# Discourse Category Lockdown

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-category-lockdown/70649
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** pavilion
**Created:** [September 23, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-category-lockdown/70649 "2017-09-23T21:26:39Z")
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### Author: ![jumagura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jumagura/32/244796_2.png) [@jumagura](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jumagura)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-category-lockdown/70649/1 "2017-09-23T21:26:39Z")

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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:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/2/7/f274755c7139a6a9415ed10015c5d77f80fe9c93.png)

“Locked down” topics will show a (configurable) icon in the topic list if the user does not have access:

 ![10](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/b/cb599d643f6f3d51c34ede7244adbca9f6f17772.png)

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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/static-pages-plugin-dl-static-pages/69698) works great for this.

**Plugin repository: [https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-category-lockdown](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-category-lockdown)**

Thanks to @DiscourseMetrics.com for funding the development of this plugin.

Authored by @david  
Now maintained by Pavilion

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