XF 1.4 Hide node on forum home to guest but allow content to be viewed

[Live Free]

Is there a way to do this? I assume I need to use conditional statements, but how?

I have a forum with posts I want to remain available for search engine purposes but I want to hide the node on the forum list page, but not the node's content - but for guests. When I change the Unregistered uaergroups permissions and revoke view node but allow them to view threads it still hides threads.

What's the best way to do this?

 

[Mr Lucky]

I may be wrong about this, but as the node is a list of links to the threads, are you sure that without it, Google will still be able to find and crawl through to the actual threads?

Edit: presumably though, the sitemap will provide the links?

Also if a guest can't see the node, but finds a thread via Search engine they will get an error if they then follow the breadcrumbs back up a level

 

[Paul B]

One way of doing it would be to uncheck 'Display in the node list' for that forum.

Then create a link forum which guests do not have permission to view.

 

[Live Free]

I may be wrong about this, but as the node is a list of links to the threads, are you sure that without it, Google will still be able to find and crawl through to the actual threads?

Also if a guest can't see the node, but finds a thread via Search engine they will get an error if they then follow the breadcrumbs back up a level

I'm mostly trying to prevent existing indexed threads from becoming de-indexed. Why would they get an error? I essentially what the node to exist but just not have it display on the index page, but for guests and new members only.

One way of doing it would be to uncheck 'Display in the node list' for that forum.

Then create a link forum which guests do not have permission to view.

I think this would work. Any downside with using the link forum? Could this also be accomplished by hiding the node id on forum_list with css?

 

[Paul B]

No issues with using link forums.

You can try using CSS with the node ID and the LoggedIn/LoggedOut class.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Why would they get an error?

Maybe I am misunderstanding, bu if the guest can view a thread, but not the node that thread is in, then when they click on the link to the node which is above the thread, they would be clicking to a node that they don't have permission to view, hence the error message. It probably won't make much difference, but (among other things) for SEO purposes it is technically not good to have breadcrumbs that don't work.

 

[Live Free]

Added this to EXTRA.css and it seemed to work:

.LoggedOut .nodeList .node_125 {
    display: none !important;
    visibility: hidden !important;
}

Logged out I can't see it on forum list but can access the forum url and threads. Logged in as a New Member user group and can't see it (per forum permission settings) as intended and all other Member groups can see it.

@Mr Lucky What I'm trying to do is not prohibit them from accessing the forum or threads, but just not show the forum on the forum homepage. I think my CSS works and Brogan's solution would have worked as well (didn't want to deal with changing the link forum icon )

 

[Skyrider]

@Live Free

Curious. Can you (or anyone who happens to know) convert that css for XF2?

From what I can tell, there no function for this in XF2