I think this has been discussed before but I need to revisit it.

The “closed” topic type was not for for my theme with respects to styling. My text was light and with the background was hard to see. I got round it by using strikethrough instead and that would fine.

But I still feel this is not quite right and I am not sure what to do about it. A forum can be set as closed and that is great. A normal participant can’t add new topics. Great. Effectively a read-only forum.

For why can’t we have a read-only topic? Technically open but locked to further comments? It is just read only or locked. Not closed as such.

Appreciate thoughts on this.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 2 months ago]

a topic can be closed, just as a forum can be closed.

If you close a topic, then it is exactly as you describe. It is read only.

[@ajtruckle Participant 5 years, 2 months ago]

Yeah, but in forums like phpBB, if you close a topic you are locking the topic. This is indicated to the user by a icon. I added some styling which I had gleaned from the internet:

#bbpress-forums .status-closed > li.bbp-topic-title > a.bbp-topic-permalink:before {
	content: "[Locked]";
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #ffffff;
	color: #ff0000;
	margin-right: 5px;
	font-size: 16pt !important;
}

This gives me a lock symbol but the look and feel of this symbol is not as nice as the paper clip which is visible for topics with attachments (using the GD Attachments plugin).

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 2 months ago]

so essentially the question is how to replace your locked icon with a paperclip – yes ?

[@ajtruckle Participant 5 years, 2 months ago]

No no. Now sure how to show screen grabs here. Look:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bxn05evgt1njz37/Icons.jpg?dl=0

See how the paperclip just looks nicer?

The lock styling is not as nice. I don’t want to replace it with a paper clip but I want the styling to be similar to the paper clip. Make sense? If I could sort that out then I would remove the strike through since the padlock will be enough info.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 2 months ago]

‘nicer’ is always subjective, and I don’t understand what the difference between the papercip and the lock is if you take away the strikethough

[@ajtruckle Participant 5 years, 2 months ago]

Fair point! I have removed the strike-through and I am in agreement. Case closed. 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 2 months ago]

🙂