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How do I block access to all members in a group?
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Glen Scott
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Jun 26, 2018 - 4:23 am

Hi,

I have the following scenario:

* Guests - have no access to forum

* Members - have access to forum

This works fine, but I now have a new user group, called "Special" that I want to also have NO access to the forum.

The problem is that members of "Special" are also Members.  I can't, as far as I can see, put in place a rule that blocks "Special" members from the forum.

 

Can anyone advise?

 

Thank you in advance,

Glen

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jun 26, 2018 - 4:38 am

Create a new permission set for your 'Special' user group that has no access to what you want and then for each forum group link the 'Special' uiser group to the 'new' permission set.

However - if this new group of members are ALWAYS going to have the same permissions as Guests then you can re-use the Guests permission set thus linking the 'Special' group to the 'Guests' permissions.

You can do this for each forum  grouping so that it is appl;ed to all forums within the group. Use the 'Add Permission' button when looking at the forum list.

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Glen Scott
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Jun 26, 2018 - 11:16 am

Hi,

 

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

 

Unfortunately, your prescribed solution does not work, unless I am missing something.

 

I believe the reason is that a user in the "Special" group is also a member of the "Members" group.  In which case, it seems the "Members" group is taking precendence and allowing the user to view the forums.

 

Glen

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jun 26, 2018 - 12:00 pm

This will be the case f you have not limited forum membership to a single user group.

Go to the forum admin > map users to user group. Ensaure the settings are correct for your three groups and turn on the option to limit users to  single usergroup membership.

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Glen Scott
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Jun 27, 2018 - 4:23 am

Fantastic,thank you - this setting looks like exactly what I need.

Before I turn that on, can you confirm what happens to existing users that are in multiple user groups?  Will I need to manually remove those myself after turning on this option?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Glen

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jun 27, 2018 - 4:34 am

If you are mapping Simple:Press User Groups to WordPress Roles (which is probably the easiest way) then you could use that same mapping screen to automatically rebuild all user accounts.

If not then it probably is manual. I do hope there are not many of them....

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