Unprotect A Page

[fruzzlies]

Hi,

I have a forum and I don't want it protected at this time by s2Member. I wanted to at first, but for some reason, people who had access no longer have access. This is what the message is in the bar: join-here?s2member_seeking=page-11&s2member_level_req=1 - I've unprotected the page, there is nothing that I can see protecting but it keeps sending people to the join here page. How can I fix this? I want people to see the forum, they just can't post unless they have a membership. It was fine until I tried to protect it and now I can't get it back. Help...

[artEV]

Just to be sure you don't have 11 in this field (see attached image)?
Do you have conditionals in the content of this 'forum' page?

[fruzzlies]

I had completely removed that prior to posting here and looked back again and again, but I just couldn't get page to show for members, it just kept going back to the join page. It's all set now, as far as I can see. I logged out of the browser and back in and it worked. Sometimes, this stuff can be so confusing.

I really want to lock this page from anyone being able to click the links unless they are a member. I really don't want to hide it as as people read, I want them to join. Changes of them joining without what's being talked about is probably slim so I want them to see it, but I'm trying to figure out how to let them see but not be able to click links unless they are a member. Would you have any idea on how I'd go about this?

Thanks for your response!!

[artEV]

Glad you fixed it.

Do you mean like see the forum main page, but not be able to go into the individual forum categories and/or threads? This might require a fair bit of customization or simply using the URI restrictions method, depending on your forum software.

Which forum plugin are you using anyways?

[fruzzlies]

Thank you so much for your help!!

I want them to see the forum, categories, threads etc... but not click the links. If that's not possible to do, I'd like to keep a couple of the forum categories themselves from being opened by non-members. I tried to block those already by s2Member (first tags and then categories), prior to blocking the forum completely, but without success. And then I tried to lock the forum and ran into the issue I first wrote about.

I'm using Mingle Forum. I like the looks of it soooo much better than buddy press.

Again, I really appreciate your help! Thank you!!

[artEV]

Ok so to clarify - you want them to basically see everything on the forum, EXCEPT actually clicking into the topics to view what people are discussing in a thread.

I'm using Mingle Forum too and share your sentiments
It has a Usergroup function, which allows certain forum categories to be restricted to just certain user groups you created. Unfortunately, you need to manually add users into a usergroup.

I have an idea though but it might require some modification to the Mingle Forum code.
In the code, a S2M conditional could be pulled in to check whether a topic title is a link or just displayed as text. Give me some time, I'll take a look at it, might be something I could use too

[fruzzlies]

Yes, you are correct. I don't want them clicking the links that's about it.

So funny, I thought you might say that about the user group and I tried that but I didn't want to manually ad people. If I have to, I will as they join. Bottom line, it's no big deal just more work.

I'm so glad to find someone else using Mingle, as the Mingle forum just isn't responsive to questions. I posted a couple questions the other day and they still haven't answered. I'm curious to whether or not they are going to in the future, fix the bbcodes so they are more user friendly and put in a signature link. Oh, I just can't thank you enough.