Quote from Burt on July 21, 2020, 3:20 am

Hi dbcoleman

It is possible to have unlimited forums on the same site and you don’t need to have them on separate pages. To prevent one user from seeing the other forum, you use groups. Easier and simpler..

Two separate forums on two separate pages both on the same server is a lot of work to setup and maintain but not impossible..

Quote from dbcoleman on July 21, 2020, 3:41 am

Hi Burt,

Thank you for the quick response—much appreciated!

The “forums” on this website that I’m referring to will actually operate more like small chat rooms where 1-2 dozen people will be asking and answering questions to each other (so they will be fairly small).

Also, each of the 2 “forum” pages are currently accessible through a WordPress password-protected page, so the users won’t be logging in per se.

Knowing that this is my current setup, can I still achieve the goal of having each one of the “forums” on its own page, or do I still need to use user groups in some fashion?

Thank you!

David

Quote from Burt on July 21, 2020, 3:59 am

Hi David

If the user don’t need to login, you can’t really use the Usergroup to hide the other forum..

If you can’t get user to login, I would use a chat program more than a forum.. There are several available and I believe some are free..

Besides, using the forum for chatting is not really user friendly as you can’t have people chatting simultaneously. If for chatting you mean I ask a question and you give me an answer, (like we are doing here now) then an FAQ program would work even better..

If you really need/want to use two forums for your purpose, I would recommend something like SMF where you can give the forum the needed different structure including the database on the server, so that they can act independently of each other. But like I said, is a lot of work for what you are trying to do..

Cheers

Quote from qualmy91 on July 21, 2020, 6:44 am

Hey @dbcoleman,

did you already try to show only a specific forum or category?

Asgaros Forum has different shortcodes that might help you with your plan.

If you want to use two different categories use [forum category="CATEGORYID"] or [forum category="CATEGORYID1,CATEGORYID2"]. There is also one shortcode to show a specific forum [forum forum="FORUMID"].

Just create two different Pages:

Forum 1

[forum category=1]

Forum 2

[forum category=2]

 

If you do that it will look like two different forums, but technically it’s only one. For example the statistics that are shown in a category will always count all topics in the whole forum. If that is a problem, you should go with the single forum shortcodes [forum forum="FORUMID"]

It’s also the same with the stats in a user profile. If you activate them they will not be for a specific forum or category.

There could be some more to adjust to prevent Users from seeing the other forum. I only checked some basic links, but they seem to direct only to the forum of the shortcode. In my case it was also important to delete the main shortcode [forum], so that the links are not pointing to the main forum page.

I would also advice to not use the profile, because it will always show all the topics where a user wrote something.

I hope that will help you with your project. Just let me know if you need further help.

Quote from dbcoleman on July 21, 2020, 5:55 pm

Burt and qualmy91,

Thank you both so much for all of your help with this issue!

qualmy91, your shortcode solution using the forum ID is exactly what I needed, thank you!

This is a great plugin and the help I’ve received over here has been phenomenal.

All the best,

David

Quote from qualmy91 on July 21, 2020, 6:06 pm

Hey David,

nice to know that we were able to help you with your problem.

Please don’t forget to give Asgaros Forum a 5-Star Rating on WordPress to help other Users to find this Plugin.

Quote from dbcoleman on July 21, 2020, 6:33 pm

qualmy91,

More than happy to! Thank you again for your help!

David