You can pin topics to stay at the top. This is possible when you create a topic (using the options available below the editor area) or by using the forum tools. If you are not familiar with these then this codex article explains them: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/faq/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-to/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-to-delete-a-topic-or-post-and-other-tools/

As to your second question – Simple:Press is template driven therefore you can add anything you like or need to the template and have it display how and where you want it. Template can be found ion the /templates folder of the SP theme you are using so you just need to decide where you want to display your link and add it as necessary.

hi

thanks for the info on the pinning .. i will give it a try …

went into the the forum setting and didnt see the template folder …

No, sorry, you misunderstood… the template is part of the theme and on your server – not in the admin settings…

by default, it would be in wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/default/templates if you were using the default theme… you would edit the file on your server… or, if you server permissions are willing, you can edit the theme files in forum – themes – theme editor…

ok great .. i will look there

i am having a problem with forum .. can i ask or do i need to post new topic??

have a forum problem … it is a class that has 3 levels

standard can post etc

auditors can post

observers can only watch and not post ..

I have dble and triple checked setting and for some reason folks are getting forums they are not members of and observers can not see heeling forum???

help please!

I am not sure I understand your 3 levels… keep in mind that permissions are cumulative with ‘best’ permission winning… so if a user is in usergroup a that cannot post, but all in usergroup b that can post, the usergroup b permission will ‘win’ as the best post…

so that means you can not have different levels???

2 posting and 1 not???

Not at all. You just need to create the user groups you need and the pemrission sets you need and te them together when defining forums.

Might be worth starting by taking a look at the ‘getting Started’ section of the codex – in particular the user group, permission and access control pages.

hi

i have 3 levels ..

full member

audit

observer

one observer is not able to view

login nancyrip and password broddiedog1

i tested my observer dumbie account and it worked fine .. matter of fact lets me post which i DO NOT want observers to do but was able to see forum fine ..

my log in info

admin

1dogwood1

please take a look and let me know what the issue is … the member is showing up fine in membership account etc ..

publishing login information on a public forum seems a but risky…?

There is not enough information in what you’re asking for that really allows me to make any useful judgement at all at the moment.

So… your term ‘level’. What does that equate to in WordPress role terms and in Simple:Press User Group terms? Have you set these up as either of these entities? And if as WordPress roles – have you mapped them to Simple:Press user groups?

And a follow up question would be hoe do your users get assignrd to these ‘levels’ of yours when being set up with their WordPress accounts?

Did you read through the access control codex article to get a basic understanding of how this works?

i thought it would help you if you could look at account .. by all means delete that post please ..

level = membership ..

they go though magic members plugin to purchase ..

i have set up a forum through simple press and

heeling 101

it has 3 user access

2 have standard uses and 1 is read only ..

i have a dumby account that i set up as the read only and i can see the forum .. a customer with the same set up can not .. i sent her info log in to you so you could see what i see … i have no idea why she cant see the forum …

i have read through your documentation and the whole this is greek to me .. totally makes no sense at all and i am getting really frustrated that i can not make heads nor tails of any of it .. i have spent 2 days trying to get this resolved ..

PLEASE HELP!!!!

I think you should bear in mind that some of the terms you are using (‘levels’, ‘heeling 101’, ‘dumby’) are total Greek to me. And I can only really help if you answer my questions so i can try and get an idea of your setup and what is happening.

I can visit the site and take a tentative look to see if I can understand what this is all about but… you appear to have given me your login details but no mention I can find of the website address.

http://classes.dogwooddogtraining.com/

so sorry ..

heeling 101 is a class

dumby account is one i use to test links, payment etc .. everyone is seeing the forum but the one member i mentioned

levels are the membership types …

anything else you need to know?

first, and this could be the problem, you are serving cached pages…

<!– Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

 Served from: classes.dogwooddogtraining.com @ 2014-03-10 19:20:54 by W3 Total Cache –>

you cannot cache the wp page the forum is on because plugins like w3 total cache think its a single page but its really many pages displayed on the single wp page… so you must tell the caching plugin to ignore the wp page the forum is on for all kinds of caching in use…

as to Dumby, why do you think it should have access to the forum??  you have four usergroups assigned to the healing 101 class…  three of them have no members:  observer healing 101, audit healing and moderators…  The only usergroup with members that has a permission on the forum is healing 101 class and dumby is not a member of that usergroup…

as Andy suggested, a good read of:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/getting-started/controlling-access/ might help…

but do need to resolve the caching of the forum page…

i appreciate you looking into this for me .. i will look into and fix the cache issue you mentioned .. as someone very new to all of this, i did not know about it until you said something .. so thank you ..

all the members are seeing the forum except the one person/member that is not .. if the user groups have no members then why is everyone seeing the forums except the one person??

i have looked at the codex and as i have said what little makes sense to me i have done .. it is very confusing ..

i understand you most likely don’t have patience to help someone like me with so little experience and knowledge but i am honestly trying to learn !!!

thank you for your help .. i appreciate your time