Bbpress hides both topics and replies for private forums – can you retest and let me know what you are doing to show these – ie click here go to that etc.
For users, install
bbp style pack
once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Profile
and you can set how and to whom they show
It is baffling.
The fact that by default, users and their REPLIES are not locked out.
Forums are. But if you are a user, and you merely REPLY to a forum post, that REPLY is NOT locked out, nor is that user.
How can that be right?!?!
Surely there is a basic default way to block emable/disable those areas, via the plugin. Not needing to download another plugin just to do that.
It’s a bit like having to buy an addon for your Facebook account, so you can block people from accessing your details, unless they sign in.
I did find a plugin that can do it – but shame on BBPress for not just doing such Privacy things, by default. We never installed anything as we assumed it would just be sensible.
Seriously????
1. I have already said that bbpress by default does block private replies, and asked you ‘can you retest and let me know what you are doing to show these – ie click here go to that etc.’ If you let me know when/how this is happening I will try to help further.
2. bbpress is free software, it didn’t cost you anything, the fact that the authors decided to leave profiles open is up to them. You do not need to ‘buy’ an addon, this is also free.
3. So basically you have free software with free support, and yet you feel entitled to rant about it.
“bbpress by default does block private replies”.
How does it block replies and access to Users by default?
Ignoring “private” replies. If the Forum is Private, how do you block access to user’s details and their replies, by default?
Talk me through that. Without plugins please.
I really cannot be bothered with you, you are clearly feeling very entitled, and I have answered your original question.
bbPress Members Only
The answer I found was with this plugin.
I just wish in the BBPress forum an support it showed you how.
We had a charity that paniced, as it is for members only. And while BBPress allows you to make the forum private, it doesn’t do it by default to check a box to do the same to Replies and Users. That scared them.
Thankfully this plugin does it. But why you can make the forum Privae, and not users and Replies, within the BBPress itself, is worrying.
One “expects” it to kind of be like that.
This isn’t just me. When I googled this type of question, a heck of a lot came up, from Functions to HTACCESS coding. Many asking how it can be happening in the first place.
Anyhow, for any you do have that question, I hope this thread helps to answer it. A) how to do it with a free extra plugin, and B), the fact that buy default:
Users info, and Replies, are not possible to set to private.
Cheers all.
