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Topic: Block public (direct) access to static blocks

Bas_Kling

Participant

February 20, 2022 11:28 pm

Users now have public access to static blocks. This shouldn’t be.
Please see private area for example page: both static block and web page have almost identical URL, so visitors coming back and punching in the location could get redirected to the static block.

Not so much a feature request as it is a request to fix an issue, but since this is new, I decided to post both here and as feature request
Theme version: 8.1

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Olga Barlow

Support staff

February 21, 2022 5:14 pm

Hello,

We don’t have option to hide the static blocks. Anyway, you can change the static block slug to make it different to be sure that you avoid that situation.

Regards

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Niddy

Participant

February 21, 2022 5:50 pm

I found the same issue so I installed a redirection plug-in and then easily redirect all the block pages (and headers / footers) to the homepage or elsewhere.

It’s good for the /product/ -> /product-category/ issue too. If someone tries to update the url on a product page by removing the product slug leaving category – it leads to a 404. So I redirect those properly too. Example

Change /product/beanies/product-demo1/
To /product-category/beanies/

Here’s the free plug-in I use. It’s compatible with the theme – https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

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Olga Barlow

Support staff

February 22, 2022 10:25 pm

Hello, @Niddy

Thank you for sharing this solution! Really appreciate that.

Regards

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