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I think the easiest way forward here - if you are willing - is to allow me to get into the forum admin so that I can take a close look at your set-up (forums, permissions, user groups) which might be the only way I can offer good advice. I am a little confused by what I am seeing in relation to what you want to happen and I suspect you are as well to a certain extent.
if this is going to be possible please PM credentials to both myself and to 'Mr Papa'. Please include in the PM a link to your site, a link to this thread and brief reminder of the problem. And one of us will take a look for you. Don't forget to make this account a forum 'admin. It does not have to be a WP admin as well of course.
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Sounds excellent. I'm definitely confused! PM-ing now...
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take a look now (as a member) to see if this sorts it for you. I can't do that with the account you set up because, of course, now it is a forum admin I can seer everything anyway!
Without WP admin rights I can't look at the templates or edit the css but I think if you add this to the WP theme stylesheet you should get the full width you need:
#post-7421 { width: 100% }Give it a try...
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Wow! That definitely solves a whole bunch of problems! Only one thing: Guests should be able to see the Board Rules & Guidelines as well as the Intro Board, so there needs to be a redirect that takes them to Board Rules first (without allowing them to post there). If you can just explain how I do this without messing up the permissions you fixed, then I'll do it myself so I understand how it works.
The width issue is, unfortunately, one I cannot fix unless I change themes, because the theme my tech guy designed doesn't allow custom CSS anywhere. I'm not allowed access to the stylesheet editor, and I don't want to change it offline and upload it for fear of doing greater damage. I'm in the middle of redesigning the site anyway myself to run on WooCommerce, so I'll be able to fix the forum width when I do that.
Many, many thanks!
Warm regards,
Jennie
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Guests at the moment seem to be redirected to the 'Introduce Yourself' forum. I don't now how you have done that but I don't seem able to get to the group view (front page as such).
But basically - when that is removed - it sounds like for the 'Rules' forum you should perhaps change the mapping of 'guests > no access' to 'guests > read only' in the forum permissions.
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I just double-checked, and guests already have read-only access for the Rules board. I don't know why there's a force redirect to the Intro forum--I couldn't have set up anything like that, since the only redirect I have in place is for all logins to jump straight to the user's profile on the forum.
Any other ideas?
Thanks!
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Right - sorry about this but as the message at the top says I will be away for a couple of days so this may be my last post today!
The re-direct of Guests was because in the forum options the option to skip the Group View if only a single group was turned on. I don't think this is what you want so I have turned that off. So now Guests can see the forum listing as they probably should be able to.
The reason they can not view the Guidelines topic list is because the 'read only' permission set only has the 'view forum list' setting checked. In this instance you probably want to change that to 'can view forum'.
Does this get it closer to what you need?
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Yep, that worked. The only thing left that I'm still not thrilled about is the fact that even non-registered guests can see the name of the most recent post in all the boards on the forum. Is there a way to disable having the name of the most recent post displayed? I wouldn't even mind disabling it for everyone (Senior Members included), since they already get a list of most recent posts when they login.
No rush. Many, many thanks for the swift help!
Cheers,
Jennie
PS - When you have time, could you PM me the method you used to make the Mods' board completely vanish from all but mods/admins? I'd like to do the same for the 2012 Tour Group board (making it invisible to all but members of that group), and I'd like to be able to add future invisible/private boards for my online classes. Thanks!
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I probably need to read the whole thread, but 'non registered guests'??? not sure what that means... guests by definition are not registered... though I guess you be using the guests usergroup for members though not really intended for that...
As andy said, he is gone for a couple days... when I have time tonight after work, I will check on this and see if we can get the last tweak in your permissions set up for you... (After reading the whole thread
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Let's go for the second, easy question first! Go to the forum admin > Manage Forums - and bring up the forum listing. Then for your Moderators forum click on the button 'View Forum Permissions'.
You will instantly see that I simply removed the user group 'Guests' and some others from the equation. If the User Group is not in the list (along with an assigned permission Set) then those users will simply never know the forum exists. You can follow this pattern with your 2012 tour forum.
On the first question - Simple:Press is displayed using templates so - just like with the WP blog side of your site - any template can be changed as required. The Group View template is called spGroupView.php and can be found in the /templates folder of the SP theme you are using.
If you study that template for just a couple of minutes you will see that there is a section that defines the columns. One of the columns uses the function sp_ForumIndexLastPost() which is the display of the last post details. So it is easy to remove this should you wish to.
It is equally easy to add conditional coding so that only certain types of user can see it and others can not. We can advise on this if we know the details.
As always we recommend that you create your own SP theme so that any customisation is not lost during a future update. (http://codex.simple-press.com/.....g-a-theme/)
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