My plan is to leave the introductions of the articles (first paragraph) free and open access to the public, but then restrict the ability to see the full article only to paying members.
OK, this seems to be working pretty nicely.
I just went to Admin Home, selected Groups, and then selected "Create New."
From there, I just created a new group called "Premium Content" and I did not assign (meaning, I did not select any of the click boxes) to give the new group any of the previously existing Security Groups or Rights. I also did not click the box to make this new group and Admin group.
With that done, I then created a new Topic called "Premium Content" and I assigned this topic to the Premium Content group. For this topic I selected the permissions of R/E for Owner, and R for Group, but then deselected R/E permissions for both Members and Anonymous users. Therefore, the only people who should be able to access these articles are members who are assigned to the "Premium Content" group.
Then I created a test article called New Test Article for Premium Content Topic Category. If you click on that article (and if you are not logged in as a paying member of the "Premium Content" group) then you should get bounced to the front door of the website, and not be given access to the article. I logged out and tried it, and so far everything seems to be working perfectly according to plan. With regards to RSS, it seems like my concern somehow took care of itself. I just opened up my RSS feed reader and checked the feed from the website, and for some reason the new "test" article did not go out on the feed (good.) What remains to be seen is how Google handles these articles. Anyway, in the meantime, this seems to be about a 99% solution. I can now also go back and "cherry pick" selected articles from the database to update and migrate into the new "Premium Content" topic, one at a time, in order to populate the new section. Ideas? Feedback? Thoughts or suggestions? Don
www.panama-guide.comI thought you wanted the articles to be visible (titles and intros) but not readable (clicking through fails). Why are you surprised the permissions are working exactly as they are supposed to?
Hello Don,
Yes permissions are working well
If you change a story to a private topic you will loose the google indexation for that story.
::Ben
Actually the autotag plugin might be good enough. You create an autotag that takes a story ID: [premium:2009080304384954]. The code for the autotag looks at the user's permissions and if they cannot see the story the tag is replaced with a link to your (presumed staticpage) where you advertise the premium section (and with a rel="nofollow". If they can see the content, the normal article url is returned by the autotag. Your teaser article just has to include the premium autotag and the user gets the proper link automatically.