# 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: ![fzngagan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fzngagan/32/259349_2.png) [@fzngagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fzngagan)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-category-lockdown/70649/28 "2020-06-29T20:44:56Z")

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> [@dylanb](#):
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> 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?

Yes, but the topic entry and some bits and pieces of the content appear in the search results. If that’s ok for you, then that’s it.

Recently, I added a feature to allow category specific redirects.

If you want something more comprehensive, you can look at [Discourse Subscriptions Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-subscriptions/140818)

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