WPLMS – How to sort topics correctly (into categories/forums) ??

[wooya921]

So I´d like to get some kind of order into the main forum of my customer´s membership area. For this, I´d like to have some sort of sub-forums so the various topics can be sorted:

• Should I just create new forums and set them as subordinated under the main forum?

Or is the possibility of sorting them into different categories better/easier to overview? Thanks for any kind of help in advance Cheers Noah

[Anshuman Sahu]

This depends on you and your site how you want the forums to be handled . It up to your choice . We would recommend you to use the sub-forums to sort the topics .

[wooya921]

Tried to explain it on the attached screenshot. It´s just about getting an order into the whole bunch of forums within our membership area & additionally making it look a bit better than it does right now hope you have some more advice on this, otherwise I´ll go with your first recommendation then    

[Anshuman Sahu]

Then please drop the idea of sub forums and create a different and unique forums . Then the forums would appear indivdually .YOu can also assign categories to your forms to indicate the essence of the forums to users .

[wooya921]

I switched to multiple forums now - but they don´t appear below the first created topic right now .. Second: the assignment of categories sounds awesome - where can I find this function? or do you mean setting it as a category overall, because then it´d be displayed like the sub topics again and that´s not my aim

[Anshuman Sahu]

Please refer screenshot  : http://prntscr.com/8quji4 Create a forum and choose the type to category it will become the category . Please note you cannot create topics in the forum of type category . It can be only used to contain sub forums .

[wooya921]

Okay thanks! So but why aren´t there any topics displayed right now even though I created several forums equal to the first one we had right from the beginning? .. I set the other topics as full topics so in fact they should be treated equally to each other and all displayed right there right? none of them is subordinated anymore - but why are they invisible then?

[Anshuman Sahu]

Can you please check if the forums and the parent forum if any are set to hidden or not which are not appearing on the your-site.com/forums page  . If they are hidden then make theme private or public . Please also share the admin credentials and site url to chcck the issue at your end . PS : mark reply as private while sharing info .

[Anshuman Sahu]

Forums generally appears in this way : All the forums appear at the forums page . then the topics that are created in those forums shows up when you opens a particular forum page .

[wooya921]

Well, I checked all the forums again and even though they´re all set as private forums without being subordinated - they´re not displayed at all. Only within the front end of an admin logged in ..

[wooya921]

https://bodywork360.com/wp-admin Admin access: n.meier password - <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">jiKo6MJ*@Y3aO6nnjQU!M(%)</span> where the forums are correctly displayed when admin is logged in   test access:   testkonto password  - <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">ffqbs8</span>     https://bodywork360.com/forums/ where the forums should be displayed, but unfortunately aren´t ..   hope you can help me with my issue - and thanks for all the help you granted me so far! I´m certainly aware that it might be stressful to answer so many questions Noah

[Anshuman Sahu]

We have disabled the "COurse forum privacy"  . Please note that if this options is enabled then the forum which is not connected to the course will not show to the user who have not taken that course . We disabled this option and the forums are  now visible to the user .

[wooya921]

awesome thanks a lot!!

[Anshuman Sahu]

Marking as resolved and closing the topic .

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