As there is actually no way to publish translated pages individually from their main language (they always both have the same state) I thought about other ways letting authors still create multilingual content, but not yet make it available in the frontend.
A scenario here is that I often build multilingual websites, but at the day of launch, the translations are not yet ready, so to not screw with the SEO ranking, I want to deactivate the rendering of a whole language.
What would be the correct way to achieve something like that? E.g. with hooks, that soft or hard redirect to the main language version of a page if language detection or URL for a different language is accessed.
The URL for the main language, let’s say English, should still be en/, to not have to deal with redirects as soon as the second language is made public. That’s why I can’t just deactivate certain multilingual features.
Bonus point: When the pages can still be viewed in the frontend when logged in (e.g. by token check).
I don’t expect that somebody comes up with a final solution. What would help me actually is to know where to get started, which parts of Kirby, e.g. maybe hooks, should be used for that.