Topic: Limit # of visible posts for not logged users

Limit # of visible posts for not logged users

Kar-l
Member

@kar-l

15 years, 4 months ago

I run a forum (bbPress 1.01, thanks!) were I’d like to motivate visitors to register.

Could someone please let me know how could I limit the number of posts visible to guests (not logged users) to, say, 5 and end it with “There is more posts here, if you want to see them, please login/register”

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johnhiler
Member

@johnhiler

15 years, 4 months ago

This is the closest plugin, I think:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/force-login/

Maybe it could be adapted to do what you described?

Kar-l
Member

@kar-l

15 years, 4 months ago

Thank you for the reply. _ck_ says this plugin is old… so I’m hesitant… (security, compatibility, name it)

Besides I believe it’s a good idea to show most content to visitors, just not all the content. The same applies to search engines – I don’t want to mess with serving different content to spiders, what would be sleazy.

If there is nothing like what I ask about, maybe it’s a good idea for a new plugin?

frooyo
Member

@frooyo

15 years, 4 months ago

To motivate user interaction (sign up), the best approach is to do something like this:

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk

Where for non-logged in users, you display the comment field to post a reply. But once you click submit, it asks you to login/register.

I talked about this in a previous post –>

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/allow-anyone-to-post-to-bbpress-including-non-logged-in-visitors

Kar-l
Member

@kar-l

15 years, 4 months ago

Yup, that’s one of possible solutions. But I believe it would be programatically easier and more functional to write a patch/plugin just to limit posts visibility and encourage people to register to access the content. The niche I’m in is very thin and small, so the content is precious, I believe.

_ck_
Participant

@_ck_

15 years, 4 months ago

You could easily modify the “topics per page” plugin to work differently depending if a user is logged in or not.

In fact the plugin could be modified to allow each user to choose how many topics per page and how many posts per topic, now that I think about it.

Not sure if it’s working on 1.0 though, probably not.

Kar-l
Member

@kar-l

15 years, 4 months ago

I’d like to bump. I can’t write php…