Unpublish/draft language pages URL is still acessible

[lucashfreitas]

Plugin version: 4.4.5.

Hi There,

We want to partially add content for another language but keep the pages unpublished until we have completely finished and are ready to push it live.

I have a website that has English and Portuguese language version. English is the main language and we started to add content for Portuguese in some pages. Even-though those pages are unpublished and in draft mode, the URL https://mywebsite.com/pt/page is still accessible and google is indexing it. I was expecting that the website returns a 404 as the page is unpublished/draft in Portuguese.

Due this it doesn't seem possible to keep two languages having one of them unpublished/draft.

The solution for us was to remove completely all the Portuguese version for the pages, then if we access https://mywebsite.com/pt/page* it finally returns a 404 instead of loading the fallback english version.

I tried to go to global language settings and disable the fallback but it didn't work, second language pages that are unpublished/draft can still be accessed by URL and the content fallbacks to english.

Thanks,

[tractorcow]

Hi @lucashfreitas , you might find it easier to add the FluentFilteredExtension, which allows you to enable pages in each locale via a simple checkbox list.

You will need to update to fluent 5, but it's not a high-risk upgrade, and has minimal breakage from 4.x, but it'll give you much better functionality.

[lucashfreitas]

Hey @tractorcow - thank you very much for the quick response. I will try it out!