As a webbie I want to create hidden pages that are visible only to people who have the link (restricted access). An example of a case may be the need to publish landing pages for use by advertising agencies.
Jira Story >> PLANET-3289
Password-protected content >> Release-v1-52
This idea is related to the idea “Draft” previews for colleagues without full editing rights
🗳️ SLACK VOTING – NOVEMBER 2020 🗳️
- 🙌 – 9 (from 16 to 25)
- 💚 – 6
- 🤔 – 0
💡 Idea meeting outcomes – February 2021 – It’s a GO ✅
This idea is more a “would like”more than an actual need, so not urgent. But definitely on the P4 to-do-list, as it’s not with massive complexity. Need to define when.
| RECAP from Community feedback: Think like YouTube “Unlisted” videos. Mostly 💚 .
Such pages would be excluded from the P4 Search and Search engines (e.g. by outputting a meta tag in page for Search engines to exclude it), tracking ads / Pay-per-click/conversion directly in the Global Property (via UTM tags). Would be very useful for fundraising asks for example. |
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| – Clear use case, would simplify ad-hoc campaigns
– Ideally simple solution, could be a new page type (in Default / evergreen / dropdown). – Fundraisers would love it – Would help a lot for AD campaigns – landing pages directly VS navigating the site, to avoid ppl getting lost in the site |
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| P4 tech team gut-feeling recommendation → We already exclude password-protected posts from Search results and Search engines. We could mimic that behaviour for a certain visibility status (eg. “Unlisted”). This page shall not be pulled out from Tags / categories lists. No design intervention needed. Overall Medium complexity. | ||
Discussion
Hi Berit! If you don't want unauthorized access to a page, why would you place it on P4? Why not send the ad agency a brief or email or something? Can you help me understand why you would want to have a page that doesn't show up in search results? You could flub – like, you make a page and set the URL http://greenpeace.nl/hidden/xcywwts - then email it to an agency. Technically, it would pop up if someone searched the content on the page, but users wouldn't stumble upon it otherwise.
Hi Laura, I just discovered your reply today. I want to publish ads for petition pages. So the page will be visited only by people who get served the ad. (not only by the agency itself) It's important that the page has clean data and is not visited via any other way. One of the reasons is for example that some agencies charge by result.
We usually have multiple copies of petition pages; to make a difference between (in)direct traffic from ads by agencies and traffic through unpaid promotion. I don't want the agencies' page to be visible to the general public. We are now using a workaround, but the most clean version would be to have a 'unlisted' option for each page.
I want something similar. Except I want to email gate web content or downloads (lead magnets). This will help us capture details of supporters in exchange for something they want.
Hi Berit,
We are currently reviewing this option with the tech team. I will come back to you with an answer soon.
Cheers
Will