The discussion revolves around showing category headings to users who lack access to them on a Discourse forum. Richie asks if it’s possible to display category names for restricted categories to all users while still controlling access via trust levels. Stephen suggests using a theme component to add these categories to the navigation, which allows visibility without granting access. tophee clarifies that this requires manually maintaining the list in two places, but Stephen notes it avoids plugin dependencies. Richie appreciates the suggestion and decides to explore a paid solution involving theme modifications, as detailed in a linked post Richie.
Our club has various membership levels, the higher the membership level the more categories on our Discourse you have access too.
We have a handful of categories that are completely hidden to people who don’t have access to them. In here we have things like club discounts, off topic discussions we don’t want indexed by search engines, etc.
Is it possible to reveal the headings of some of these these categories to everyone (even to people not logged in), so they can see these other areas exist, but still mange access to them in the usual way? (via trust levels)
I was looking for some kind of security setting that says something like “allow everyone to see this category, but only allow trust level X to enter” ?
Sure, but unless you want to share a list of all hidden categories there’s an additional step to curate the list you want to draw attention to. It’s not a 1:1 duplication, and unlike other approaches doesn’t require a plug-in which can break.
