i think this is an issue that needs to be fixed. i have a forum on my website that requires a member log-in to view the private forums. and when you go to the forums page, a non-member can go to the search and search for something (for instance ‘church’) and a private forum will appear. they can’t see anything in that forum without logging in, but in the case that sensitive information is on that forum, it’s private for a reason.

is there a work-around for this? i don’t want to get rid of the search bar altogether, because registered members may want to search.

thank you!!!

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 1 month ago]

I did some pretty exhaustive testing of this a couple of days ago and was not able to reproduce this behaviour. Can you give us some more details with some direct links to your site highlighting the issue.

[@wordprosystems Participant 11 years, 1 month ago]

sure thing. here’s a link to the forum page as a non-member all you can see is the description and ‘how to’ use the forum, then at the bottom you see the message “oh bother! no forums were found here” message, but right above that is the search bar. all of the topics are set to private, however if you type in, like my example in my original post, “church” you now can see topics that a member posted. if the forums/topics are set to private, how are they still searchable? it very well could be something i overlooked, but i’m worried this is a ‘flaw’ that i haven’t overlooked.

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks heaps for this, I can see what you mean and I will go do some more testing and work on a patch for it.

[@wordprosystems Participant 11 years, 1 month ago]

i don’t intend to be a nuisance, but I’m just curious as to if there is any progress on a patch or something? thank you for your time i truly appreciate it!!

[@dtmember Participant 8 years, 8 months ago]

Is there any progress on this? or how can I hide the excerpt of topic in search results? I just want to display exactly only title for each and every search results not including description, excerpt, replies and etc. Is that possible?

Hope someone can help and thanks.

[@casiepa Moderator 8 years, 8 months ago]

Hi,

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/ is what I use and it prevents the search for private forums.

Pascal.

[@dtmember Participant 8 years, 8 months ago]

Do you know how to make search results to only show title not excerpt, content etc? btw i use robkk hook fyi.

[@casiepa Moderator 8 years, 8 months ago]

@robkk ?

[@dtmember Participant 8 years, 8 months ago]

Anyone?