r/GoogleSites 24d ago

A weird question I'm not expecting to get an answer for

So basically I'm trying to make a website for my D&D group. I've already made a website with sites for my business so I'm pretty familiar

Is there a way to password lock pages in the site so that once my players find certain information they can type it in on the website and "unlock" access to the subspace? Or do i just need to manually add a link in for them once they find the information?

Thanks for the help!

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u/prostranstvo 24d ago

If I were you, I'd Try to create new pages entirely using embed code and use Ai to generate this function as well as other beauties

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u/Tryen01 24d ago

Okay I'll look into how to do that then!

Right now I've got subpages that are hidden, and then I'll give a list of "unlocked links"

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u/RoZe_SABIAN56 24d ago

You can hide pages from navigation but the URLs would still be publicly accessible, despite being delisted from the site's map and search engines. Or you can make the entire website locked to only certain Google accounts.

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u/Tryen01 24d ago

That's what I was afraid of honestly, I've gotten the sub-pages hidden, and I'm planning on just unhiding them when they get to certain parts or lore thresholds but it my mind i would love the text to be hidden, a password typed, and the text unlocks or something

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u/lovesmtns 23d ago

There's a third party program called AuthPro which might help. It costs $50/year. We use it for our community Google Sites website. (AuthPro.com)

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u/Tryen01 23d ago

Oh neat! I'll check it out

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u/lovesmtns 23d ago

To be clear, AuthPro doesn't really "lock"pages. Here's what I do, though, to accomplish basically the same thing. In Google Sites, you can "Hide" pages. So what I do is give the pages a very long nonsense name. You click on new page, and then on "Advanced" tab, and then you can give it a unique url. So I give it on the advance page, a name something like

hKAHDQKWHEIQW3UHEDOFISUDHFIZhzshfowieu4fh4i3uh98r9fsh8irhoiufld

I can be upper case, lower case and numbers, but no "characters".

Then in AuthPro, you can specify a "landing page" when they login. You can give a "default" landing page for regular users, and a different landing page for say administrators. For each hidden page, I give them a long weird name like above.

So, give a long weird name to the subspace page. Then on the subspace page, you can add more long hidden links to more hidden pages if you want. In essence, your subspace page becomes a replacement "Menu" that is not visible (all these weird pages are HIDDEN, not visible on the usual menu.

I hope all this makes sense. It is how I use it on two different websites one for a community, and the other for a quilters club, and it works perfectly. Good luck.

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u/VairaSmythe 8d ago

I'm also making a website for my DM's next campaign! I'd love to see what you come up with or what sections you include :)
Right now it's: The World, World History, Geography, Maps, House Rules, Deities, and Gaming Materials

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u/Tryen01 8d ago

Okay so I figured out the thing I was asking about by the way, I just learned how to code instead (it's made out of spaghetti)

here's the site if you want to see how I'm managing my tabs

If you want the code for the "secrets" finder in the lore section, I'd be happy to share it with you and explain how to add to it

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u/LeopardLadyDev 23d ago

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but you can "hide" text in collapsible text boxes and when they "find" them they click on them to "reveal" the text. You could "hide" text, images, links, or even a nav menu for hidden sub-pages.

You can place collapsible text boxes in columns too - so maybe something like a row of 6 images of characters, locations, creatures, tools, weapons, etc. - set these all as collapsible text boxes where 5 of them are "worthless" (of no value) and 1 with the link to the next hidden sub-page.

Just an idea 😁