Hi All,

I had a website with multiple groups and forums, public, private and hidden.

The hidden group is for invited members only to share sensitive information using the group’s hidden forum.

I need the ability for people within this hidden group/forum to be able to search its contents.
1. I made a test post in the hidden group’s forum.
2. I logged in as anstrong>a admin/member of the hidden group
3. I used the “Search Forums” box and searched for the test post
4. Test post was found. Excellent
5. I then logged in as a non-member of the hidden group. This member cannot even see the hidden group in the listings.
6. I used the “Searched Forums” box like before and searched for this test post
AND IT APPEARED! So now a non-member can find sensitive information via the search forum box.

What have I done or do I need to do, to make the contents of the Hidden Group/Forum only searchable to members?

Side Note: Ideally I would like a search box within the Hidden Group/Forum as going back to the forums page to use the Search Forums box is tedious.

Please help 🙁

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 9 months ago]

sorry, can you be clear, this is JUST using the search box on forum pages – yes ?

if so

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back