XF 2.2 Stop non members viewing the forums

[Cashisking]

How can I stop non members viewing the forums & just have a message saying " You have to sign up to read the forums" for example.

 

[Paul B]

Remove the main view permission for the unregistered user group.

 

[Cashisking]

Remove the main view permission for the unregistered user group.

Is this the one here ?

 

[Sneep]

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Is this the one here ?

Yes. That should stop people without an account from viewing your forum. I think you can apply the settings to specific nodes but you can also add it to user groups and if you add View - Never to Unregistered no one without an account should be able to view any forums or nodes.

 

[ehd]

But keep in mind that your forum will become invisible to search engines then.

 

[Sneep]

But keep in mind that your forum will become invisible to search engines then.

It will? Because of lower traffic or they will just refuse to index it?

 

[mattrogowski]

Crawlers are just guests so if guests can't see it neither will crawlers, they won't be able to access it to nothing to crawl to index.

 

[Cashisking]

So I change it to this ? will this be right ?

 

[ŽivaAkcija]

yes

 

[Cashisking]

When I log out - I do not see the Guest message anymore

 

[Mr Lucky]

So I change it to this ? will this be right ?
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I think you can use no or never. It will stop non-members from seeing the forum. But that includes Google so will mostly not be finding threads/posts to index.

 

[Mr Lucky]

This addon may be useful, it shows the first post only to guests as a teaser so Google at least can see and index that. Then they must register to see the replies

First post only plus

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[AndyB]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/first-post-only.5976/

 

[Mr Lucky]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/first-post-only.5976/

That’s the one I thought I was linking to!