Invisibility Cloak - Vanilla Success
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p>The <strong>Invisibility Cloak</strong> addon allows you to hide your public <strong>Higher Logic Vanilla</strong> 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 <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">noindex</code>, <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">noarchive</code>.</p><p><strong>✔️ TIP</strong>: This is particularly useful if you want to be able to view your community as a guest (typically for theming and UX testing). </p><h2 data-id="enable-the-addon">Enable the addon</h2><p>Invisibility Cloak is available at all plan levels, <strong>but must be enabled by Vanilla staff</strong>. Contact Vanilla Support to have it enabled.</p><h2 data-id="robots.txt">Robots.txt</h2><p>When Invisibility cloak is enabled, <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">yourcommunity.yoursite.com/robots.txt</code> will only contain: </p><ul><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">User-agent: *</code></li><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">Disallow: /</code></li></ul><h2 data-id="invisible-or-private">Invisible or private?</h2><p>If you're looking to hide your community from <em>all </em>guests, not just search engines and bots, you should consider the Private Communities feature instead. Check out the article below to learn more.</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"By default, users who don't have an account or who aren't logged in to your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community can still view content (but not participate). If your organization would like to implement additional security to prevent these users from browsing your Vanilla community entirely, the Private Communities…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/VWGAXAF5OFCO\/microsoftteams-image.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/99","embedType":"link","name":"Private Communities - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/99" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/99 </a> </div><p><br></p> </article> </main>