I just copied the bbpress theme files to my child theme and thought asking here would be a lot easier than wading through all the code.

I would like to hide replies from anonymous visitors, basically with an if/else statement. If logged in, show replies; if not logged in, hide replies and show a message that it’s for members only. The idea is that the topic would be readable by Google but the replies would be private.

Is there a single theme file I can edit for this or are there multiple files to edit? Trying to figure out which file is like looking for a needle in haystack! Thanks.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

I start by looking at the ‘loop’ files – loop-replies.php looks likely

[@echoleaf Participant 11 years, 7 months ago]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

In the spirit of free community software – if/when you work a solution out, do post it here, so that others following along in a few months/years can see how it was done !

Thanks

[@echoleaf Participant 11 years, 7 months ago]

I will 🙂

[@prokops Participant 10 months, 3 weeks ago]

For anyone looking for news on this topic, I have a simple css solution:

/* FORUM */
.logged-in #main .bbp-replies.forums,
.logged-in #main .bbp-pagination-count{
display: block;
}
#main .bbp-replies.forums,
#main .bbp-pagination-count {
display: none;
}

This does not hide replies programatically, just hides them from view, but this might be good enough for some, as it is for us. It is just a barrier made to make people signup / login.