Make complete community accessible only to registered users

Product Support

AI-generated summary

The community wants to restrict access to discussions for unregistered users. joa searched for a global setting but couldn’t find one. bts suggested using the login required setting, which joa confirmed is the correct solution. Alternatively, ondrej suggested setting the forum to private in the setup wizard.

After enabling the login required setting, joa found the resulting start page to be unwelcoming and inquired about customizing it. featheredtoast provided the solution, directing joa to customize the login_required.welcome_message or welcome_message_invite_only text in the admin panel (admin -> customize -> text).

1

My community has decided they want to only allow people to read the discussions if they registered.

Is there a global setting for it? I searched through the settings but didn’t find anything.

I‘m aware that I can configure the access levels for all categories and could set it to tl0, but

  • that will make the Homepage and „latest“ just appear empty without explanation
  • I can’t do it for the „Uncategorized“ category
  • it’s difficult to do it for the „Meta“ category, as I‘d have to create a new category and move all existing topics.
2

Yes I believe you’re looking for the setting called login required — that should do the trick globally, no category-specific access levels required!

3

How about setting the forum (in the setup wizard) to private?

4

Is this the same as the login required setting?

5

Thank you, that’s what I was looking for but didn’t find it (searched for “registered“ instead of “login“)

6

Ok, that works great but is ugly. ^^

Is there a way to customize the Startpage to include a more welcoming Text/experience? not even the About-Us page is visible from the new startpage.

7

customize it here: admin → customize → text

login_required.welcome_message (or welcome_message_invite_only depending on how you set it up) is the message displayed.