Restricting a forum and new topics within

Hello,

We use bbpress and have forums that free subscribers have access to. We have one forum where we would like only paid members to have access to. I set this forum up and set it so only s2member level#1 users can access it. The problem we are having is when a paid member posts a topic within that forum. That new topic shows up on “Recent Topics” widget on our home page, and that new topic, when it is posted, is not restricted at all. So all free subscribers can click on that link in the recent topics widget, and see the post. It won’t be restricted unless we go into that topic and manually change it to level#1 members only. Doing this for each topic is obviously not ideal.

Is there a way where we can set only topics posted in that forum to be restricted to level 1 members automatically or do you know of a better way of making this work? Thank you!

Hi James,

I suggest using URI Restrictions for this and setting restrictions based on the URL: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions.

he problem is with each new topic that is created. There is no setting to automatically make each topic posted in that forum protected to level 1. Each topic that is posted starts off with no restrictions, until we manually go in and set the restriction.

I tested setting a URI restriction, it didn’t work. Each new topic that is posted would be a unique URI correct? So i would need to manually go in and put that unique URI in anyway right? Unless I read it wrong, i believe thats how it works.

This is the URI i put in to protect with Level #1 or higher:

/Forum/forum/forum-home/trading-lab/

This is an example of a specific post in that forum that i’m trying to protect:

https://www.ftbt.com/Forum/topic/9212-trading-lab-notes/

I would like it to protect each new post automatically. Did i set it up wrong? Sorry i’m not too good at this yet.

James,

If you want to protect all new topics, then you should add /Forum/topic/ to the Level 1 URI restriction. That will protect everything that starts with /Forum/topic/, including /Forum/topic/9212-trading-lab-notes/.

That does work to block all new topics. But we only want to block new topics in that specific forum called Trading Lab. Adding /Forum/topic/ blocks all new topics posted in all forums.

Is there any way to block only topics in the Trading lab forum which is this link?:

https://www.ftbt.com/Forum/forum/forum-home/trading-lab/

Thank you!

Hi James.

I’m not familiar with bbPress and its topic permalinks. Would all threads in that forum have something in common that is unique to that forum? For example /trading-lab/. If you have nothing you can pick from the URL that’d identify a thread in that forum, then I’m afraid it won’t be possible. But if you have something like that, then URI restriction can be used.