Hi there,
First I would like to thank you very much for the amazing forum plugin that you build. It's truly a superb piece of work and my subscriber are loving it.
My forum here https://safga.eu/community is 100% private. But I recently figured out that visitors could access the members list by typing the appropriate url https://safga.eu/community/members and then click on the users and see their stats. This is against the privacy policy I have concluded with my customer.
I would like to know if there is anyway I could restrict the visitor from accessing these urls. I tried some plugins, but they seem either too big or too complex to handle. Is there a simple code that I could inject in functions.php ?
Many thanks in advance for your answers.
Stay safe
Cédric from France
Hi @cedluck,
If you don't want, you can hide members and member profiles.
1. In Forums > Usergroups admin page, edit the Guest usergeoup and disable these permissions:
- Front - Can view members
- Front - Can view profiles
- Front - Can view member activity
- Front - Can view member subscriptions
2. Then Edit other Usergroups and uncheck the "Display on Members List" option
3. then go to Forums > Settings > Features admin page and disable the "Enable User Profile Page indexing" option
Thank You, Martin, that went very well.
Just a last little detail: the "our newest member" does show the name of the latest subscriber and I don't want that either. Can I do something about that?
Put this CSS code in Dashboard > Forums > Settings > Styles Tab > Custom CSS Code textarea. Save it, delete all caches, go to forum front-end and press Ctrl+F5 to reset browser cache:
#wpforo #wpforo-wrap #wpforo-footer .wpf-stat-other span:nth-child(2){display: none !important;}
Thank you @martin
Sorry for the delay in answering but as you know we're all in a difficult situation at this time. I had anticipated your solution and already put a CSS patch in the Custom CSS code textarea you mentioned.
This is what I put and this worked perfectly well :
#wpforo #wpforo-wrap #wpforo-footer .wpf-stat-other span a[title] {display: none;pointer-events: none;}
Though this solution does prevent from discovering some of my subscribers names on the front-end, some smart hackers could still access it by looking at the markup with their browser dev-tools. Maybe you guys could figure out some features in some other evolution of wpForo that really not generate the code and respect a perfect anonymity. Mind that this is just a suggestion and not a demand, I'm perfectly satisfied with your product and so are my subscribers.
I hope you guys are all well
CedLuck