[nmschaller]

Hello robkk,

No need to hurry. This is not a matter of days.

I am reconsidering: maybe I am too worried about privacy. I just checked with a management innovation community I am a forum member in. My profile there is also public. And so are the management hacks that people post there.

In this context of creating a virtual room and a social learning experience for my clients, I am checking out various options. There is, for example a new plugin “Buddypress for Sensei” that requires both installed. BuddyPress again creates further pages like “Members” that cannot easily be set private.

So maybe, I should create the learning platform as I envision it and take a more relaxed stance on the fact that parts of the profile and member information are visible for guests.

Thanks a lot for your input.

Nicole

[nmschaller]

O.k. I deinstalled the members only plugin and installed the Functionality plugin.

With this and your code snippet, robkk, I was able to hide the forum/topic descriptions. I also found a code snippet to redirect all bbpress feed requests.

Now, I found this to hide the user page:

bbPress – Making Profile Pages Private

But I am wondering:
– Is that update safe?
– Is there a way to solve the same in functions.php or .htaccess instead of starting with a third approach to get familiar with? I have seen something like returning the user profile blank. Unformatted as they are they are useless anyway.

Nicole

[nmschaller]

Not sure, if this was transmitted:

I am close to desperate.

I have given the bbp members only plugin a try. And after clearing all caches I can confirm that it works:
– forum index page: You have no permission to view this.
– single topics: redirect to homepage
– rss feeds (good to know that bbpress generates public feeds!): you have no permission to view this.
– with some occasional blips like 404 pages after logout.

But.

I also offer WooThemes Sensei online courses. They are protected, too. When someone logs in with the log in page created by Sensei, the “My courses” area appears. When the person then clicks on “Client forum” in the same menu, she is kicked out as a logged in user and gets “You have no permission to view this”.

When I refresh the “Client forum” page, the content is displayed.

What shall I do???

Nicole

[nmschaller]

Hi there,

I am close to desperate.

I have given the bbp members only plugin a try. And after clearing all caches I can confirm that it works:
– forum index page: You have no permission to view this.
– single topics: redirect to homepage
– rss feeds (good to know that bbpress generates public feeds!): you have no permission to view this.
– with some occasional blips like 404 pages after logout.

But.

I also offer WooThemes Sensei online courses. They are protected, too. When someone logs in with the log in page created by Sensei, the “My courses” area appears. When the person then clicks on “Client forum” in the same menu, she is kicked out as a logged in user and gets “You have no permission to view this”.

When I refresh the “Client forum” page, the content is displayed.

What shall I do???

Nicole

[nmschaller]

Hello robkk,

Thank you for pointing me to the functionality plugin. I did not know that such thing exists. I also have a theme with filters + hooks in the theme options:

• https://support.woothemes.com/hc/en-us/articles/203106877-Canvas-Hook-Filter-Reference

If I knew where to place the code, I might not need the plugin.

Nicole

[nmschaller]

Hello robkk,

Thank you very much for your answers. They helps me get started.

I have found a way to hide most notices by CSS. Question is, can I keep it that way, or will there be any important notices not showing up later when the user is interacting with the form:

/* bbpress */
div.bbp-template-notice.info {
display: none;
}

div.bbp-template-notice {
display: none;
}

The bbpress pages cause me headaches. The original bbpress pages for forum index and user page all come out unformatted in my theme, practically useless. I have created a forums page by using shortcodes for forum index and topics index. That is well formatted and informative. But only with one level of hierarchy.

The users plugin you suggest is from 2 years ago; I would not install that. I am told again and again by my hoster and main plugin providers that old plugins are one of the greatest vulnerabilities. Isn’t there a way to block all access to pages containing mysite/forums/users/* in .htaccess or something like that?

And then I had to turn off the buttons for html because they are badly formatted, barely legible in white text on light-grey background.

I also would like to offer my clients a possibility to create a profile page with some background on themselves and the business project they are working on. I have tried BuddyPress but it is not for me. I cannot code and this seems to be necessary to effectively use BuddyPress. So, I have not found a good solution for that yet. For the moment I have chosen to go with the wordpress.com/gravatar profiles and encourage people to introduce themselves and their project in the forum.

Nicole

[nmschaller]

There is something else:

I already had bbpress installed and one of the reasons I was looking for a solution elsewhere is that I found out it had created user pages that display the forum activity of registered users.

How can I block these pages from being publicly viewed? The forums and the participants profiles shall all be private.

Thanks a lot.

Nicole