Rheddy Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 During a previous version of IPB, I think it was during the 3.x series versions, I was able to exclude certain forums from visitors and guests. It was a way to draw more interest in visitors to register having member's only forums. I've tried looking under "Search" and "Search Engine Optimization" and I've even tried looking under the forums themselves but I've been able to find anything to exclude certain forums from the search results. I'm hoping that someone here has a solution to this or maybe I'm looking in the wrong places in ACP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 It’s just part of each forum’s access permissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheddy Posted April 7, 2019 Author Share Posted April 7, 2019 @opentype, thanks for your help but I think I mis-communicated my problem. I know how to disable viewing the forum from usergroups. What I'm trying to do is hide these certain forums from appearing in the search results and when people click on "view new content" or "new content". Posting in these forums appears and I want to display new postings or new content in these forums from appearing. Most of my members just go straight to the "view new content" link instead of actually viewing the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 The answer still applies. What isn’t accessible to guests for example, also won’t show up in feeds or search results. Would be weird if it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheddy Posted April 7, 2019 Author Share Posted April 7, 2019 Well, the solution you offered didn't really answer my inquiry. But, thanks for the follow up answer, it deals with part of the problem, at any rate. I've been looking for a way to disappear the topics in certain forums from displaying in the search results. I'm sure someone will create a solution for it. Thanks for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawPi Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 7 hours ago, Rheddy said: Well, the solution you offered didn't really answer my inquiry. Well, that was you inquiry: Quote exclude certain forums from visitors and guests Forum permission do that and that also affects search results and view new content. Once again: You don’t have to manually remove the forums if the users aren’t allowed to read them in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 @opentype is correct - maybe his response isn't clear? What he's saying (again, which is accurate) is that if you edit a forum and remove permissions for guests (or any other group) to be able to see/read those forums, then topics and posts from those forums will not show up in streams and search results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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