Is there a way to hide the pages created for achievements / ranks? I know about the “Hidden?” option to hide these from users. However, I don’t want to hide them from users, I just don’t need all the excess pages created. I can create a page for each group where the user can see them all on one page. I also don’t need the excess SEO and robot crawls created from these pages.
I know I can add these pages to the Robots.txt file, but many crawlers don’t respect these settings. All of these pages create a strain on server resources and unneeded pages in search results.
To give you an idea of what I might be looking at when it comes to excess. At launch there might be 10-15 actual site pages and 100-125 achievement / rank pages. Post launch the achievement / rank page quantity could easily jump to 800+. While the actual site page quantity probably won’t exceed 30.
I do understand that the pages allow admins to enter settings for each achievement / rank (i.e. point cost, description, etc.). I’m sure other sites might want these pages to give users more information than I need to. However, it would be nice if I could alleviate this overhead on the site I’m creating.
I’m currently testing GamiPress integrated with BuddyPress.