Any way to Disable "New Topics"

Is there a way to disable "New Topics" from all users except Admins?

Hello

Is there a way to disable "New Topics" from all users except Admins?

If you mean that only an admin can start a new thread but members (or anyone else) can reply to it: no. This is a classical scenario for a weblog but not for a forum.

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Based on that "logic".....then the option for non registered users to be denied the ability to post new messages (or allowed to post) should not be available either. :-)
FYI, I accomplished what I was looking to accomplish.

Hello

Based on that "logic".....then the option for non registered users to be denied the ability to post new messages (or allowed to post) should not be available either.
FYI, I accomplished what I was looking to accomplish.

No, your logic fails. There is a difference between forbidding everybody except one person to open a new thread and forbid this for a group of persons (i.e. unregistered visitors). Techically it is possible and you did, but in this case you can use a blog script and allow to comment your entry. This sort of software is made for that.

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open themes/default/subtemplates/posting.inc.tpl

Find:

{config_load file=$language_file section="posting"}
{config_load file=$language_file section="thread_entry"}

Add under it:

{if $admin || $id!=0}

Find at the end of the file:

</div>
</form>
{/if}

Add under it:

{/if}

Thank you very much arye2 for the detailed response. I had already accomplished the task in a slightly different way. I am a big fan of Smarty and love this project.
I ended up adding another entry to mlf2_settings table with some extra code similar to what you provided, using the new mlf2_settings entry as to make it easy to switch this feature on/off.

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