Robin,
After deactivating and activating and messing around, I discovered the problem was solely my fault. While I’d set the parent forum to private, none of the child forums had been marked private. If you want them private, they all need to be private.
My apologies for taking up your time for my own error.
Robin,
I added the Private Group plugin. And I removed the sidebar so I wouldn’t have a list of recent topics or recent replies. That leaves only the forum search box to consider.
I’ve got one private forum–visibility for the forum is set to private (and I did not check visibility on the Private Group settings page), I have a forum group checked on the forum page, and in Exchange Membership I restricted the content to forum members only.
However, through the search box on the public forum page, I can still search for words from a test topic in the private forum, and the topic and reply-to forum comments show in the search results. I can get this result while not being logged in to the site.
my site: The Editor’s Blog Members
link to the public forum page: Editor’s Blog Member Forum
If you type Sally in the search box in this public forum, it returns a topic and reply from the private Pro Editors forum. I was expecting to see a no topics found message. The Exchange Membership plugin did insert a message about the page being restricted, but those who aren’t members of the private forum can still see the titles of topics and replies, the topic itself, and the name and Gravatar of the topic author and the person who replied.
I tried this in multiple browsers, with me not logged on. And I deleted browsing histories and cookies.
I’m obviously missing something. What else can I do to hide private forum topics and replies from search results?
Thanks for your help.
Thank you, Robin. I’ll give that a try later tonight, and I’ll let you know the outcome.
Thanks, Robin. I was hoping that canceling a membership wouldn’t delete the user from the database, but I’ll check with the iThemes team.
