[Peter]

Is there a way where I can enable logged out users to read topics. Everything is public but when you click on the topic link to read it, nothing shows, it just says You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Site: http://meditationpracticeornot.com/forums/topic/welcome-new-members/

Thank you

[Robin W]

This should be the default position ie not logged in can view, but only logged in reply.

Check your forums (dashboard>forums) and pick any one of your forms to edit

You should have :

Visibility : Public on the top right hand side

[Peter]

All the forums are set to public, but still can not read the topics when I click on them, could a plugin be causing this problem?

[Peter]

I edited content-single-topic.php and removed the ‘<?php if ( bbp_show_lead_topic() ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>` The post shows up when I click on the topic, but now if I login and click a topic the post displays twice. I am also using a child theme so I wont break anything.

What I had before:

<?php if ( bbp_show_lead_topic() ) : ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'single-topic-lead' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Hope this helps

[Peter]

I was able to fix this by using the following code:

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>

<?php if ( bbp_show_lead_topic() ) : ?>
		 
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'single-topic-lead' );	?>
                			 
<?php endif; ?>

<?php } else { ?>
					 
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'single-topic-lead' );	?>
                			 		
<?php } ?>