Mingle 5 Minute setup

1. You need to download and install Mingle from WordPress.org install and activate it. So far its been easy

1a. Mingle Now has its own PM system, if you are using a PM such as Cartpauj-PM it would be advisable to deactivate it now, as you do not need to have two PM’s on your system.

2. Now you will need to create your pages for Mingle. You may go to your wp admin area and make all 9 pages, make these pages make sure you set them to not allow comments. The pages are as follows: (or you can now allow Mingle to create these pages for you)

(If the user chooses AUTO they have to Save then go back and set the pages that were just created and then SAVE again.)

Profile
Settings
Friends
Friends Requests
Activity
Directory
Login
Register
Inbox

*Now you need to assign the pages in the Mingle settings Page assign each page you created in the
*Mingle setting in wp-admin as follows. Each page is selected from a drop down menu by the
*page name. Unless you let Mingle create the pages for you, this step is complete..

Once pages are assigned go to the bottom of the settings page update options (save your work)

The next section is Profile Options:

Pretty Profile Urls
When checked, Pretty Profile Urls will allow users to type their screenname following your site’s domain name for their url. Note, if you do not have Apache rewrite functioning and have not selected something other than “Default” under your General Permalink settings, this will not work.

This is done by going to the permalink settings and setting the custom field to /%postname%/ this makes things very much cleaner.

User Registration Email Spam Protection
When checked, Mingle will use advanced email lookup techniques to validate the user signup to prevent against user registration spam.

Block Robots from Registering as Users
When checked, Mingle will attempt to identify the user as legitimate or as a robot (computer program) if it’s a robot then registration will be prevented.

Require Captcha On User Signup Page
When checked, Mingle will display an image captcha that the user will be required to complete in order to successfully register.

Prevent Subscribers Access to the WordPress Admin
When checked, Mingle will redirect non-admin users to their activity page if attempting to go anywhere within /wp-admin.

Remove Mingel Branding from Widgets
When unchecked, Mingle will will remove the Powered By Mingel from the Widgets for you.

When finished go to the bottom of the setting page and update options (save your work)

Now we all want a friend, No? well maybe. In order for you to post to your users you will need to be their friend. This is done in the following area:

Default Friends:

These Users will be added as a friends to all new signups.

Select a default friend as shown in the below pic then go to the bottom of the page and update then again go to the bottom of the page and use theadd Default Friends to Existing Users sentence to set them, you can add more than 1 friend as shown here: Once you have them set go to the bottom of the settings page and Add Default Friends to Existing Users. This will ensure that defaults friends are set for already existing site users.

As time goes by we all get a not to nice user, or users that you just don’t want to us Mingle, you can allow them to still be a member of your site but not Mingle by making them:

Invisible Users:

Any users checked below will not be visible to Mingle. They won’t have a profile page, friends, be listed in the directory or show up anywhere in mingle. Select them as shown below.

Last but not least:

Field Display Options:

Configure the fields you’d like your users to see, and if they will be able to display them on their profiles. Public indicates that the field will be available to the users and that the value they enter into it will show up on their public profiles. Private indicates that the field will be available to the users but the value they enter into it will not show up on their public profiles. Hidden indicates that this field won’t be visible to the users or on their public profiles. You my also add a custom field here as well.

Your Done! Remember always to save your work after each step.

Enjoy Mingle and let us know now it’s working for you.

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