Disable Experience Editor for a single page

Question

I know you can disable experience editor for accounts and users through Security Editor (by hiding the buttons, etc), but is there a way to disable the Experience Editor on a page-by-page basis.

For example, let's say I have page A and page B. Page A functions like any normal page and content authors can load it in experience editor. When they navigate to page B, the experience editor ribbon follows them and load the page with the Experience Editor ribbon. But is there a way to make Page B not experience editor enabled - making the experience editor not load when users navigate to Page B - but keep it enabled for other pages?

Answer 1

As you are really just concerned with the editor's ability to be able to move / change components, I would suggest that you just use the ability of Placeholder Settings to restrict what users can design components on a page, rather than try to block access to that page in the Experience Editor altogether.

This is done by removing the Read permission for the content editors on the Placeholder Settings item used by that page. This will prevent the editors from being able to change the components, though they will still be able to edit any editable fields, if there are any.

If your Placeholder Settings are part of standard values, or just referenced by multiple pages, you will want to make sure you only affect the one page. For this, you can duplicate the settings item to create a "Restricted" version that just differs by having that permission restriction applied to it. You can then edit the page in question to override the layout and change it to use that Placeholder Settings instead of the regular one.