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Hi,

I have a (for me important) requirement and purpose of this thread is to find out, whether there exists a way to implement this with currect SP functionality.

My blog has a (payed) member section and the forum threads are only accessible to those members.

So a "normal" Wordpress registered user is not allowed to see the forum content until he upgrades to paying member.

I implement this via a S2 Members lock on the SP forum page and individual access rights that give normal wordpress user "no access" in terms of SP.

On the right column of my blog, I use the "recent post widget" to display the last 30 posts.

With Mingle, these "recent posts" were viewable even to "Guests", but when they tried to click the forum post, the S2 members lock came in and redirected their click to a special landing page, telling them to become member before they have access to the forum content.

That was a great Teaser/Marketing Tool, because it showed the outside world what is going on in the forum, without giving them access.

Unfortunately, with the SP "recent post widget", it doesnt work any more, because obviously some access logic comes in even when showing the link to the new post.

Meaning, "Guests" and "Not Member" coming by my site, now can´t see the forum activity any more! All links of recent posts are gone for them completely.

Even if I remove the S2 Members lock on the forum page, the behaviour persists, so obviously there is some SP access logic in play before, that decides whether to display the post or not.

I discover this problem just yet during the rollout phase, as because of the mingle incompatbility of the recent post widget, I was not able to test it in depth before.

Question:

Do you see a way with SP functionality to come back to the status I had before.?

I want the recent post links to be shown as a "teaser" regardless of the access rights. Only if one clicks them, it is necessary that access rights come into play and prevent the display.

If i could "deactivate" SP access logic just for the recent post widget, this would do the trick, as the S2 members lock would then come into play.

Thanks