Hey there,

I want to prevent users from creating new topics on my forum. I have everything synced with my WP installation, so new topics are created automatically with every new post.

I guess I just want to remove the links from the forum template/theme to create new topics…is this possible?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Best Regards,

Adam

[@adamcap Member 15 years, 2 months ago]

actually I guess there is probably more to it than just removing the link…oh well if anyone has any ideas let me know

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 2 months ago]

This plugin should do just that!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/

[@adamcap Member 15 years, 2 months ago]

looks promising but says it’s only compatible up to version 0.9 and I have 1.0.

Maybe I’ll try it out anyway

[@adamcap Member 15 years, 2 months ago]

yeah it doesn’t work. oh well

all I want to do is prevent all users from starting topics on all forums, but still allow all new posts to from my blog to be imported via bb-sync and allow people to reply to them.

[@mrsparex Member 15 years ago]

If you found out how to do this ….I’d love to know the answer. I’m trying to set up a penny stock board but having mostly new topics will not work.

[@mrsparex Member 15 years ago]

On this forum were on now…you go to a topic and it has a reply box at the bottom. On my board when you click on a topic it shows a box to start a new topic? I tried playing around with the sub categories but then replies can’t be added ro posts there…I don’t know the answer. pennyforums.com

[@buddha-trance Member 15 years ago]

What you can do, is edit forum.php of your theme files and edit out

<?php post_form(); ?>

it’s at the very end, just before the call for the footer. This will display only the topics.

You also edit, in both forum.php and front-page.php

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?> — <?php bb_new_topic_link(); ?></th>

to become

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?></th>

This should do it.

[@mrsparex Member 15 years ago]

thank you

[@mrsparex Member 15 years ago]

I did this (with shaky nervous fingers) and taa daa!!! it worked. They can still click on “hot tags” and create a new topic but that’s okay…they don’t see it EVERT time now. Thanks again….

[@buddha-trance Member 15 years ago]

@mrsparex – I see, there was one more!

You can edit tag-single.php the same way as before, on these lines:

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?> — <?php bb_new_topic_link(); ?></th>

<?php post_form(); ?>

[@sexkeyfi Member 15 years ago]

thank you bro

[@nightgunner5 Member 15 years ago]

You could always use Role Manager and disable “Make new topics” for Members.

[@michael888 Participant 15 years ago]

I somehow managed to download the Read only forums plugin. Forgot how/where.

You can grab it from my server: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/bbpress/plugins/read-only-forums.zip

The only thing I found was that it didn’t remove the header (“New Topic in this Forum”) for read only forums. Oh well – it still works, which is grand.

[@softechnos Member 12 years, 7 months ago]

Hey Guys,

I am using the latest version of bbpress and I want to stop users to create topics.

[@leezig Participant 11 years, 10 months ago]

This seems to do the trick…

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