[locutus1]

That looks good now. Thanks. Do you have any idea why my forums are only visible to people who are logged in even though they’re set to public?

[locutus1]

If I click on a user I see “Role” with a drop-down menu, as I said before, but if I scroll down I see “forum role” with another drop-down menu. I went to the Personal Options for a few users and none of these drop-downs are set to anything. They’re all set to “No role for these forums”. Participant is an option in this drop-down.

[locutus1]

Well, in the “Forum User Settings” it says
“Auto Role” [checkbox] “Automatically give registered visitors the [drop-down menu] forum role”

The checkbox is checked and the drop-down is set to “participant”. If I go to Users in the dashboard, the “Site Role” for every member except me is “subscriber”. If I click on a user I see “Role” with a drop-down menu next to it and it’s set to “Subscriber”. “Participant” is not an option. The other options are Contributor, Author, Editor and Administrator. So I’m confused about this because “Forum User Settings” says users should be participants but they’re all subscribers. So is this right? If I go to the site without being logged in as admin, I can register and I will then be a subscriber and I can see the 3 topics in the FPS forum – the link in the first post in this thread.

[locutus1]

I changed the theme to twenty seventeen which is a default theme and it made no difference. I told my host about the issue. I told them everything that has been mentioned in this thread. They asked for the link to this thread which I gave them. This is their entire reply:

“We just checked the logs on the server but we did not see any issue from the server side so we suggest you contact the plugin provider and ask them to have a look into this issue as that will certainly help.”

I don’t know what info you would get from looking at logs but that’s all they said. So they give up.

[locutus1]

I just deactivated ALL my plugins except bbpress. bbpress is the only active plugin. I then restarted my browser, loaded the site and entered a forum with 3 topics (the FPS forum that my first post above links to). I logged out from my site as admin. The three topics disappeared. I can still see the forums but I can’t see any topics in any forum.

[locutus1]

That looks good now. Thanks. Do you have any idea why my forums are only visible to people who are logged in even though they’re set to public?

[locutus1]

I installed bbp toolkit which has a checkbox “Do not grey out closed topics”. That’s exactly what I want. The text font color is different now so it’s very readable but it changes the way sub-forums are listed in a main forum. bbP Style Pack makes the list vertical like this:

Main forum 1
Sub forum 1
Sub forum 2
Sub forum 3
Main forum 2
Sub forum 1
Sub forum 2
Sub forum 3

Enabling the toolkit changes it so it’s like this:

Main forum 1
sub forum 1 sub forum 2 sub forum 3
Main forum 2
sub forum 1 sub forum 2 sub forum 3

So the style pack and toolkit are incompatible. Either I have the forums listed vertically but closed topics are hard to read or I can read closed topics but the forums are listed horizontally. I looked through everything in the toolkit. I don’t see a way to stop it from changing the forum list to horizontal.

[locutus1]

dashboard>forums>all forums lists all the forums. I went into several main forums (type ‘category’) and sub-forums. The status for all of them is “open” and visibility is “public”.

[locutus1]

I did more experimenting and you have to be logged in to see the forum topics. You can see the rest of the site without being logged in but you have to be logged in to see the forum topics.

[locutus1]

The above link goes to a page with 2 closed and 1 open topic. You can even see “This forum contains 3 topics”. I logged out as admin and now I can’t see them. So you need to be logged in to see them. I’m new to WordPress so I don’t know why it’s like that.

[locutus1]

I gave an example.

[locutus1]

I have now disabled bbp style pack.

[locutus1]

I had a lot of trouble getting registration to work on my site until someone told me my host doesn’t support “membership plugins” which I think means I can’t make login and register pages with short-code like [bbp-login]. So to log people in I just use the default WordPress login. I put “/wp-admin” at the end of my domain to load the page. Then I made a custom link to load it and did the same for register and reset password. Now people can log in and post.

[locutus1]

Just to be clear, I’m using bbPress to make my forums and I assume the big white capital “W” in the blue circle stands for WordPress which is why I think it must be a default login screen.

[locutus1]

Thanks. That worked.

[locutus1]

I explained something wrong. If you click a main forum, the sub-forums it contains become main forums and 18 pt.

[locutus1]

1) Good to know. That solves that.

2) This worked but only partly. My terminology may be wrong. I have a menu item which is a category. If you click it, it lists 4 main forums each of which is also a category. Under each main forum are listed its sub-forums. The code you gave me made the main forums bigger – 18 pt is good – but the sub-forums are a little small. If you click a sub-forum then it becomes a main forum and it’s 18 pt. So the code affects main forums only. I don’t know if this is clear so look at this. This is what I see if I click the menu item.

Main forum1
(indented) sub-forum1, sub-forum2, sub-forum3, sub-forum4
Main forum2
Main forum3

Each main forum is 18 pt. I understand the sub-forums should be smaller than the main forums but they’re a little too small. Can that be adjusted? It’s OK if it can’t be.

3) I’m still working on this one.

Thanks a lot. I have other questions but I’ll make a new post.