Focus Items: Remove click to close?

  • Mautic Focus Items could be an excellent way to add a content locker to your site (require users to subscribe to a list to read a post). However, it doesn’t appear that there is a way in the UI to remove click to close.

    Yes, you can use CSS to hide the close element, but users can still click into the background to close the Focus Item.

    Has anybody modified the code to remove the click to close?

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  • Plugin Author shulard

    (@shulard)

    Hello,

    This question isn’t related to the WordPress plugin, maybe you’ll find more help on the Mautic slack (https://www.mautic.org/slack) or Mautic forum (https://forum.mautic.org/).

    But I’m not really sure that using a focus item to force users to subcribe before reading a content is a nice solution :

    * If the mautic tracker is blocked by the browser (using adblocker or third party blocker), the focus item will not be shown ;
    * Even if you remove the ability to close it, users can still access the content behind the focus item because it’s already loaded in the page. Of course it’s a bit more tricky but hiding an HTML element using developer tools is not as hard as it can seems for a motivated person.
    * If the content is a private one, the web crawlers (google and others) must not access it fully… Allowing a preview indexation is a better solution for me (I’m not sure it’s relevant in your case).

    A better solution will be to use the Mautic API to retrieve user capabilities when computing the page and build a valid subscription only content with the right form to ask user registration.

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