landing page and menus - How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0

RE: landing page and menus

briegull — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:35:13 +0000

Never mind. Fixed it.

RE: landing page and menus

briegull — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:25:16 +0000

Oh, dear. Somehow I have made everything from me, the wp-admin, redirect to the forum when I try to edit pages or posts. I can sometimes go to www.midcoastseniorcollege.org/w-admin and get to the WP dashboard, and edit some things, but when I try to edit a page on the main website, I get redirected to the Forum. Almost anything I try to do, I get redirected to the forum!! I do not have WP redirected to the forum, I have reset and reset the caches both on the forum, and i'm supposed to have it done on Monday. HELP!!!

RE: landing page and menus

Alvina — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 09:12:37 +0000

@briegull,

I don't want the forum to be "read only" for guests because then they can see and click on the zoom links

You can make the corresponding forum private. Saying private means it’s not accessible/readable for certain forum usergroup. In your case, you can create a private forum for Guest usergroup.

You just need to edit a forum you want to make private, set No Access for Guests.

More info can be found in this article: https://gvectors.com/how-to-set-up-private-forum/

RE: landing page and menus

briegull — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:08:06 +0000

Just when I thought it was all solved. One thing we want to put in the forums is the link to the zoom sessions of each course. Also the links to the zoom recordings of the sessions. Each course page has a line or two of explanation, maybe the syllabus, and then a shortcode linking to its corresponding forum. I don't want the forum to be "read only" for guests because then they can see and click on the zoom links. In other words, I want the FORUM part in the shortcode to be invisible, but not what's above it on the same page. Is that possible? Can you think of a workaround?

RE: landing page and menus

Alvina — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:52:11 +0000

@briegull,

A couple of things I'd like to see in particular - the ability for admins to move topics around inside a forum (minor) and the ...

wpForo already has such a feature, admins can move the inside a forum. See the screenshots below:

https://www.screencast.com/t/UKL7JtBbu

https://www.screencast.com/t/S8pxq61q

ability to archive the whole forum, or does that exist and I don't know it?

Sure, you can. You should create your forum and use it.Then if you don't need to let users to do any activity on your forum, just edit forums set No Access for all usergroups, except Admins.

RE: landing page and menus

briegull — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:50:37 +0000

@alvina

I knew how to switch a theme, and I do know how to do custom css and !Important. Thanks. But I have decided to just leave the menu in the sidebar of the forum pages. Since I don't want to call attention to the forum for the general public, just for the students who've registered for classes, I'm not going to show it off here, but I am certainly going to leave a glowing review for WPForo. It is so very versatile and complete!! And the pages look beautiful. I love that we can just copy/paste word texts into the pages and keep the formatting. A couple of things I'd like to see in particular - the ability for admins to move topics around inside a forum (minor) and the ability to archive the whole forum, or does that exist and I don't know it?

Thank you SO MUCH for your patient explanations.

RE: landing page and menus

Alvina — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 07:52:11 +0000

@briegull,

Can I turn that off, do you think?

To switch on some default theme just navigate to the Dashboard > Appearance > Themes admin page.

Below is provided a tutorial on How to Properly Change a WordPress Theme, please check it: hhttps://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-properly-change-a-wordpress-theme/#:~:text=To%20do%20that%2C%20go%20to,the%20new%20theme%20in%20action.

RE: landing page and menus

briegull — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:47:13 +0000

@alvina

That's it! Thank you!! Can I turn that off, do you think? If it's not easy, I'll simply turn off the top menu and just use the WPforo sidebar for the menu. Is there any way to style that sidebar to set it off a little more visually?

RE: landing page and menus

Alvina — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:38:42 +0000

@briegull,

I have no idea why that mobilnav container is showing up. I haven't done anything to deal with mobile customization yet!!

Probably it comes from the theme you use. See the screenshot below: https://www.screencast.com/t/OUJalj7Yfw4b

For testing purposes could you please switch on some default theme and check again.

RE: landing page and menus

briegull — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:49:59 +0000

@alvina

the customization I did was simply to remove a couple of the items that i'm not using, like members. I put the wp-for widget in the sidebar, with the forum menu in it. I have no idea why that mobilnav container is showing up. I haven't done anything to deal with mobile customization yet!!