WP V. 3.9.1
bbPress v 2.5.4

I’ve been banging my head against the wall on this one.

Here is what I need to do:

I have users who need to register for different forums. Each specific forum has restrictions. I am using the S2Member plugin. I can with their shortcodes restrict content within a page. I then can restrict a forum listing when I use a bbPress short code within a page.

The problem is that bbPress dynamically creates topic pages, thus I can not put any shortcode logic in to restrict who sees the topics.

S2Member has some code that works to restrict content with a function. However, using bbPress conditional tags don’t work. I can use the native conditional tags which do.

Below is my code that I can’t seem to get working:

add_action ("wp", "my_custom_capabilities");

function my_custom_capabilities ()
	{
	if(bbp_is_topic_tag('Global'))
		{
		header ("Location: ".S2MEMBER_MEMBERSHIP_OPTIONS_PAGE_URL);
		exit();
		}
	}

Ideas?!

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

There are all sorts of backdoors that a ‘page/post’ restricting plugin doesn’t cover for bbpress

For instance :

search is usually forum wide
http://www.mysite.com/topics
http://www.mysite.com/replies
looking at topics/replies created in a user profile
recent topics widget
recent replies widget

all usually just bypass a plugin written for pages.

which is why I wrote the private groups plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

There is no reason why it shouldn’t work alongside your members with members protecting your pages & posts, and private groups protecting your forums.

BUT you do have to set users up to see restricted forums, and this is manual. It is quick to do (just a setting within the user settings), but if you have an automated joining process, then you would need to add a manual step (or write some code!)

[@killerrabbit2 Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

Robin you are the woman. Awesome. This is just what I needed.

With S2Member I was able to find a way to protect topics made in the backend but if a participant creates a topic on the front end I can’t protect it.

A much deserved donation is coming your way.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

Hey thanks, glad its working for you !

Name is gender neutral I know, but I’m the male version 🙂

[@killerrabbit2 Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

Whoops, I thought I might have made that mistake. 🙂

Thanks again.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

No problem, glad to help !

[@killerrabbit2 Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

Enjoy your donation. 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 6 months ago]

Thankyou !!