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1.6 (last update on Oct 14, 2008)
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Date Added
9 July 2008
This is a content protection plugin ONLY for Joomal! 1.5 native, please don't install on Joomla! 1.0.x.
Login to Read Fulltext will protect your article content from unregistered (public) visitors. It will only display the IntroText together with a link to your registration page to public visitors. After login in, your registered users can read the fulltext of the article.
You don't need to insert any {} like syntax in the article to trigger this plugin. Just install and enable it, then Login to Read Fulltext plugin will start to protect all the articles on your Joomla! 1.5 website.
While human eyes will be blocked by this plugin, the spiders/crawlers from search engines will see the fulltext without any handicap and index your article content completely so that it can be found more easily.
If you want only protect certain sections or categories, you can define your ID list at the Admin side of this plugin.
You also can specify an alternative link for registration if your website is using some special registration extension or bridge URL instead of the default link in Joomla!.
New feature added: In old version, if you enabled PDF for the article, then the visitor will still get your full text by press that PDF button, though you had installed this plugin. Thanks to Oliver who reported this bug, we fixed it in v1.5 .
At last, I feel sorry to tell you that my website is in Chinese, but I am sure you can find that green button for download.
It was developed by a Chinese programmer, but has multi-lingual support. English language file inside.
Please test this plugin and send your feedback/feature request to joomlagate#gmail.com, you also can discuss this plugin on my forum at :
http://www.joomlagate.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,31/board,37.0/
Thanks.
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2008-10-15
New feature: handle uncategorized articles.
2008-10-11
Bug Fix: hide PDF button when you use this plugin to protect your full text. Otherwise visitor can get full article by press PDF button.
2008-10-10
+ New parameter: you can custom those link text and link title now, just at backend parameter page, no need to edit the language file. (Thanks to Nick)
2008-07-31
Bug Fix: Output Browser info above the article Title. You can uninstall old version and reinstall newer version but settings will lost. Or just manually comment out the code "echo $useragent" in the php file. (Thanks to Frederick Bousquie and libre)
Added : French language file (Thanks to Frederick Bousquie)
2008-07-29
SEO improvement: do not block Search Engines (Thanks to Zak)
2008-07-25
Add Italian language file (thanks to Marco Pancotti)
2008-07-12
Add German language file (thanks to olafdryja from http://joomweb.de)
2008-07-11
Bug Fix: When using 3rd party login module, this plugin can't recognize user login status. (Thanks to Suresh for feedback)
bydarkchild on October 15, 2009
I am working on a site that only shows article intros to the public and then the fullarticle to registered members. So this is a great plugin to implement that.
However there are two things I find lacking:
1. the ability to apply a css style to the link.
2. when a user licks on a login/register, he/she is not redirected back to the article h/she wants to access after logging in.
However there are two things I find lacking:
1. the ability to apply a css style to the link.
2. when a user licks on a login/register, he/she is not redirected back to the article h/she wants to access after logging in.
Owner's reply
Thanks for your interests and feedback.
1. I think if we assign specific ID/Class to the link element, then we can change the CSS.
2. This is a good feature, but it seems a little hard.
Unfortunately, the author stopped further developing of this plugin. I hope someone else can pick up and go on to improve it. We will be happy to see anyone do this, you can use the plugin name and use your own copyright if you like.
byxsolca on September 19, 2009
Hi congratulations for the plugin, very good.
I think it should block access to spiders / crawlers.
He translated into Spanish the plugin, where can I send?
Greeting from Colombia, South America
I think it should block access to spiders / crawlers.
He translated into Spanish the plugin, where can I send?
Greeting from Colombia, South America
Owner's reply
Thank you! xsolca.
You can send your translation to my email: joomlagate@gmail.com .
I think the author had added the feature to block the spiders. I will confirm this soon. If not, we will try to add it. Thanks.
bykeynet on July 31, 2009
My client loves the simplicity of the rule - below the red line - private, above public. They find it easy to author articles as a result.
A couple of small issues:
- the issue mentioned in the review about search engines, bit of an issue with paid-for/private content.
- Secondly, the "login to read more" diverts the unregistered user to the "register" page. But if you have disabled registration globally (as people have to pay via a non-web process), Joomla gives a 403 message. You can configure a custom login page as a workaround, but this means the user doesn't "click through" to his desired article after logging in.
I made a version that solves both issues, and emailed it to the developer - it sets the link to login and a return page after login to the desired article, and there is a new option to enable or disable searching by Google etc.
HTH!
A couple of small issues:
- the issue mentioned in the review about search engines, bit of an issue with paid-for/private content.
- Secondly, the "login to read more" diverts the unregistered user to the "register" page. But if you have disabled registration globally (as people have to pay via a non-web process), Joomla gives a 403 message. You can configure a custom login page as a workaround, but this means the user doesn't "click through" to his desired article after logging in.
I made a version that solves both issues, and emailed it to the developer - it sets the link to login and a return page after login to the desired article, and there is a new option to enable or disable searching by Google etc.
HTH!
bymariuscmr on September 5, 2008
If you make the content user restricted and Search Engine indexable then I'm going to read the cached content kept by the SE. I recommend you to disallow searching spiders to crawl the restricted articles indeed.
Owner's reply
Very good idea. Maybe some webmasters want their articles be searchable. So a better solution is, we make it as an option. It is up to you to choose whether you allow the Search Engine index the full text or not. We wil try to implement this soon. Thanks for your support.
bydjtrouten on July 13, 2008
This is a great solution for the webmaster who wants to restrict access to content based on user level. It works very simply. Just install it, and select the categories that should have restricted access. You don't need to drop tags into each story -- access restrictions takes place at the category level.
When content is restricted, the introtext is still visible to the user, followed by a link urging them to log in to read more. This is better than simply making the content invisible, since it lets you show non-members the breadth of content you have available while still requiring registration to read more.
I used to use a mambot called "accesstotext" for this, but it didn't work with Joomla 1.5 and the developer seems to have dropped off the radar. "Login to Read Fulltext" does the same thing, but works perfectly with Joomla 1.5.
I contacted the developer and asked if this could be developed to restrict access based on usergroup (author, etc.). Within 24 hours he responded with a modified version that does just that. Between this plugin and Joomla's built-in restrictions for registered vs. unregistered, I actually have three easy-to-use access levels: guest, registered, and whatever level is set in "Login to Read Fulltext." I have some content that everybody can read, some content that only registered guests can read, and some that is avaiable only to "members" of my site -- people I've added to the "author" group.
Thanks for a great tool!
When content is restricted, the introtext is still visible to the user, followed by a link urging them to log in to read more. This is better than simply making the content invisible, since it lets you show non-members the breadth of content you have available while still requiring registration to read more.
I used to use a mambot called "accesstotext" for this, but it didn't work with Joomla 1.5 and the developer seems to have dropped off the radar. "Login to Read Fulltext" does the same thing, but works perfectly with Joomla 1.5.
I contacted the developer and asked if this could be developed to restrict access based on usergroup (author, etc.). Within 24 hours he responded with a modified version that does just that. Between this plugin and Joomla's built-in restrictions for registered vs. unregistered, I actually have three easy-to-use access levels: guest, registered, and whatever level is set in "Login to Read Fulltext." I have some content that everybody can read, some content that only registered guests can read, and some that is avaiable only to "members" of my site -- people I've added to the "author" group.
Thanks for a great tool!