The Invisibility Cloak addon allows you to hide your public Higher Logic Vanilla community from the prying eyes of search engines and bots while you set it up. It achieves this by setting all of your community's content to noindex, noarchive.
✔️ TIP: This is particularly useful if you want to be able to view your community as a guest (typically for theming and UX testing).
Enable the addon
Invisibility Cloak is available at all plan levels, but must be enabled by Vanilla staff. Contact Vanilla Support to have it enabled.
Robots.txt
When Invisibility cloak is enabled, yourcommunity.yoursite.com/robots.txt will only contain:
Invisible or private?
If you're looking to hide your community from all guests, not just search engines and bots, you should consider the Private Communities feature instead. Check out the article below to learn more.