Remove link from content header

Question

The website I'm building has a lot of content that I do not want linkable to the actual node. Is there a way to remove the link in the content headers?

Answer 1

There are a lot of different methods for doing this.

The basic idea is to detect the content type using one of a few methods and calling drupal_not_found(). When doing this, I typically set the pathauto for these to no-view/[nid], and then detect the request_uri in a hook. There are some variations, but the all do something really similar.

However, there is a newish module called Rabbit Hole that eliminates the need for custom modules and provides a lot of flexability to how you hide the content. I had been working on a general use module that did something similar, and abandoned developing it when I found this. From the project page:

[It] works by providing multiple options to control what should happen when the node is being viewed at its own page. You have the ability to

• Deliver an access denied page.
• Deliver a page not found page.
• Issue a page redirect to any Drupal path.
• Or simply display the content (regular behavior).

This is configurable per content type and per node. There is also a permission that lets certain roles override Rabbit Hole completely.