Note: I finally found discourse as a better solution to suite my needs. As a results there is no active dev on this project, but pull requests are welcome!

Private Forum Plugin for NodeBB

This module allows to lock the forum to anyone that did not have an account.

Be aware:

• No pages will be publicly accessible
• Web crawlers and bots (like google) will not be able to index the forum (except the login and register page)
• If you are using the plugin nodebb-plugin-custom-homepage and have created a custom welcome page on /, this page will be visible after a user registered itself, even if an administrator did not approve him

Bug or feature request

Please open an issue or a pull request if needed.

Old Roadmap ideas

• Implement an admin view to add and remove exception pages

Note: I finally found discourse as a better solution to suite my needs. As a results there is no active dev on this project, but pull requests are welcome!

Installation

Via npm:

npm install nodebb-plugin-private-forum

Or via the NodeBB plugin page.

Screenshots

For now there is no web view, only debug messages if nodebb is started with ./nodebb dev.