Allow public viewing with hidden profiles #1080

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OVERLORD · 2026-02-04T23:41:38+03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-04 23:41:38 +03:00

Originally created by @craftbyte on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019).

Describe the feature you'd like
Allow public viewing of the wiki, but don't allow displaying metadata for pages (Author, revision, ...) as well as browsing users of a wiki.

Describe the benefits this feature would bring to BookStack users
This feature would allow IT departments and similar to publish documentation to the world, while preserving privacy of the members of the IT team.

Originally created by @craftbyte on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019). **Describe the feature you'd like** Allow public viewing of the wiki, but don't allow displaying metadata for pages (Author, revision, ...) as well as browsing users of a wiki. **Describe the benefits this feature would bring to BookStack users** This feature would allow IT departments and similar to publish documentation to the world, while preserving privacy of the members of the IT team.

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2026-02-04 23:41:41 +03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-04 23:41:45 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Mar 13, 2019):

Thanks for the suggestion @craftbyte.

I understand your use-case but I think this would take the permission system to a level of granularity that I'd prefer not to achieve.

Instead this would probably be a use-case for the theming (View override) system. I'll leave this open as a reminder to circle back to this once the theming system is formalised.

If you'd like I could give an overview of how you could achieve this now but it's a kind of at-your-own-risk kind of thing and will require some manual work as you journey through BookStack updates.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Mar 13, 2019): Thanks for the suggestion @craftbyte. I understand your use-case but I think this would take the permission system to a level of granularity that I'd prefer not to achieve. Instead this would probably be a use-case for the theming (View override) system. I'll leave this open as a reminder to circle back to this once the theming system is formalised. If you'd like I could give an overview of how you could achieve this now but it's a kind of at-your-own-risk kind of thing and will require some manual work as you journey through BookStack updates.

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-04 23:41:48 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Nov 8, 2022):

I'm going to go ahead and close this off since this could now be achieved via the visual theme system.

This would be the view to override.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Nov 8, 2022): I'm going to go ahead and close this off since this could now be achieved via the [visual theme system](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/blob/development/dev/docs/visual-theme-system.md). [This would be the view to override](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/blob/development/resources/views/entities/meta.blade.php).

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Reference: starred/BookStack#1080