so depending o your exact setup, so if you go into
dashboard>appearance>widgets you should see an option for a sidebar, in which you will see the bbpress login widget, just remove that.
Then in
dashboard>forums>all forums>edit forum you can close the forums.
Thank you.
I looked into >appearance>widgets and the bbpress sidebar, but there was nothing added there.
Under dashboard, I didn’t see a selection for “forums”. All I have is on the relevant page the shortcode added “[bbp-single-forum id=58]“.
Does this help understand more about what I have?
Best regards,
Graham.
I’m presuming that someone else put this site together then?
Hi Robin,
No, it was myself, some 8-years ago, when I added the forum. Since then we’ve added WP page content, images etc, and I’ve just kept it updated. The addition of the single BBpress forum on one page was very simple using the shortcode “bbp-single-forum”, with no other changes that I recall. Eventually I hope to remove all visible log-in possibilities, relying only on c-panel admin access for update/maintenance purposes.
Maybe I’m missing something here, and removal of the site log-in widget will also remove the login option on the forum page. Did you already take a look to see what I mean? Under the “memories shared” tab, you will see further tabs, one of which is Forum, and that is where the other Login/register section is, below the forum topics. It is this part I would like to see removed so that the page is cleaner.
Is that possible?
Thanks in advance,
Graham.
Hi Robin, my apologies, I just found the detail within the widget options you were referring to. I’ve now deleted them, but at the moment I’m still seeing everything the same, so maybe this is a cache issue. I’ll check further later and update you on what I find.
G
Hi Robin,
Website pages cache cleared and not the login options have gone…. Excellent!
The only thing I’m left with now on the forum page is “Create New Topic in “……” and the open area below. Is there a way to remove this without losing the content of the discussions?
Best regards,
Graham.
so we’re back to you needing to close the forum in
dashboard>forums
If you are not seeing this, then can you go to
dashboard>users and look at users, you should see that at least one has ‘keymaster’ as a bbpress role – do you see this?
Hi Robin,
I couldn’t see dashboard>forums, and the user roles (with none as Keymaster) are limited to Moderator, Participant, Spectator, and Blocked. The user page just says “forum role”, there is no mention of BBpress role.
Does that help?
I can email, or put on googre drive, some screenshots if that may help.
Regards,
Graham.
ok, we need to make you a keymaster
Install
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Bug Fixes.
you will see an option to set yourself as keymaster, tick that and click save
you will then see that you are a keymaster, and should now be able to see the forums in dashboard>forums
Once you can see this you can decativate and delete the style pack plugin
then in dashboard>forums you can close the forum
Fabulous! Many thanks Robin. All resolved now that I can see, many thanks for your patience and help.
G.
great – glad you are fixed 🙂
