Hi,
Is there any way to allow Anon users to view a Topics contents, but not be able to view Posts within that Topic?
AI-generated summary
The discussion revolves around hiding posts from anonymous users within a specific topic. REALITY asks if it’s possible to allow anonymous users to view a topic’s contents but not its posts. Lilly suggests that it might be achievable with CSS or plugin trickery, but proposes an alternative solution using page publishing. This method would allow anonymous users to view the first post of a topic through a published page, even if the topic is in a secure category. However, Lilly notes that this may not be the desired outcome, as it wouldn’t allow anonymous users to see the original topic posts on topic list pages. Another potential solution proposed by Lilly involves using the whispers function, setting it to trust level 0 or 1.
i’m assuming you mean let anonymous users view topic posts (first post) but not the replies? 
i suspect it can be done with some CSS or plugin trickery but i’m not sure.
only way i can think of off hand is to use page publishing, but the topic won’t appear in a topic list for anon users, so you would have to link the published page to a topic that anon users can see. you can publish a topic post and make i viewable to all users even if the topic is in a secure category. you need to set the following admin settings:
then from a category that has it’s security settings setup so that anonymous users cannot access or see it, you can publish a public page which only shows the first post. but i suspect this is not what you are looking for and would like the original topic posts to appear as normal to anon users on topic list pages, and i don’t believe is possible without perhaps making a plug-in.
