I’ve read the documentation, support articles, and even asked ChatGPT, no luck. I want the website to be fully accessible to the public (mainly for SEO sake), so the titles of posts should be public. However, I want to restrict the content to only registered users. I know other forums have the granular ability to do this, but I’m trying to mess with the setting in Discourse and I can’t seem to figure it out. By clicking the ‘only allow registered users’ no one can access the website without registering, which limits SEO and users just don’t know what the site has, so that feature isn’t what I’m trying to do. I just want to limit non-logged in users to see titles, and maybe number of responses, but also limit the content of the posts/comments. Any help?

There is Discourse Category Lockdown. But it is currently broken. And there is also Guest Gate Theme Component. Where you can choose how many posts users can view before the sign up gate appears. Category Previews is something similar for categories.

Hello @SeeSea welcome to Meta! :tada: Does this theme component help at all? [image] Gated Topics in Category Theme component discourse2 Summary Gated Topics in Category allows site admins to show a login prompt that covers the topic contents in specific categories or tags to encourage readers to signup/log in or join a group. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator (view in an incognito window) hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-gated-topics-in-category open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Insta… Guidance if needed: [image] Installing a theme or theme component Site Management bookmark This is a guide for installing and managing themes and theme components in Discourse. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Installing and customizing themes can significantly improve the look and feel of your Discourse site. You can easily import and manage themes and their components through the Discourse admin panel. This guide covers: Importing new themes and theme components Adding theme components to a theme Managing automatic updates Additional resourc…

Kind of. That plugin theme still lets you see the main post though (1), and users browsing the topic view can see the content preview. I was looking for something that can just completely hide/replace the content with a message telling them to register, no preview of the post. Same for the topic view. Is it possible to modify that plugin’s code to do something like that or is Discourse just not designed for that use? 1: [image]

I was about to reply but the link I was going to post Moin has just posted. I would recommend using Guest Gate as you can set it as non-dismissible for anon users. In conjunction with the other TC I linked above so you’re definitely covered when it comes to ‘forcing’ users to sign up.

[image] SeeSea: mainly for SEO sake I want to raise one concern: there is no SEO point. You want to let googlebot in and after that real users are hitting against registration/paywall. You can take time how soon Google will kill your SEO-value totally.

Preventing non-registered users from viewing posts

Product Support

SeeSea January 30, 2024, 5:52am 7

I thought about this, and you’re right. I’m just going to make login required for everyone. Thanks

Topic		Replies	Views
Only register users can see more Product Support	11	2111	January 10, 2023
Login required to see topic info Product Support	51	9194	March 31, 2021
Register or log in to see the content Product Support	1	293	April 29, 2024
Gated Topics in Category Theme component official , gated-topics	37	6727	July 5, 2026
Share single topics / categories with unregistered users Product Support	17	2045	April 14, 2020

Preventing non-registered users from viewing posts

Related topics