Allow page to change private page options

[smark-1]

Is your proposal related to a problem?

I would like to be able to disable private pages or limit the types of private pages for specific page models. I sometimes like to disable being able to change the privacy of the child pages and control the privacy from the parent page. There are other occasions as well where I would like to only allow the page's privacy to be switched to specific groups and disable the password and logged-in users. While there is in the latest version a global setting to disable the shared password option, I would like to sometimes only disable the shared password for specific page models.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like the page model to have a property and/or a method to allow overriding the default private page permissions or a flag to disable private pages.

 class BlogPage(Page):
     private_page = ["logged_in", "shared_password", "user_groups"]
 
    def get_private_page(self):
       return self.private_page

    # or
   disable_private_pages = True

   def get_disable_private_pages(self):
       return self.disable_private_pages

Describe alternatives you've considered

I looked through the documentation and could not find a simple way to do this. I asked how to do this on the wagtail slack and the suggestion I got was to see if it is possible to do this with wagtail permissions or add a signal for page save. I didn't look into these options so much, but it seems a bit more complex than what I would like.

Working on this

I would be happy to work on this myself once the issue is accepted, but I am not very familiar with how the page editor part of wagtail is developed and what skills would be needed. Is this part made with react or something else?

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[lb-]

See also some related issues.

• Add the option to disable all page-view restriction options, sitewide #11640 - maybe a good issue to understand as it relates to global settings in this area.
• Improve Security / UX of private pages using a shared password #10588 - overarching issue with a bunch of recommend improvements to private/restricted models.