[phudack7]

Im a little confused as to how to accomplish this. I have set up and styled a private forum. When visitors go to the forum, I would like there to be a login screen if they are not logged in. Currently, if I am not logged in I get a “page not found” error. I get the same page error if a user logs out. Im sure there’s a simple way to accomplish this, but I cannot figure it out.

Ive tried creating a login page using a shortcode, and it works fine…but if I go this route, how do I make it so that it automatically redirects the user to the forum once they are logged in?

Any suggestions?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

To fix when the user logs out, you could use this code. Add it into your functions.php and change $url to whatever you want as page.

function casiepa_logout ($redirect_to) {
	$url='/forums/' ;
	$redirect_to = '<a href="' . wp_logout_url( $url ) . '" class="button logout-link">' . esc_html__( 'Log Out', 'bbpress' ) . '</a>' ;
	return $redirect_to ;
	}
	
add_filter ('bbp_get_logout_link', 'casiepa_logout') ;

Pascal.

[phudack7]

Thanks Pascal. My main concern is that because its a private forum, theres no login when someone arrives there. Instead they get a ‘page not found’ error. Is there a way to have the login form appear if an unregistered user visits the forum page?

[Pascal Casier]

Different options then. You could try the below code in your 404.php file:

<?php $actual_link = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";

	$actual_link = explode('/',$actual_link);
	if($actual_link[3]=="forums") { ?>
	<h2 class="article-title"><?php _e( 'This forum is private. Please login to access this forum' ); ?></h2>
	<?php } else {?>
<img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri();?>/assets/images/404_image.png"><br>

Hope it helps…
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Or you could use a redirection plugin like mentioned on this page: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-404-plugin/

Hope it helps…
Pascal.

[phudack7]

Thanks Pascal. Both of these worked great. One last question, I have a login page that’s separate from the forum page. Do you have a code I can put in my functions file that will redirect a user to the forum page once they have logged in?

Thanks so much

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Check out ‘Peter’s Login Redirect plugin’.

I saw somebody also using this (but did not test myself):

function login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ){
    return home_url('forums');
}
add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'login_redirect', 10, 3 );

Pascal.

[lenwej]

Excellent – thanks!

[RONO2]

Pascal, so where exactly would I put those particular 3 codes at in the wordpress? or actually in the css section of the theme editor?

[RONO2]

And is there a simple way to make a register link for the forums if set to private? because there’s no way to login if they don’t register 😛

[Pascal Casier]

Code can go in functions.php of your (child) theme: https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

Pascal.

[RONO2]

got ya, and that will affect my parent forum correct? My forum isn’t a child theme. Thanks for all your help

[Pascal Casier]

Yep, what you put there is valid for your whole WordPress instance.
Pascal.

[RONO2]

For private forums, will these also create a register for the forum capability? An what is the easiest way to make a child theme?

[Pascal Casier]

Step 5 of https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/ is what you need…

Pascal.

[Robkk]

@rono2 mostly focus on this guide below.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

[abufrank]

For fixing the “page-not-found” when accessing a private forum, I found that when I placed Pascals code into the 404 page (great code by the way), the browser still flags the 404. So instead, I moved it to the functions.php file using the following:

//redirect user to log in page if accessing forum from external link
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'forum_redirect_from_external_link' );
function forum_redirect_from_external_link() {
  $actual_link = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
  $actual_link = explode('/',$actual_link);
  if($actual_link[3]=="forums" && !is_user_logged_in() ) {
    wp_redirect( home_url('your-forum-log-in-page-here') ); 
      exit;
  }
}

I hope this was constructive… 🙂

[semperaye]

I’m still getting “page not found” with abufrank’s code.

[semperaye]

Shouldn’t there be some functions code in there somewhere? I’m using the php code snippets plugin so I don’t really know how to code these things i’m just copying and pasting into that…