It depends…  out of the box, our themes set the members list such that members can only see other members in the same usergroups as themselves… you can of course change that…

In your sp theme (make sure you have your own vs changing ours to keep from losing  your mods on updates), edit the template file spMembersView.php…  find:

            if (sp_has_member_groups(‘usergroup’, ‘id’, ‘asc’, 15, true)) {

and change it to

            if (sp_has_member_groups(‘usergroup’, ‘id’, ‘asc’, 15, false)) {

and each usergroup will be able to see the other usergroups…

Thanks for that.  It does work if I change the template in its original location, but if I want to keep my own so it doesn’t change on updates where do I need to put it?  I tried putting it in the main theme folder but it did not work from there.

see this:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/

on how to create your own theme…  then just edit like you would ours…

Thank you.  I must say your codex is very easy to follow, even if I do need pointing in the right direction occasionally.

no worries!  we still have lots of info to get up there too…

I want to get rid of that button, I saw on previous versions of Simple Press that you could do that by unselecting it. But I don’t I don’t see that option in the current version.

Is it possible not to display the Members button on top of the forum? I would like to give my members some privacy, I am also not happy with the fact that they can see the email addresses the registered with.

Hope you can help.

You have two options for removing the members list button.

You can simply go to the permissions management for any permission sets you are using and turn off the option that allows users tied to that set to view the members list. Or – you can edit the spHead.php template and remove the display function for the button. The difference is that with the latter the button will be gone for good. With the former you, as an admin, will still see and have the button available while your members will not.

Not sure what you mean by ‘see the email addresses they registered with’. Not sure why you would be uncomfortable with people seeing their own email address…! But – that is also a permission you can turn off just like the members list. Again – you will still see email addresses as the forum admin and owner.

Might be worth your while just spending a few minutes looking at the various permissions so you can set them up as you want them.

Thank you for your help YS.

You are right, I was asking to quick, because I was al little stressed.

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No worries. It was a serious suggestion. We find people too often do not review those options and then do not get things set up as they want. Always a good idea to plan ahead and know what you are allowing your own users to do and see.