Hi Carol,

Users and robots are handled separately.

Users: the easiest way to show some content only to registered users is by putting it in specific categories, then only granting read permissions for those categories to registered users. People will have to be logged in to access them.

Robots: by default, automated entities like Google web spiders can access anything a non-logged-in user can access. They can't log into your site, and therefore can't see anything in a "registered users only" category.

You can further dictate what a bot should(n't) access in the robots.txt file and/or robots meta tags.

Also, robots see all of a document or nothing. You can't hide parts of a doc from them.

Hope that helps!

@PitaJ that's probably the most elegant way to handle it, thank you. I went ahead with forking the plugin and made it work that way, but I'll try your suggestion in a different branch. Cheers!

Upon further investigation, the code I want to update is in nodebb-plugin-composer-default (specifically, nodebb-plugin-composer-default\static\lib\composer\categoryList.js).

What's the best way to override that file? Or do I need to fork the plugin and make my own changes there?

Hi, I've got one category on my instance that requires agreement to extra terms & conditions before posting in it. That part is already handled (created a modal with a checkbox, stored the timestamp when it was checked, not allowed to post without agreeing). What I need to do now is prevent users from starting a post in another category, then switching it to the category in question.

I've set up a new Move privilege and granted it to moderators, but not standard users, for that category. (Standard users can Move to most other categories.) The only thing I can't figure out is how to apply it to the .category-list-container dropdown in the "new topic" control.

Little help? Thanks in advance!