I’ve read the documentation, support articles, and even asked ChatGPT, no luck. I want the website to be fully accessible to the public (mainly for SEO sake), so the titles of posts should be public. However, I want to restrict the content to only registered users. I know other forums have the gran…

There is Discourse Category Lockdown . But it is currently broken. And there is also Guest Gate Theme Component . Where you can choose how many posts users can view before the sign up gate appears. Category Previews is something similar for categories.

Hello @SeeSea welcome to Meta! :tada: Does this theme component help at all? [image] Gated Topics in Category Theme component discourse2 Summary Gated Topics in Category allows site admins to show a login prompt that covers the topic contents in specif…

Kind of. That plugin theme still lets you see the main post though (1), and users browsing the topic view can see the content preview. I was looking for something that can just completely hide/replace the content with a message telling them to register, no preview of the post. Same for the topic vie…

I was about to reply but the link I was going to post Moin has just posted. I would recommend using Guest Gate as you can set it as non-dismissible for anon users. In conjunction with the other TC I linked above so you’re definitely covered when it comes to ‘forcing’ users to sign up.

[image] SeeSea: mainly for SEO sake I want to raise one concern: there is no SEO point. You want to let googlebot in and after that real users are hitting against registration/paywall. You can take time how soon Google will kill your SEO-value totally.

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SeeSea January 30, 2024, 5:52am 7

I thought about this, and you’re right. I’m just going to make login required for everyone. Thanks

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