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...Okay, I managed to do this myself with bbPress and a few plugins. Here's how I did it, I hope this will be a help to anybody else wanting to acheive a similar thing.

1) After installing bbPress and the bbPress Gensis extend plugin, I installed the bbP Members Only plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/, I then created a test forum and topic

2) I created a page called 'member login' and put the [bbp-login] shortcode in this page (no menu link for this page)

3) I configured bbP Members Only to redirect non-logged-in users to the above page when they try to access forums

4) I created a menu item which is a custom link, directing to '…/forums'

5) I installed Peter's login redirect https://wordpress.org/plugins/peters-login-redirect/ and configured it to take users directly to '…/forums' when they log in and the home page when the log out

6) I added the Profile Builder plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/profile-builder/ which creates a front-end version of edit profile that can be added to a page via a shortcode. It also comes with a login widget and settings for hiding the admin bar or toolbar depending on the user-role

7) I created a page with the edit profile short code and added this to the menu. I used another plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-items-visibility-control/ which allows you to hide the 'edit profile' menu item from users who aren't logged in

8) I had to make a lot of changes to the bbPress default CSS, font sizes in particular. This can be done by putting a file called bbpress.css in 'themename/bbpress/css' (you will have to create the bbpress and css folders). By doing it this way, your changes won't be overwritten by bbPress updates

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5) I installed Peter's login redirect https://wordpress.org/plugins/peters-login-redirect/ and configured it to take users directly to '…/forums' when they log in and the home page when they log out

6) I added the Profile Builder plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/profile-builder/ which creates a front-end version of edit profile that can be added to a page via a shortcode. It also comes with a login widget and settings for hiding the admin bar or toolbar depending on the user-role

7) I created a page with the edit profile short code and added this to the menu. I used another plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-items-visibility-control/ which allows you to hide the 'edit profile' menu item from users who aren't logged in

8) I had to make a lot of changes to the bbPress default CSS, font sizes in particular. This can be done by putting a file called bbpress.css in 'themename/bbpress/css' (you will have to create the bbpress and css folders). By doing it this way, your changes won't be overwritten by bbPress updates

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Okay, I managed to do this myself with bbPress and a few plugins. Here's how I did it, I hope this will be a help to anybody else wanting to acheive a similar thing.

1) After installing bbPress and the bbPress Gensis extend plugin, I installed the bbP Members Only plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/, I then created a test forum and topic

2) I created a page called 'member login' and put the [bbp-login] shortcode in this page (no menu link for this page)

3) I configured bbP Members Only to redirect non-logged-in users to the above page when they try to access forums

4) I created a menu item which is a custom link, directing to '…/forums'

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I tried is_front_page() and it didn't work by the way

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Hi Brad

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean ...Did you post that in the wrong thread by mistake?

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Thanks Brad, that is what I have done for the columns, but it is not being restricted to the home page. I have other pages set up to display custom post types that are ending up in three columns with this method.

Here is the code I put in at the end of functions.php

add_filter( 'post_class', 'ca_home_post_column_class' );

function ca_home_post_column_class( $classes ) {
if (is_home() ) {
global $wp_query;
$classes[] = 'one-third';
if ( $wp_query->current_post % 3 === 0 )
$classes[] = 'first';
}
return $classes;
}

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Hi Brad, thanks for the reply.

The theme is Education Pro and it includes 'front-page.php'.

...If I include your above code in that file, I assume I'll need to remove the code that I had added to the functions.php file? What can I do about the three column posts display which I am trying to confine to the home page?

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Thanks Brad,

I did find your widget tutorial shortly after I posted this but I was having trouble because I needed the widgets to display my custom post type, a featured image and also my custom fields plus I wanted the page to display four columns of widgets.

I got part of the way there by using the Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widgets instead of user profile but it had more options than I really needed, I couldn't get it to display my custom fields and it would only display 2 widgets for some reason

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Brilliant. I now have images and can control how many posts per page. Thank you!

The only problem I have now is the one mentioned above.

...Just to add to this, it seems as though no "if ( is_home() )" conditional tags are working in my functions.php file. I have another one to remove the posts navigation from the home page that works throughout the site or not at all.

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Oh, one other issue – this is making my blog pages display in three columns as well, I'd like to display them in one column ideally and just have the home showing three columns.

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Thank you so much Brad, the column solution worked pefectly. ( I will be tackling the category thing later)

There still a slight problem in that I can't get thumbnails to display along with the posts

Also, sorry I should have mentioned this, there is a '1,2, next page' navigation at the bottom that I'd like to get rid of, I think preferably by limiting the number of posts on the home page to 3 rather than disabling the page navigation – is this possible?

Thanks

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Thanks Dave,

Yes, you are right the handle was wrong and I have now changed that. As a result I can now override the plugin css but only by putting the code in my child theme css – it is still ignoring the css file I am trying to direct it to.

So far I've not had any joy trying to add a function or an action but i will keep trying.

For your reference, this is where I got the original code from: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/101037/how-do-i-cleanly-override-a-plugins-css-with-a-child-theme

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