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.
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?
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.
Or you could use a redirection plugin like mentioned on this page: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-404-plugin/
Hope it helps…
Pascal.
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
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.
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?
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 😛
got ya, and that will affect my parent forum correct? My forum isn’t a child theme. Thanks for all your help
Yep, what you put there is valid for your whole WordPress instance.
Pascal.
For private forums, will these also create a register for the forum capability? An what is the easiest way to make a child theme?
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… 🙂
I’m still getting “page not found” with abufrank’s code.
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…
