Private Forums - How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0

RE: Private Forums

Timbo — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:42:54 +0000

@robert - Ah. I see. Thank you. 😀

RE: Private Forums

Robert — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:03:22 +0000

@timbo,

All works fine. The forums access control is designed to control access to forums and that works fine. If you want to hide the entire forum page then you should use WordPress page level access controlling solutions like these: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/Restrict+User+Access/ . wpForo works inside the page content it doesn't have control over page level. Don't forget if you hide the full forum page the forum login/register pages will be hidden as well.

RE: Private Forums

Timbo — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:07:02 +0000

Hi -

I am pretty sure that I have followed the setup described in your "How to set up a private forum" link. However, even when I am not signed in, so therefore should not have access, I can see the page.

https://www.rcta.org.uk/sc-board/

Are you able to have a look and advise me what I have done wrong, please?

RE: Private Forums

Sofy — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:34:22 +0000

Hi @timbo

Here are the best resources to help you configure your forum settings the way you like:

https://gvectors.com/how-to-set-up-private-forum/
https://wpforo.com/community/faq/wordpress-user-roles-wpforo-usergroups-and-forum-accesses/

Private Forums

Timbo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:00:13 +0000

I want to set up two private forums on my website. One just for committee members and one for all association members. But I can't work out how to restrict access. Would appreciate an idiots guide, please!