Private Forum - guest no access - but still able to access attachment - General Discussions

RE: Private Forum - guest no access - but still able to access attachment

fredm — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:35:32 +0000

Thank you for the answer, I missed that post.

I understand, but still, I feel like it is a bit to complicated to make a wpforo completely private.

Great plugin anyway.

Best regards.

Sofy — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:31:02 +0000

Hi @fredm,

Please read Robert's answer here:

fredm — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:04:08 +0000

Hi,

I'm currently testing wpforo that I really like.

I want to use it on our association site and want it to be private (only for members).

I use a membership plugin for the page where the wpforo shortcode is inserted and set all forums to "no access" for guests.

It seems to work, except that if happen to have an attachment url, you can access that file via a web browser.

I understand that one might have to guess the file name to access the attachment but still... what would be a way of securing this.

Thank you