Hi all - Is there a way to limit the search feature to something like trust level, so that unregistered users can not access it and thus must sign up and login to use search?

[이미지] codinghorror: You can hide it with CSS if you like. There are classes for anon users. Ok cool and good to know, thanks. I’m not familiar with the classes so I’ll have to look 'em up!

Why would this be a desirable thing to do?

Ok so I take that as a no! :wink: Yet a good question - here are few reasons, quickly off the top of my head (but actually not the motivation for the OP) and I’d be sure happy for others to chime in if they see value. Pros Entice users to signup and engage, extra feature/bonus - added value. In…

If your site is available publicly and crawled by search you’re just driving users to use Google to find things on your site. I can’t think of one site where search being hidden behind user registration has compelled me to sign up. It just comes across as user-hostile.

Limit search avabilbility based on trust level or something similar

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 4월 17, 2019, 8:58오후 4

You can hide it with CSS if you like. There are classes for anon users.

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Limit search avabilbility based on trust level or something similar

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