Reply To: Make Private Forum Name & Topic Count Visible To Everyone
Hi Robin. Once again, thanks for the reply. In fact I HAD inadvertently done something silly whilst setting up my forums. I thought I’d repeat it here so everyone can learn from my own stupidity.
On your recommendation I installed the bbp_private_groups plugin the other day. This allows a forum to be accessed by a private group you create but also allows the public to see the forum title and topic contents if necessary. There’s a redirect for non-logged in users.
What the plug-in needs you to do, however, is make the forum PUBLIC. Somewhere down the line I had set it to PRIVATE.
So lesson learnt: make all forums public and just use the private_groups plugin to set it all up. The Private_forums_visibility plugin isn’t required if you’re trying to achieve what I was attempting to do.
You can see it in action here where the Assignment Submissions forum takes you to a page telling you the forum is private. It’s a nice way of encouraging more people to sign up too.
