Global Settings
Forum ☛ Options ☛ Global Settings administration panel is where you can set a bunch of global options for you forum.
Lock Down Forum
This option enables the Admin to completely lock the forum – in other words make it read only – although they will still be able to make posts and edits.
This option is useful for maintenance such as when the Admin wishes to ‘prune’ out old topics, re-arrange their forums or, perhaps, change their user group and permission settings.
Note that there is no need to lock the forum during an upgrade.
Auto Update
If you turn on this option, Simple:Press Forum will automatically update the QuickLinks New and Unread Post List, the New Posts and Awaiting Moderation Counters on the Admin Bar and the count of unread items in the Inbox. If you are not using these items then leave this option unchecked.
You can set the frequency of the auto-updating (in seconds). The default for a new install is 300 (5 minute intervals). It is strongly recommended NOT to set the interval to under 120 seconds and indeed a longer interval is to be preferred. Depending on your site hosting and how busy your site is this feature could be considered as resource ‘hungry’.
RSS Feeds
Simple:Press Forum supports 4 separate RSS feed options: All forums, Group of Forums, Individual Forum and Individual Topic. Individual Forum feeds can be disable/enabled on the Manage Forum page. The following options are for enabled RSS feeds.
Number of Recent Posts to feed
Set the number of items that will be sent at any one time when a feed is requested. Note that if the user does not have permissions to view a specific forum, posts from that forum will not be included in their feed. Posts awaiting moderation are also excluded until approved.
Limit to Number of Words
Post content in an RSS feed can be limited to the number of words you specify. Leaving this value at zero allows the entire post to be sent.
Feedkeys for Private RSS
This options assigns each user a unique feedkey for reading RSS feeds. This allows for private rss feeds that follow the rest of the Forum permissions checking before a feed can be viewed. If the feedkey is not present, guest permissions are used. Feedkeys will work with RSS feed readers too. The private RSS feature is not compatible with external feed urls however since they can’t provide the unique user feed key.
WP Admin Pages Access
This option allows you to block User access to the WP Admin pages.
It is also possible to block access to the WP admin based on a minimum role. When setting the minimum role, any user having that role or greater (based on cap level assigned to the role) will still be given access to the WP admin. Please note, if you set the min role to subscriber, this will effectively disable block admin.
When blocking users access to the wp admin pages, you can also specify the url that you want to redirect to such as the site home page, the forum home page, the forum profile page, other 3rd party plugin url, etc.
