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<p>Restrict content on your WordPress website with simple, rule-based access control.</p>
<p>ContentGate lets you control who can view your content based on login status and user roles. Whether you want to hide pages from non-logged-in users, limit access by role, or protect specific posts, ContentGate makes it easy to create clear rules and apply them instantly.</p>
<p>Set conditions once and control content visibility across your site without complex setup.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<h3>Rule-Based Content Restriction</h3>
<p>Content Restriction based on:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Login Status</strong> (Logged in vs logged out users)</li>
<li><strong>WordPress user roles</strong> (Administrator, Editor, Author, etc.)</li>
<li>Combined conditions using AND logic</li>
</ul>
<p>Create rules using a simple IF <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> THEN logic. Some examples:</p>
<ul>
<li>IF user is “Logged In” <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> access page A, B and C (logged out user cannot access A, B and C)</li>
<li>IF user role is “subscriber” or “editor” <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> can access page A, B and C (Contributor cannot access pages)</li>
<li>IF user is “Logged In” and role is “Author” <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> can access page A, B and C (Others will see content restriction message)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Apply Rules to Your Content</h3>
<p>Control access for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Entire website</li>
<li>Specific pages</li>
<li>Individual posts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Global Restriction Message</h3>
<p>Display a consistent message when unauthorized user tries accessing your restricted content:</p>
<ul>
<li>Show custom instructions</li>
<li>Prompt users to log in</li>
<li>Use smart tags for dynamic content</li>
</ul>
<p>This helps users understand why content is hidden and what they need to do next, reducing confusion and improving overall experience.</p>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<p>ContentGate uses a simple rule system:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a rule</li>
<li>Set conditions (login status, user role, or both)</li>
<li>Choose content to restrict</li>
<li>Save and apply</li>
</ol>
<p>Content visibility updates automatically based on your rules.</p>
<h3>Easy Rule Management</h3>
<p>Create and manage your content restriction rules without complexity:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add, update, or delete rules anytime</li>
<li>Supports up to 3 active rules (unlimited in Pro)</li>
<li>Clean interface focused on quick setup</li>
<li>No coding or technical setup required</li>
</ul>
<p>Designed to keep content restriction simple while giving you just enough control for common use cases.</p>
<h3>What You Can Do with ContentGate</h3>
<p>ContentGate is designed for focused content restriction use cases:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Create a Login Requirement</strong>: Require users to log in before accessing your content.</li>
<li><strong>Restrict Content by Role</strong>: Control which user roles can view specific content.</li>
<li><strong>Protect Selected Content</strong>: Restrict access to specific pages or posts without affecting the entire site.</li>
<li><strong>Restrict Your Entire Website</strong>: Make your whole website accessible only to selected users or logged-in visitors.</li>
<li><strong>Combine Conditions for Better Control:</strong> Use AND logic to apply multiple conditions together:
<ul>
<li>Logged in AND specific role</li>
<li>Logged out AND restricted content</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Who Is It For?</h3>
<p>ContentGate is ideal for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Website owners who need simple content restriction</li>
<li>Blogs that require login to view content</li>
<li>Small websites with basic access control needs</li>
<li>Private or internal websites</li>
<li>Anyone looking for a lightweight restriction solution</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why Content Restriction Matters</h3>
<p>Without proper control, content can be accessed by anyone, which may not always be intended.</p>
<p>ContentGate helps you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Control who can view your content</li>
<li>Protect sensitive or limited-access pages</li>
<li>Manage visibility with simple rules</li>
</ul>
<h3>Built for WordPress</h3>
<ul>
<li>Uses native WordPress roles and login system</li>
<li>Works with existing pages and posts</li>
<li>Lightweight and performance-friendly</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<ol>
<li>Google Fonts</li>
</ol>
<p>This plugin connects to Google Fonts to load typography for frontend display.</p>
<p>It sends the user’s IP address to Google servers when fonts are requested. This request is made when a page containing the plugin is loaded.</p>
<p>This service is provided by Google LLC:<br />
– Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms<br />
– Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
<ol>
<li>SelectWoo</li>
</ol>
<p>This plugin includes the SelectWoo library to enhance select box UI functionality.</p>
<p>SelectWoo is bundled with the plugin and runs locally on the user’s browser. No data is sent to external servers.</p>
<p>SelectWoo is an open-source library maintained by the WooCommerce team:<br />
– Source: https://github.com/woocommerce/selectWoo</p>


ContentGate – Content Restriction & Access Control by Login Status & User Role

Restrict content access on your WordPress site based on user roles or login status. Protect posts, pages, or even your entire site with ease.

Jeff Starr

<p><strong>🏆 The #1 Plugin for user-generated content</strong></p>
<p>User Submitted Posts (USP) provides a front-end form that enables visitors to submit posts and upload images. Just add the following shortcode to any Post, Page, or Widget:</p>
<p>[user-submitted-posts]</p>
<p>That’s all there is to it! Your site now can accept user generated content. Everything is super easy to customize via Plugin Settings page.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Enable visitors to submit posts from the front end of your site</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Form Fields</h3>
<p>The submission form may include any/all of the following fields:</p>
<ul>
<li>Name</li>
<li>Email</li>
<li>URL</li>
<li>Post Title</li>
<li>Post Tags</li>
<li>Post Category</li>
<li>Post Content</li>
<li>Custom Field 1</li>
<li>Custom Field 2</li>
<li>Custom Checkbox</li>
<li>Challenge Question</li>
<li>Google reCAPTCHA (v2 or v3 Invisible)</li>
<li>Cloudflare Turnstile (Invisible)</li>
<li>Post Images</li>
<li>Agree to Terms</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 The first and best plugin for user-submitted content</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Core Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Simple to set up and display the form anywhere on your site</li>
<li>Display the form on multiple posts and pages, or even site-wide</li>
<li>Redirect users to any URL or stay on current page after submitting posts</li>
<li>Set post status as draft, pending, publish, or publish after x number of posts</li>
<li>Option to receive email notifications for submitted posts</li>
<li>Customize email notifications with various post data</li>
<li>Include email links to edit and delete posts</li>
<li>Display a basic login/register/password form</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Enable your visitors to share their own posts and images</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Form Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Display form anywhere via shortcode or template tag</li>
<li>Display only the fields that you want on the form</li>
<li>Set each displayed form field to be required or optional</li>
<li>Automatic client-side form validation provided by <a href="https://parsleyjs.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Parsley</a></li>
<li>Stops spam via input validation, your choice of captcha, and hidden field</li>
<li>Choose Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, or Challenge Question</li>
<li>Choose Google reCAPTCHA v2 (“I am not a bot”) or v3 (Invisible)</li>
<li>Optionally require users to be logged in to use the form</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Dial in the perfect form for your visitors</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ More Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight, fast, and secure</li>
<li>Translated into 20+ languages</li>
<li>Option to submit posts as WP Posts or Pages</li>
<li>Provides option to enable a custom form and styles</li>
<li>Customize success, error, and file upload messages</li>
<li>Includes shortcode to display a list of submitted posts</li>
<li>Includes shortcodes to control access and restrict content</li>
<li>Includes template tags to display submitted post content</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Simple to use, lightweight, and flexible</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Image Uploads</h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable visitors to upload any number of images</li>
<li>Specify minimum and maximum number of allowed images</li>
<li>Specify minimum and maximum width and height for images</li>
<li>Automatically set submitted images as Featured Images</li>
<li>Automatically display submitted images on the front end</li>
<li>Includes template tags to display submitted images</li>
<li>Includes shortcodes to display submitted images</li>
<li>Form displays thumbnail previews of images</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 The easiest way to enable user content</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Pro Version</h3>
<p>Pro version includes many powerful features, with unlimited custom forms, unlimited form fields, multimedia file uploads, and much more. Pro features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited forms</li>
<li>Unlimited form fields</li>
<li>Unlimited file uploads</li>
<li>All field types, including textarea, checkboxes, radio, select, file(s), plus input types like text, password, url, search, email, month, time, color, date, range, number, and more</li>
<li>Build post-submission forms, user-registration forms, and contact forms</li>
<li>Build COMBO forms (e.g., forms that submit posts AND register users)</li>
<li>Supports unlimited Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Supports custom Taxonomy fields</li>
<li>Supports Custom Post Status</li>
<li>Supports Post Formats</li>
<li>Custom error messages</li>
<li>Custom redirects</li>
<li>Advanced security features</li>
<li>Advanced shortcode to display submitted posts on the front end</li>
<li>Plus everything the free version can do and more!</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>🚀 Visit Plugin Planet to <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/usp-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">learn more and get USP Pro »</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>✨ Translations</h3>
<p>User Submitted Posts supports translation into any language. Current translations include the following languages:</p>
<pre><code>Arabic                - usp-ar
Bengali               - usp-bn_BD
Chinese (Simplified)  - usp-zh_CN
Chinese (Traditional) - usp-zh_TW
Czech                 - usp-cs_CZ
Dutch                 - usp-nl_NL
French (France)       - usp-fr_FR
German                - usp-de_DE
Greek                 - usp-el
Hebrew                - usp-he_IL
Hindi                 - usp-hi_IN
Irish                 - usp-ga
Italian               - usp-it_IT
Japanese              - usp-ja
Korean                - usp-ko_KR
Norwegian             - usp-no
Panjabi               - usp-pa_IN
Persian               - usp-fa_IR
Polish                - usp-pl_PL
Portuguese (Brazil)   - usp-pt_BR
Portuguese (Portugal) - usp-pt_PT
Romanian              - usp-ro_RO
Russian               - usp-ru_RU
Serbian               - usp-sr_RS
Slovenian             - usp-sl_SI
Spanish (Spain)       - usp-es_ES
Swedish               - usp-sv_SE
Turkish               - usp-tr_TR
Urdu                  - usp-ur
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Most of the default translations are made via Google Translate. So they are automated and may be a little rough. Feel free to make your own translation as desired. Need a translation into your language? <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/support/#contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Let me know!</a></p>
<h3>✨ Privacy</h3>
<p><strong>User Data:</strong> This plugin enables users to submit post content. It collects data <em>only</em> from users who voluntarily submit content via the USP form. The only involuntary data that is collected is the IP address of the person submitting the form. The plugin provides an option to disable IP collection completely.</p>
<p><strong>Cookies:</strong> This plugin uses simple cookies to enable dynamic form functionality. No cookies are used for any other purpose.</p>
<p><strong>Services:</strong> This plugin provides an option to enable Google reCaptcha, which is provided by Google as a third-party service. For details on privacy and more, please refer to official documentation for <a href="https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google reCaptcha</a>. This plugin also provides an option to enable Cloudflare Turnstile, which is provided by Cloudflare as a third-party service. For details on privacy and more, please refer to official documentation for <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Turnstile</a>. No other outside services or locations are accessed/used by this plugin.</p>
<h3>✨ Developer</h3>
<p>User Submitted Posts is developed and maintained by <a href="https://x.com/perishable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Starr</a>, 15-year <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress developer</a> and <a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">book author</a>.</p>
<h3>✨ Support Development</h3>
<p>I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can <a href="https://monzillamedia.com/donate.html" rel="nofollow ugc">make a donation</a> or purchase one of my books:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Tao of WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Digging into WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://htaccessbook.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">.htaccess made easy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/wordpress-themes-book/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Themes In Depth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/downloads/wizards-collection-sql-recipes-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress</a></li>
</ul>
<p>And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/bbq-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">BBQ Pro</a> – Blazing fast WordPress firewall</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/blackhole-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blackhole Pro</a> – Automatically block bad bots</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/banhammer-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Banhammer Pro</a> – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/ga-google-analytics-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">GA Google Analytics Pro</a> – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/head-meta-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Head Meta Pro</a> – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/simple-ajax-chat-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Ajax Chat Pro</a> – Unlimited chat rooms</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/usp-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">USP Pro</a> – Unlimited front-end forms</li>
</ul>
<p>Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂</p>


User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End

Well done with great features and the plugin author is still involved. Well worth a donation if you use this on your site.

Incredibly useful for user submitted content

Excellent


For a free plugin this offers excellent functionality!


Super useful


Thank you very much, but why cannot safe any changes in the form settings?


Good, but cannot safe any changes ...

Enable visitors to submit posts and images from the front-end of your site. Many features including anti-spam security, content restriction, and more.

ContentGate – Content Restriction & Access Control by Login Status & User Role vs User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End