Fully Private Categories/Posts

[venil7]

I appreciate this has been asked many times, and I found lots of posts asking for this feature, and even Github issue (https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/743)

None of the above however explains how to achieve it: I simply want private forum - no posts (or even categories) can not be seen unless you are logged in

Any help is appreciated

[baris]

You can remove the find and access privileges for all categories from the guests group. That way only logged in users will see/access the categories.

[venil7]

@baris that's helpful, thank you

[Bri]

I have my forum set up in such a way:

• <url>/admin/general/navigation
  • You have to click on all the categories you only want displayed to logged in users
• <url>/admin/manage/categories/
  • You have to go to each category's edit page and turn off all access to guests under the privileges section

[asdfasdfasdf]

For future reference, this is what you have to do now:

<url>/admin/manage/privileges/
Change "Configuring privileges for..." from "Global" to each category. You can then remove all "Guest" privileges.