I have setup BBPress to work with A Membership plugin so only members of the community can access the forum (in order to keep strangers from getting in) but even though I have marked the forums page with the “members only” restriction, if I have a direct link, I can still see that page even without logging in.
So I implemented shortcodes for specific forums and created pages specific to that forum while adding quick links to sidebar navigation, which works beautifully. But if you click on the forum within the bbpress window it goes to the generic forum topic page and not the new page I designed.
How can I keep the forum from being viewed by not logged in members with a direct link? I cant have just anyone accessing this forum. Thanks

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years ago]

see the previous public/private in the other thread