Hello!

I want to restrict new posts in bbpress only to moderators and admins. What is the best way to do it?

I’ve found a very simple way editing capabilities.php but I would like to avoid editing the source code.

'member' => array(

'name' => __('Member'),

'capabilities' => array(

(...)

'write_posts' => false,

Thanks.

[@livibetter Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: NoNewsPostsForMembers

Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/no-new-posts-for-members

Description: No New posts for members

*/



function NoNewsPostsForMembers($roles) {

$roles['member']['capabilities']['write_posts'] = false;

return $roles;

}



add_filter('get_roles', 'NoNewsPostsForMembers');

?>

Put it in my-plugins with any filename.php you like. Activate it. Then this should work.

[@bluegeek Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks, you rule! i’ll try it.

BTW what theme do you use at your website (forgetIT).

[@livibetter Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

I made my modifications to the original theme Kakumei. If you have any questions about my modifications, you are welcome to ask me.

[@bluegeek Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

And what about restricting only new posts in some forums (ie. in forum 1 members can start topics but not in forum 2).

Is this also easy in bbpress? (i don’t need a fancy admin configuration, just a straight plugin with hardcored values).

Thanks.

[@livibetter Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

Have you tried to search one in Extend?

If you find no plugin and you can do code, I think you can check line 18 in /bb-post.php, line 479 in /bb-includes/capabilities.php.

You need to check current user’s is allowed to start a new topic in specific forum or not in your filter hook.

Just thoughts, but should work.

PS. I think it’s better not to do too much that bbPress can’t by default, or you could suffer more after upgrading unless you completely know what you do.