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Plugin which allows administrators to control the display of topic replies to guest viewers, showing a custom editable message to guests. Guests must register & sign-in to be able to view the replies. Can be set on all or specific forums. Topic exceptions can be made using a comma-separated listing of the topic IDs which will not be affected. Developed & tested on IPS 4.1.6.1, and actively being tested on 4.1.7 Beta  
 

Hi all,
Trying to make Pages similar in usability as Joomla, I suggest to include more templates for database, categories and listing templates. The category listing template is really ugly, they're articles, not a blog! 
I suggest to include
a) The "recipes" and "release notes" should be included as default in every IPB Pages installation. It will not harm to add a lot of ways to show the information.
b) Category listing should have options like database's  article template  (category 3 column feature image).  Some very nice things were done by users, why dont include them?


c) Import/Export for data OR move content between databases.
Pages has a lot of potential, good for the admin, but regarding look & feel you must learn template syntax to do something nice.
Best Regards!

I found it, its under the system app and search permissions for guests. I realized this after seeing that the tags pages were search results. google sees these are 404s if you don't enable this. Its good for internal linking. I don't really like guests searching but in this case, I need the SEO. I decided to use flood control for guests and set it for 25 sec. I changed the language settings for the error page they get when they have to wait to:
Please wait {# [1:second][?:seconds]} before attempting another search. Avoid waiting the extra time by logging in or registering as a member of our community.
I figure maybe that'll prompt registrations.