I’m using bbpress for my online class and I would like to create a forum that only I or a moderator can post to, and the students (members) can view only.

I’ve seen plug-ins to make forums private, but that’s not exactly what I need. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

This will affect all forums:

global $bb_roles;

$bb_roles->remove_cap('member','write_topics');

$bb_roles->remove_cap('member','write_posts');

You can put it into header.php or make a real plugin ie.

members-cannot-post.php (and install into /my-plugins/)

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Members Cannot Post

*/

global $bb_roles;

$bb_roles->remove_cap('member','write_topics');

$bb_roles->remove_cap('member','write_posts');

?>

I think I will make a real plugin which can control this on a per-forum basis since this seems to be a requested feature that is not too hard to handle in 0.9 Look for it in the plugin section over the next day or two.

[@suleiman Member 16 years, 8 months ago]

a plugin sounds great ck. I for one would definitely benefit from it.

[@suleiman Member 16 years, 8 months ago]

not so easy to implement it seems:

Fatal error: Call to a member function remove_cap() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/…/httpdocs/forums/my-plugins/nopost.php on line 8

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I’ve now written a plugin to solve this problem:

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

[@dragosbogdan Member 16 years, 8 months ago]

great plugin _ck_, thanks a bunch.