Hello! I am looking for documentation on how to put my community site in read only. We are planning a migration and need have the site to allow login, but so that users can’t post. I believe it is found in Admin > Backups > Enable Read-Only (screenshot attached) Can someone point to the documentat…

[image] Willie_Turney: We are planning a migration and need have the site to allow login, but so that users can’t post. Users who are logged in can read, but new logins are not allowed when you’re in read-only mode. I don’t know where there is any documentation. If you are moving from disco…

Thanks @pfaffman ! To confirm, the “Enable read-only” button will put the entire site in read only for all users who are logged in, but new users won’t be able to log in? If that is the case, that should work as we moving to a new platform and the site will only need to be in read-only mode for less…

[image] Willie_Turney: the “Enable read-only” button will put the entire site in read only for all users who are logged in, but new users won’t be able to log in That is correct. Be careful with this, as it applies to all users including admins. If an admin logs out, they won’t be able to log…

If you only want to prevent people from posting while they still need to be able to log in, and if you’re capable of installing plugins, you might want to take a look at our prevent-posting plugin: GitHub - communiteq/discourse-prevent-posting · GitHub . You can choose whether you want to allow PM’s…

And we will be working on this for our roadmap! :tada::partying_face::bottle_with_popping_cork: See here: [image] Partial read-only mode Feature I think we should add this to our roadmap @sam and here: [image] Discourse Version 3.0 Partial read only…

Documentation on putting my community site in Read Only

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osioke (Osioke Itseuwa) January 18, 2022, 6:25am 6

And we will be working on this for our roadmap!

See here:

and here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Is there an option to prevent all posts or turn login off? Product Support	10	1383	July 20, 2020
Maintenance page Product Support	3	613	October 17, 2023
Partial read-only mode Feature read-only	14	3153	November 10, 2023
Lock entire site Product Support	1	783	December 22, 2020
Read Only Modes in Discourse Site Management how-to , explanation , read-only	11	2724	May 1, 2026

Documentation on putting my community site in Read Only

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