Quote from qualmy91 on August 14, 2020, 4:04 am

Hey @timmy321,

I’m also using UM on a client website and Asgaros Forum works fine with UM. Of course it depends on your expectations.

Instead of the manual way to integrate UM it’s much easier to use my Plugin Toolbox for Asgaros Forum for changing the URLs. You will also get the possibility to get an activity tab in the UM Profile like in the Asgaros Forum Profile.

Just let me know if you need help or more features for the integration.

Quote from timmy321 on August 14, 2020, 1:41 pm

Hi again Dominik,

 

In terms of my expectations – I would like to be able to:

1. Have an option to link to and consent to terms & conditions upon completing a registration form (just a tickbox at the bottom with a hyperlink to the T &C’s). I’ve tried the front end add on for Asgaros, which awesome and user friendly, but I couldn’t figure out how to insert a checkbox for T&C’s. I would also like to add extra registration fields in addition to just username and email (like age, gender, location etc.) which I also couldn’t figure out how to do with the front end plugin.
2. Incorporate a social register/login option.

 

I couldn’t find a way of achieving the above without a membership plugin and UM is the only plugin that I found that can do the above (albeit by purchasing some add on’s), but it’s led me down a few rabbit holes..

 

As there are two different profiles (one for Asgaros, one for UM) – what happened was by logging into to the Asgaros Forum, the user would be redirected to the UM profile (which didn’t appear to mirror the Asgaros profile). There was also no link to the Forum on the UM profile (like in the image I’ve attached). What made things more challenging was when the user would try and ‘edit details’ in their Asgaros profile it would just redirect them to the homepage (neither Asgaros or UM edit profiles). I tried altering redirects, but this kept crashing my site. Which is why I wondered if there was:

 

A way to merge the two profiles as to avoid the confusion?

or

A way to achieve 1 and 2, just using the Asgaros forum?

 

Big thanks for all the help so far Dominik,

 

Timmy

Quote from qualmy91 on August 15, 2020, 5:42 am

Hey @timmy321,

I would also advice you to use UM, Asgaros Forum and Toolbox for Asgaros Forum.

So you can set up everything with UM like you need your profile or registration process.

With Toolbox for Asgaros Forum you can simply edit the links that are used at Asgaros Forum. My Plugin also adds an activity tab to the UM Profile like in the attached image.

Quote from timmy321 on August 15, 2020, 7:10 am

Many thanks for your reply!

 

I’ve setup the custom URL’s as suggested in the plugin, however after clicking login on the forum it just redirects me to the actual wordpress standard login (not the UM form). Then after logging in as the user it redirects them to the forum (but not logged in).

 

I’ve attached a screenshot of the links I’ve placed and I think I’ve go them right? (minus a bracket on edit profile url which i’ve changed now 🙂 )

 

Any suggestions Dominik?

Quote from timmy321 on August 15, 2020, 7:32 am

Hmm, the links work now 🙂

What is confusing me is that once logged in, when viewing the Forum the options ‘log in’ and ‘register’ are still there (which I assumed meant the user was not logged in – as these usually show the log out options if logged in).

When the user clicks on a post however, the header bar changes to the normal view with ‘log out’ option.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Many thanks!

Timmy

Quote from qualmy91 on August 15, 2020, 9:30 am

Do you use any caching plugins? Or is the site directly cached by your webserver?

Quote from timmy321 on August 15, 2020, 11:09 am

I use WP Fastest Cache and WP Rest Cache. I’ve had a look through settings and there was an option stating:

‘Logged-in Users – don’t show the cached version for logged-in users’ – I’ve ticked this and it appears to have worked!! Really appreciate your help Dominik!

One more question, is there any way I can put a ‘Forum’ link into the UM profile header bit? The custom menu edit in toolbox edits the forum menu which is awesome, but I’d also like a forum link in UM profile.

I’ve added screenshots of what I mean as I feel pictures explain more than I can! 🙂

Quote from timmy321 on August 19, 2020, 8:22 am

Hi Dominik,

 

I’ve liaised with the UM guys reference whether this is possible & they mentioned it requires custom code this end to add a link to the tabs for the forum.

 

I’ve noted some other forums have managed this (I’ve attached the example of wpforo).

 

Any way we can get this on the toolbox or you could signpost me somewhere where I could figure out how to do it?

 

Kind regards,

 

Tim

Quote from qualmy91 on August 19, 2020, 11:10 am

Hey @timmy321,

at the moment it’s only possible to show the history like in the Asgaros Forum, but I will also extend the functionality later. Please check the reply earlier to see how it looks like.

It’s a lot of work to add the same tab like in wpforo, so I can’t do this for free. If you want to code this on your own you should read the documentation of UM how to add a tab. To get the data out of Asgaros Forum you have to read the source code and check how to get it. After that just combine it and create a nice output.

Please contact me over my website if you want me do create this features for you.