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• Started 5 years ago by mackem
• Latest reply from mackem2
• This topic is not a support question

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Closing Forums For New Topics

1. • 
   • mackem
   • Member

   • Posted 5 years ago #

   Hello,
   The title says it all really. Is there an option to do this? I couldn't find one. Sometimes it's useful to limit who can post to what.

   This is what I did, I don't know if it's right:

   1. added a column 'closedforpost' to the bb_forums column
   2. updated bb-includes\template-functions.php:86: with the code
   function post_form( $h2 = '' ) {
global $bb_current_user, $bb, $page, $topic, $forum;
if($forum->closedforpost==1) return;


   3. updated bb-includes\template-functions.php:756:
   function new_topic( $text = false ) {
global $bb_current_user, $bb, $page, $topic, $forum;
if($forum->closedforpost==1) return;

   While I was there, it seemed wrong to put in big writing [Closed] before every topic and forum that was flagged as closed when all I wanted to do was lock it, but there was no nice code to do this so I resorted to simply changing the closed_title() function to simply not show anything! I guess this is a suggestion rather than a plea for help.

   Thanks.
2. • 
   • Michael Adams (mdawaffe)
   • Key Master

   • Posted 5 years ago #

   In future versions of bbPress, you will be able to do this with a short plugin.

   As for the [Closed] issue, you can solve that be removing the filter and adding your own (or using custom templates).

   remove_filter('topic_title', 'closed_title', 30);
3. • 
   • mackem2
   • Member

   • Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks, I've done most of it now and my forum is working. The site is just going up (i.e. not ready), but the forum skin can be seen at http://www.retrographer.com/forum/

   The software is most excellent :)

   I think it's a bug with your style sheet, but if you visit you might notice the hot tags go past the main window bottom. This is because the hot tags are a float and so have no content. It either needs a clear:both or a overflow:hidden at the end of the floated tags.

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