This plugin allows you to restrict access to topic pages in a category. Topic titles will still show up in topic lists, search, user activity & digest emails. This is a great way to advertise the activity in a “members-only” category, which may charge for access.
It IS NOT designed to keep the contents of the category 100% private - if someone is determined enough they will be able to piece together the content from search results.
Each category has a couple of new settings in the Security tab:
Once clicked, unauthorised users will be redirected to a defined URL (e.g. your payment gateway). This link can be internal or external. The static pages plugin works great for this.
just checked in on this plugin (which looks exactly like what i’ve been looking for) and it looks like the build is failing. anyone using in production?
You need to change your category’s security settings so everyone can ‘see’ but only those in the correct group can create topics, here’s how mine is set up:
If I remove the everyone can see setting, the category is no longer visible to the non-member user. So, the behavior is as if there was no Category Lockdown plugin active.
There are no errors in the log. Could it be that I’m missing another setting to get this to work?
The subscriptions plugin should already be doing that. Its tightly integrated with discourse groups which is tightly integrated with category security settings.
I’ve been looking for a plugin that does almost exactly this (and didn’t realize it existed!). Can you clarify what this statement means though? Just that the thread will be indexed in Google?
If a user not in the group or a user who isn’t logged in navigates to the thread, they will always go to the payment gateway (or whatever link), right?
I was missing the obvious and didn’t have this checked at the bottom of the category settings:
