I want to divert new members to only one category, "Introduce yourself" for example, so only after writing their first message in that category, they would be able to open new topics in the rest of the forum.
How can I achieve this?
Thank you.
you would need a permission profile to do what you want. take a look at these pages and see if they help.
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Permission_profiles_-_an_overview
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Permissions_-_How_do_I_set_up_post_count_based_membergroup_permissions
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Board_Permissions_-_Limit_posting_location_for_newbies
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Disallow_and_Deny_-_What's_the_difference_when_it_comes_down_to_permissions
Actually, no... permissions profiles are not what needs to be used here...
You need to set up the post count groups...
Give the zero post count group access to only the "introduce yourself" board and no access to any other board.
make sure the Regular Members group does not have access to any other board either.
Then make a post-count group for ONE post... and give that one (and all other post-count groups) access to everything that you want standard members to have
Thank you all. I think I will resolve my problem with all this help.