Gated Topics in Category

[ella]

	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 sign up and log in.
	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-gated-topics-in-category
	New to Discourse Themes?	Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes

Install this theme component

As this is an official theme component maintained by the Discourse team, support, bug, ux, and feature requests can be made in the respective categories here on Meta, and tagged with the appropriate theme component tag. Click on a link below to get one started.

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Here are the settings for this theme component:

Name	Description
enabled categories	Choose which categories users need to sign up for
enabled tags	Choose which tags users need to sign up for. The default is ‘gated’.
heading_text	Customize the header text
subheading_text	Customize the subheading text
signup_cta_label	Customize the signup CTA label
login_cta_label	Customize the login CTA label

Thanks to these fine folks for helping build it: @pmusaraj, @tshenry, and @CvX

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[jrgong]

Oh my god, this is epic! I already feel that this should eventually become part of core

[dokus]

Thank you for this, its more than useful because i have daily almost 80-120 000 pageviews trough organic traffic but barely new members, this is gonna change it!

Thank you again @ella

[pinkd]

This is a good job!
The design is sophisticated.

I also like guest gate.

Guest Gate Theme Component

Hello This theme component is created from Guest Gate (Sign Up Popup Plugin). It can lock topics for anon visitors with a modal and force them to Sign Up or Login. The component can be use for like an alert modal to warn visitors to sign up but they can close it (for this leave uncheck the dismissable false setting). You can also change how many topic page view open the modal etc… [Screenshot 2022-04-23 at 22.05.29] Tip: If you use the custom gate and want to hide the modal header jus…

[tmn (Tran Nhat)]

@ella

GitHub - discourse/discourse-gated-topics-in-category: This theme component restricts users from accessing topics from specific categories. A prompt will be displayed to encourage logins.

thank you, this is awesome!

[Tiago_santos]

@ella I love your plugin and I really wish it had the ability to customize the login and Signup URL, would this be possible with an update?

[digitaldominica]

Hi is it possible to set a trust level for this component? So instead of signing up I would get users to reach level 2 before viewing the content. As i’m trying to avoid users just registering for free and not participating in the forum growth overall.

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

You should have a look at this plugin Advertise activity in a private category (discourse-category-lockdown)

[David_Ghost (quimera)]

It’s works with search engine? is the content still crawlable by robots?

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

Hopefully not, because lying to Google that content is free and that’s why good to show as search result is really fast way to kill all SEO.

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

You can have your cake and eat it too - you don’t have to lie to Google in order to have it crawlable.

The Category Lockdown plugin lets Googlebot in and uses structured data to indicate that it’s paywalled content.