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# bingles

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## Forum Replies Created

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 *   Forum: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
   
   In reply to: [Create private forum with bbpress Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-private-forum-with-bbpress-plugin/)
 *  Thread Starter [bingles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bingles/)
 * (@bingles)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-private-forum-with-bbpress-plugin/#post-2522940)
 * Correct. I may have mis-named this by calling it “private forum”.
 * The site I am working on only allows signed in users to view the forums.
 *   Forum: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
   
   In reply to: [Create private forum with bbpress Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-private-forum-with-bbpress-plugin/)
 *  Thread Starter [bingles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bingles/)
 * (@bingles)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-private-forum-with-bbpress-plugin/#post-2522938)
 * Yes I did.
 * The solution was to create a file in my theme’s folder named bbpress.php. I then
   copied the contents of my theme’s page.php file into the new file and modified
   it to only show it’s contents when a user is logged in. In my case it looked 
   like the following:
 * `if( is_user_logged_in() ) {
    get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘page’ ); } else{ _e(‘
   You must be logged in to view this page.’, ‘twentyten-child’); } Apparently the
   bbpress plugin looks in a a particular order for the template it will use (see
   [http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-do-i-choose-a-custom-template-for-the-bbpress-20-plugin](http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-do-i-choose-a-custom-template-for-the-bbpress-20-plugin)).
   I chose bbpress.php since it is the first place it looks and is clear that it
   it for this plugin.

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