Hi!
I am new to bbpress but try to build up a members only forum, so all forums are marked private or hidden. When a not logged in user visits the forum a message like “Sorry! No forum found!” is shown.
Is it possible to be more accurate and display e.g. “Sorry! You have to login or register to proceed” when a forum exists but is hidden?
Thanks for your time!

[@dater Participant 6 years, 1 month ago]

Hello again,
i think we need a setting e.g. “expose secret forums”. The statistics widget is affected too, counting strange in this setup.

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 1 month ago]

lots of ways to do this, you might want to have a think about the best for you

I have a plugin called

Private groups

which lets you set up groups and may be the best solution

alternately

if you are able to ftp and edit files the message is held in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php

so

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so go into it and amend the message to what you desire.

You could instead put this in your functions file or put it in a code plugin such as

PHP code snippets (Insert PHP)

function rew_change_text( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
	if ( $text == 'Oh bother! No forums were found here!' ) {
	$translated_text = 'whatever you want it to say in here!' ;
	}
	return $translated_text;
}

add_filter( 'gettext', 'rew_change_text', 20, 3 );

[@dater Participant 6 years ago]

Or use bbp style pack >= v4.0.1
Thanks!