widget area defined. That would depend on your theme though. Alternatively, you might try using a plugin like http://wordpress.org/plugins/widgets-on-pages/ that lets you put widgets into pages. I have no experience with it though, so I can’t offer any help.
Be sure and watch the video at http://www.bracketpress.com — I address the layout issue in the video. There is a setting you can change to tell it what page layout to use. Most themes have a “full width” page, that is what you will need to use.
If your theme doesn’t support a full width, you might consider installing BracketPress on a subdomain and running it with Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven as the theme.
-Scott
