You can see it here:

http://wijmo.com/users/andrewduhan/

Thanx

Thanks for this code. Ive been waiting for something like this, and was about to start working on a plugin to do the same thing.

My final solution was to make bbPress ‘dumb’ when it comes to logged out users. I.e., it could either be clever and say “there are topics, but you’re not allowed to see them until you login” or it could just say “there are no topics”.

Thanks for the code! I have it working but I dont follow what you mean with the quoted login.

Is this a shortcode setting, or are you changing the default message of "Oh bother! No forums were found here!".

i'm sure we'll be seeing an update soon that will asplode everything we've done so far, but until then, very cool workaround.

WR!

The basic aim was to hide the contents of topics in a bbPress 2.0 forum from any users not logged in. This makes for a nice private forum.

I found suggestions about making forums hidden, private and so on but none of them really worked as they hid them for logged in users too.

My final solution was to make bbPress ‘dumb’ when it comes to logged out users. I.e., it could either be clever and say “there are topics, but you’re not allowed to see them until you login” or it could just say “there are no topics”.

The following code does the latter, dumb version by hooking into the forums, topics and replies loops.

[code]function pj_hla_logged_in_topics($have_posts){
if (!is_user_logged_in()){
$have_posts = null;
}
return $have_posts;
}
add_filter('bbp_has_topics', 'pj_hla_logged_in_topics');
add_filter('bbp_has_forums', 'pj_hla_logged_in_topics');
add_filter('bbp_has_replies', 'pj_hla_logged_in_topics');[/code]

I simply placed this within my theme’s functions.php but you could just as easily wrap this in a function.

Hope that helps someone!

For anyone reading this thread, the conclusion is that this is a bug or feature that needs work.

The work-around is above.

This is effectively closed for now, awaiting Trac feedback.

andre, thanks for the info. that makes sense to me wrt to user roles, groups and forums. guess you are right: need jjj to say whether bug or feature and if feature, how to properly configure and use.

Edits made to function.php will get overwritten when you upgrade, so I think using the plugin is the better route.

Creating the ticket will make JJJ take a look at it and fix it or explain it.

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1663

I used the WP plugin 'User Role Editor' (WP not bbp plugin)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

to add some capabilities to the 'forum participant' role.

These seem to be the extra capabilities required:

[v] read_hidden_forums
[v] read_private_forums
[v] read_private_replies
[v] read_private_topics

If set up without the 'read_hidden_forums' capability, forums are visible, but not topics. I don't know if this is real or because I have been switching the hidden/private setting for the forum during testing.

I have done some basic testing and access/posting/replies/create topic/uploads/subscribe all seem to work OK.

I guess this could be done simply via some code in functions.php, but I don't have the time to investigate.

Andre - before I add this as a possible bug on Trac, is it possible that this is intended or a feature?

It seems to me that making a user a 'forum participant' should allow them to view on of hidden/private forums, although I'm not clear about the destinction between hidden and private. But perhaps the Devs think that private/hidden should only be seen by mods and above. If so, it makes private forums tricky.

hmmm.... is this actually working (forum participants can access hidden forums?) for everyone else/

Forum = Visibility: Hidden
User = Forum Participant
Result = Oh bother! No forums were found here!

Forum = Visibility: Hidden
User = Forum Moderator
Result = Forums and topics show OK

Forum = Visibility: Private
User = Forum Participant
Result = Oh bother! No forums were found here!

Forum = Visibility: Private
User = Forum Moderator
Result = Forums and topics show OK

I also tried posting a topic as the user, but even that does not show.

SDo no luck

I have installed bbPress OK and have a single forum with a few topics/replies as a test.

The forum is for members only and so I set it to 'private' in Forum attributes > visibility.

I then created a member 'Fred Smith' and set them as a 'Forum Participant' but when I log in as them, I get an error "Oh bother! No forums were found here!".

If I set them to 'Forum Moderator' they can see the forum and topics, but then they also have moderator privilages displayed, which is not wanted.

Is this a bug, or am I not understanding 'private' correctly?

Thanks for any help.

I'd like to completely prevent a user from registering in bbPress. I want the WordPress User database to control roles and capabilities inside bbPress. In fact, I don't want users to be able to register in WordPress either. No, it won't be any empty forum (hampers discussion) because all of the users will be added and updated via an integration between an external customer system and the WordPress user database.

Here's the perfect scenario for our client.

In the external customer system a subset of customers, lets say 10 of them get a role and custom capability called "Review Committee". The integration between the customer system and WordPress User database insures the 10 customers on the committee are in the WP User database with the "Review Committee" capability. In bbPress, we'd like the Review Committee to have a private discussion space/thread (sorry, I'm not familiar with the correct bbPress term), controlled by the user capability the 10 individuals have where only the 10 of them with the "Review Committee" capability can participate in their discussion, share documents, etc. For our client, subsets of their customer base like the "Review Committee" example outlined above will come and go but all will need a private space in bbPress to conduct their business.

So, will this work?

Your thoughts are very much appreciated!

DB.

Thanks

Upon explicitly removing those 'W3 Total Cache' plugin .php files ~ I was able to reinstall bbpress and Deep Integrate successfully.

I've set up a bbpress forum and followed all of the instructions available on the documentation for integrating wordpress and bbpress. All is well until I attempt to Deep Integrate by editing the 'bb-config.php' file adding:

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../wp-load.php');

When this line is included in the bb-config.php file I receive an "HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request." in chrome and just a blank white page in firefox when attempting to view the bbpress page (mysite.com/forum) without first having signed into wordpress.

when i sign into wordpress first and then browse to mysite.com/forum, the bbpress front page appears but i have to resubmit credentials. if i sign out of bbpress then i get the error/blank page again.

of interest is when i replace define('WP_CACHE', true); with define('WP_CACHE', false); in wordpress's wp-config.php file - the error/blank page issue goes away, i am able to access bbpress (mysite.com/forum) without first having signed into wordpress - but the user and cookie integration FAIL still occurs -

I appreciate any insight.

I am using a paid membership plugin on my site which has a conditional function which you can use to check if a user is a paid member

Now I don't where to put that function in bbpress files or which hook to use to show a not allowed message when a non paying member tries to open the forum

It would be grea tif some could point me in the right direction or just tell me in which file to look for.. I am guessing I can use the same function bbpress uses to check if the forum in private or public

Thanks.