I have installed bbpress for a client who does not want users to be able to add a topic.

Although I would like to see that as an option in settings, it is not, so I guess I have to get my hands dirty in the php files. OK fine.

So I’ve found and commented out the code in the forum.php and front-page.php files which contains the link to add a topic as so….

‘ <th><?php _e(‘Topic’); ?> <!–—–> <?php // new_topic(); ?></th>’

But to my dismay, I also see that a user can add a topic when they click on a Forum “Main Theme” title. The page they are taken to has a huge “New Topic in this Forum” area. I don’t want that and can’t quite figure out what file and what code I need to delete to get rid of that.

Help please?

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Plugin “Read only forums” might be what you’re looking for:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/#post-1019

This showed how to prevent members from adding new posts:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/no-new-posts-for-members#post-11656

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Before you go getting your hands dirty for anything, you will find that most of the functionality you desire has probably already been accounted for in a plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/

[@cnymike Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks for the help. I should have known to look first for a plugin to accomplish that… lesson learned.

[@cnymike Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

Well as it turns out, there wasn’t really a plugin to do what I wanted so I dug into the code and commented some stuff out. It has effectively removed the Add a Topic capability and is just what my client needed.