ageonce

<p>AgeOnce helps WooCommerce stores protect age-restricted products and content with a secure age verification flow. Use it for alcohol, tobacco, vaping, cannabis, adult content, supplements, events, memberships, or any other WordPress content that should be shown only after age verification.</p>
<p>Instead of relying on a simple “Are you 18?” popup, AgeOnce sends the visitor through a dedicated verification flow and then returns them to your store. The plugin can block WooCommerce checkout until verification is complete, protect selected posts or pages, and record verification details on WooCommerce orders.</p>
<p>You can start with the AgeOnce free plan. No credit card is required for the free tier, so you can install the plugin, connect your site, and test the full WooCommerce or content restriction flow before upgrading.</p>
<h4>Why stores use AgeOnce</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Protect checkout for restricted products</strong> – Require age verification only when the cart contains products or categories that need it.</li>
<li><strong>Avoid blanket age gates</strong> – Keep normal products and public content open while gating only the items that require verification.</li>
<li><strong>Support 16+, 18+, and 21+ rules</strong> – Configure different minimum ages for different product categories, tags, posts, pages, or custom post types.</li>
<li><strong>Keep proof on WooCommerce orders</strong> – Store the verification status, transaction ID, and timestamp with the order.</li>
<li><strong>Start free</strong> – Use the free AgeOnce plan to test real verification before moving to a paid plan.</li>
<li><strong>Use one verification flow across your site</strong> – The same AgeOnce verification can unlock checkout and protected content.</li>
<li><strong>Respect privacy</strong> – The plugin only contacts AgeOnce when a visitor chooses to verify their age.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>WooCommerce checkout age gate</strong> – Disable checkout until the customer completes age verification for restricted cart items.</li>
<li><strong>Product-level control</strong> – Mark individual WooCommerce products as requiring age verification.</li>
<li><strong>Category and tag rules</strong> – Protect products, posts, pages, and custom post types by taxonomy.</li>
<li><strong>Manual content locking</strong> – Add an AgeOnce metabox to lock individual posts or pages regardless of taxonomy.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple age thresholds</strong> – Configure 16+, 18+, and 21+ rules from the same settings screen.</li>
<li><strong>Order verification metadata</strong> – Save verification status, transaction ID, and verification time on WooCommerce orders.</li>
<li><strong>Secure OAuth flow</strong> – Uses state/nonce checks and server-to-server token exchange with AgeOnce.</li>
<li><strong>Content protection without WooCommerce</strong> – Gate posts, pages, and custom post types even if WooCommerce is not active.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>WooCommerce 5.0 or higher (for checkout protection)</li>
<li>AgeOnce account with OAuth credentials (Client ID and Client Secret)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Getting Started</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Create an account at <a href="https://www.ageonce.com" rel="nofollow ugc">AgeOnce</a> and start with the free plan or choose a paid plan</li>
<li>Go to AgeOnce Settings in the admin menu</li>
<li>Copy the Redirect URL from WordPress into your AgeOnce dashboard</li>
<li>Enter your Client ID and Client Secret in WordPress</li>
<li>Click Test connection to confirm the OAuth setup</li>
<li>Configure rules for WooCommerce products, categories, tags, posts, pages, or custom post types</li>
<li>Save changes and run one checkout or restricted content test</li>
</ol>
<p>For the WordPress setup guide, see <a href="https://docs.ageonce.com/wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">AgeOnce WordPress documentation</a>. For plans, see <a href="https://www.ageonce.com/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">AgeOnce pricing</a>.</p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>This plugin sends data to the AgeOnce service (app.ageonce.com, api.ageonce.com) only when a user explicitly starts age verification, such as clicking “Verify Age” at checkout or on restricted content. No tracking or data collection occurs without that user action.</p>
<p>The plugin does not send WordPress account passwords to AgeOnce. It may store a verification flag in the WooCommerce session or a cookie, and it may store verification metadata on WooCommerce orders. See the <a href="https://www.ageonce.com" rel="nofollow ugc">AgeOnce service</a> for privacy and terms.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin relies on third-party services operated by AgeOnce (the verification provider). They are required for OAuth login and token exchange so the site can confirm age verification.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>AgeOnce web app (app.ageonce.com)</strong> — Used for the user-facing OAuth authorization screen when someone clicks “Verify Age”. The browser is redirected here with your site’s OAuth client ID, redirect URI, a state value, and required minimum age. The user completes verification on AgeOnce; no WordPress account password is sent to AgeOnce.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>AgeOnce API (api.ageonce.com)</strong> — Used when the user returns to your site with an authorization code. The plugin sends a server-to-server request to exchange that code for an access token: it transmits the authorization code, redirect URI, OAuth state, and HTTP Basic authentication using your Client ID and Client Secret (stored in WordPress options). On success, the plugin may store a verification flag in the WooCommerce session or a cookie and optional transaction metadata for orders. This happens only during that callback after the user completes the flow.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Terms and privacy (AgeOnce)</strong> — <a href="https://app.ageonce.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of service</a>, <a href="https://app.ageonce.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy policy</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>


AgeOnce Age Verification for WooCommerce

Age verification for WooCommerce checkout and restricted content, powered by secure AgeOnce verification.

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<p>The <a href="https://restrict.io/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=plugin-page&utm_campaign=main" title="Restricted Content for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">Restrict plugin</a> makes it easy for you to control and protect access to the content of posts, pages and custom post types.</p>
<p>You can restrict, show and hide content to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Everyone (all website visitors)</li>
<li>Logged in users</li>
<li>Users with a specific role (administrator, editor, author, subscriber, etc)</li>
<li>Users with a specific <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities" title="WordPress Roles and Capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">capability</a></li>
<li>Author of a post / page</li>
<li>Tickera users (who purchased any ticket, any ticket for a specific event or a specific ticket type)</li>
<li>WooCommerce users (who made any purchase or who purchased a specific product)</li>
<li>WooCommerce users with limited time access to the content after they made a purchase of specific product</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads users (who made any purchase or who purchased a specific product)</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads users with limited time access to the content after they made a purchase of specific product</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations</h4>
<p>Restrict has seamless integrations with <a href="https://tickera.com/" title="Event Ticketing System for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">Tickera Event Ticketing System for WordPress</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/" title="Simple Ecommerce for Selling Digital Files on WordPress" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" title="WooCommerce is a powerful, extendable eCommerce plugin that helps you sell anything. Beautifully." rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a> allowing you to restrict the sensitive content of pages or posts based on criteria specific for these plugins (i.e. show content to users who purchased a specific ticket or WooCommerce product). Also, Restrict has integration with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-urls/" title="Simple URLs" rel="ugc">Simple URLs</a>. With this integration, you can create a redirection in SimpleURLs plugin and then restrict access to that redirect so that if the customer attempts to access redirect URL without fulfilling the required criteria, you can set in Restrict whether to display them a specific page or redirect them to some other, specific URL.</p>
<h3>Premium version features</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/post-types/" rel="nofollow ugc">Restrict whole post type at once</a> – the post types area of Restrict plugin allows you to select the default content visibility to the existing post types on your website.</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Restrict part or all the content</a> (Shortcodes) – Easily restrict just part of the content on any of your pages or posts making it possible to use the same page or post but with different content based on the set criteria.</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/rectricting-access-to-post-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Restricting a whole post category</a> – If you want to restrict the whole post category, the premium version of Restrict plugin takes care of that too, allowing you to easily set the criteria based on which a certain post category will be displayed or hidden.</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/restricting-visibility-of-wordpress-widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">Hide and show widgets conditionally</a> – Make your widgets show or disappear for different users! Similarly to the content restriction, you can also restrict which widgets will be shown to what user.</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/restricting-menu-items/" rel="nofollow ugc">Display menu items conditionally</a> – You can set different criteria for each menu item and make them displayed or hidden to logged in users, certain user roles, users with specific capability and even logged out users.</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/login-form/" rel="nofollow ugc">Login form anywhere</a> – Regardless of whether you’re using Gutenberg or classic editor, we made it easy for you to place the login form on any of your pages or posts.</li>
<li>Site Lock – Lock the entire website in one simple click and make it accessible only to logged in users! Similarly, you can also restrict access to REST API to only logged in users.</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/white-label-option/" rel="nofollow ugc">White label option</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Stuck? Check out the <a href="https://restrict.io/documentation/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=plugin-page&utm_campaign=documentation" title="Restrict Plugin Documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a></p>
<h4>EXTERNAL SERVICES</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://freemius.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius</a> manages upgrades to the premium license and handles premium licensing. Privacy policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Restrict for WordPress</a> pulls information for upgrading to premium tiers. Privacy policy https://restrict.io/privacy-policy/</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/easy-digital-downloads-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Digital Downloads integration</a> displays button that links to documentation page on Restrict’s website. Privacy policy https://restrict.io/privacy-policy/</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/simple-urls/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple URLs</a> displays button that links to the associated documentation page on Restrict’s website. Privacy policy https://restrict.io/privacy-policy/</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/seo-bots-and-web-crawlers-restriction-exclusion/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bots and web crawlers whitelisting</a> displays button that links to the associated documentation page on Restrict’s website. Privacy policy https://restrict.io/privacy-policy/</li>
<li><a href="https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/general/" rel="nofollow ugc">General</a> displays button that links to the associated documentation page on Restrict’s website. Privacy policy https://restrict.io/privacy-policy/</li>
<li>(https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/restricting-the-content-of-page-or-post/) displays button that links to the associated documentation page on Restrict’s website. Privacy policy https://restrict.io/privacy-policy/</li>
<li>(https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/woocommerce-integration/) displays button that links to the associated documentation page on Restrict’s website. Privacy policy https://restrict.io/privacy-policy/</li>
<li>(href=”https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/restricting-menu-items/) displays button that links to the associated documentation page on Restrict’s website. Privacy policy https://restrict.io/privacy-policy/</li>
<li>(https://restrict.io/restricted-content-documentation/tickera-integration/) displays button that links to the associated documentation page on Restrict’s website. Privacy policy https://restrict.io/privacy-policy/</li>
</ul>


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