Does XF allow hiding of all posts except the 1st one?

steve_aust

Member
Hi XF users,
I am currently using VBulletin.
I currently can hide all posts in a thread, except the 1st post (as a means to increase registrations)
In other words, anyone can read the 1st post in a thread, but subsequent posts are each shown to guests as "This post hidden to guests - sign up and become a member to read (free to register)". Members can of course see the content in the post(s).

So if there are 4 posts in a thread, anyone (i.e. guest & members) can read the 1st post (the starting post) but guests see "Post hidden to guests etc." three times, for each subsequent post. Guests can however still still see the person making the post, just not the content.

I hope I have explained this clearly, it really made a difference to our registrations, as people get drawn into an interesting thread title / 1st posts, and then want to read subsequent responses / answers, so they register.

Is this in the core with XF 1.5?
 
Thanks Borbole, I guessed as much.
I guess I now have an incentive to learn XF's templating system / OOP / MVC /Zend etc. and have a crack at the mod.
On first glance, it sounds like an easy mod.
i.e. when displaying a thread (like this one) check if guest or member logged in and display post (for member) or alternatively display "sign up etc." message (for guest/robot).
I could do the mod if it was simple procedural PHP, but I've seen some of the OOP-code in the programmer forums here on XF.com and I can see there is a very steep learning curve!
 
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