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• Started 2 years ago by adamcap
• Latest reply from softechnos
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• read-only forums
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Prevent Users From Creating Topics

1. • 
   • adamcap
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Hey there,

   I want to prevent users from creating new topics on my forum. I have everything synced with my WP installation, so new topics are created automatically with every new post.

   I guess I just want to remove the links from the forum template/theme to create new topics...is this possible?

   Thanks in advance for any help!

   Best Regards,

   Adam
2. • 
   • adamcap
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   actually I guess there is probably more to it than just removing the link...oh well if anyone has any ideas let me know :)
3. • 
   • johnhiler
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   This plugin should do just that!
   http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/
4. • 
   • adamcap
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   looks promising but says it's only compatible up to version 0.9 and I have 1.0. :/

   Maybe I'll try it out anyway
5. • 
   • adamcap
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   yeah it doesn't work. :( oh well

   all I want to do is prevent all users from starting topics on all forums, but still allow all new posts to from my blog to be imported via bb-sync and allow people to reply to them.
6. • 
   • mrsparex
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   If you found out how to do this ....I'd love to know the answer. I'm trying to set up a penny stock board but having mostly new topics will not work.
7. • 
   • mrsparex
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   On this forum were on now...you go to a topic and it has a reply box at the bottom. On my board when you click on a topic it shows a box to start a new topic? I tried playing around with the sub categories but then replies can't be added ro posts there...I don't know the answer. pennyforums.com
8. • 
   • buddha trance
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   What you can do, is edit forum.php of your theme files and edit out
   <?php post_form(); ?>

   it's at the very end, just before the call for the footer. This will display only the topics.

   You also edit, in both forum.php and front-page.php
   <th><?php _e('Topic'); ?> — <?php bb_new_topic_link(); ?></th>
   to become
   <th><?php _e('Topic'); ?></th>

   This should do it.
9. • 
   • mrsparex
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   thank you
10. • 
    • mrsparex
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I did this (with shaky nervous fingers) and taa daa!!! it worked. They can still click on "hot tags" and create a new topic but that's okay...they don't see it EVERT time now. Thanks again....
11. • 
    • buddha trance
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    @mrsparex - I see, there was one more! :-)
    You can edit tag-single.php the same way as before, on these lines:
    <th><?php _e('Topic'); ?> — <?php bb_new_topic_link(); ?></th>
<?php post_form(); ?>
12. • 
    • Sexkeyfi
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    thank you bro
13. • 
    • Ben L.
    • Moderator

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    You could always use Role Manager and disable "Make new topics" for Members.
14. • 
    • Michael
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I somehow managed to download the Read only forums plugin. Forgot how/where.

    You can grab it from my server: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/bbpress/plugins/read-only-forums.zip

    The only thing I found was that it didn't remove the header ("New Topic in this Forum") for read only forums. Oh well - it still works, which is grand.

    :)
15. • 
    • softechnos
    • Member

    • Posted 1 week ago #

    Hey Guys,
    I am using the latest version of bbpress and I want to stop users to create topics.

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