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- Started 2 years ago by agibbins
- Latest reply from johnhiler
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Announcement Forum
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Hi all,
I'm looking to create an announcement forum so I can post announcements for my site.
For this forum, I'd like it so only moderators+ can start topics but anyone can respond to a topic.
Does anyone know of a plugin that would add this ability?Many thanks.
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- Posted 2 years ago #
WordPress does this.
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This plugin should allow you to restrict who can post into a particular forum:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/I use it on one of my sites, and it works great!
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Thanks jonhiler. Problem is, this seems a tad buggy.
I've restricted a forum so no one but moderators+ can post in it, but at the bottom of the forum theres still: "New Topic in this Forum" for users. How can I remove this?
I also get errors like this:
Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /forum/my-plugins/read-only-forums.php on line 62 -
The instructions in the readme file should mention the settings?
* Until an admin menu is created, edit
read-only-forums.phpand change settings near the top as desired
* Add theread-only-forums.phpfile to bbPress'my-plugins/directory and activate.http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/installation/
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Oh sorry, I thought you meant settings within the admin panel. Yes, I've edited the script and edited the templates as instructed.
global $read_only_forums,$bb_current_user, $bb_roles;// edit users (and forums) by NUMBER below until an admin menu can be made
//$read_only_forums['deny_all_start_topic']=false; // true = stop ALL members from starting topics in ALL forums
//$read_only_forums['deny_all_reply']=false; // true = stop ALL members from replying to topics in ALL forums$read_only_forums['deny_forums_start_topic']=array(5); // which forums should ALL members NOT be able to start topics
//$read_only_forums['deny_forums_reply']=array(9,15,22); // which forums should ALL members NOT be able to reply to posts//$read_only_forums['allow_members_start_topic']= array(1=>array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7), 2=>array(9,10,11)); // allow override for this member=>forums
//$read_only_forums['allow_members_reply']= array(1=>array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7), 2=>array(9,10,11)); // allow override for this member=>forums//$read_only_forums['deny_members_start_topic']= array(54321=>array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7), 34567=>array(1,2,3)); // deny this specific member=>forums
//$read_only_forums['deny_members_reply'] = array(54321=>array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7), 34567=>array(1,2,3)); // deny this specific member=>forums$read_only_forums['allow_roles_always']=array('moderator','administrator','keymaster'); // these types of users can always start/reply
$read_only_forums['message_deny_start_topic']=__("Sorry, only moderators can start topics in this forum.");
$read_only_forums['message_deny_reply'] = __("Posting in this topic has been restricted.");// stop editing here
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Ah ok. The only thing I can think of is that I might be careful about commenting out some of those lines... but instead, put in forum numbers that you know won't be an issue. That's total speculation though.
Either way, I wouldn't comment out those two lines at the top of the settings:
'//$read_only_forums['deny_all_start_topic']=false; // true = stop ALL members from starting topics in ALL forums'
'//$read_only_forums['deny_all_reply']=false; // true = stop ALL members from replying to topics in ALL forums'If that doesn't work, it's probably a compatibility issue - _ck_ has mentioned that she's not updating a lot of her plugins for version 1.0 until December or so...
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Yay, thanks John, I set all the arrays to really high numbers and that eliminated the errors. But I still have "New Topic in this Forum" even when the user is unable to start a topic. You wouldn't know how to get rid of that would you? I can't seem to find it in the templates, perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place.
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