[nicolaiwh]

Hi all, very new to this!

I have setup a bbPress forum and my front page has two separate search boxes (one on the top and one to the right)

Both of these searchboxes return search results for non-members (although they cannot click the search results once they appear) is there a way to remove search results for users who have not signed in/managed to find a way to our forum?

[regnalf]

I need this functionality too, no answers yet?

[Robin W]

if forums are private then bbpress search should only show results to logged in users

[regnalf]

Ok, can i restrict this more for a specific user role?

Actually i want to have a forum that is for special members only. So nothing should be visible, accessable or should be found without a special role.

[Robin W]

Private groups

[regnalf]

WOW, Thanks for that fast reply!!! I will check it out.

Thank you

[regnalf]

bbpress private groups does a good job to hide forums, but that still doesn’t remove the index page. if anyone needs to restrict the index page for a complete private forum, here is the code:

add_action( 'wp', 'restrict_bbpress' );
function restrict_bbpress()
{

	global $wp;
	global $wp_query;	
	
	$bbpress_index = get_option ('_bbp_root_slug');
	
	if ($wp->request == $bbpress_index)
	{

		$user = get_userdata(get_current_user_id());
		
// Example for a user role member
		if (! is_user_logged_in() || 
		    ! in_array( 'member', (array) $user->roles ))
		{
			$wp_query->set_404();
			status_header( 404 );
		}

	}

}

[regnalf]

use if(strpos($wp->request, $bbpress_index) !== false) if you also want to restrict all possible sub-urls!