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Media Restriction is a lightweight and powerful WordPress plugin that gives site admins full control over media library visibility. Easily restrict access to media files based on user roles, while selectively allowing individual users to bypass these restrictions.
Perfect for multi-author blogs, online course platforms, membership sites, and client-based projects — this plugin ensures that users can only access their own uploads, reducing clutter, confusion, and potential privacy risks.
Whether you’re using default WordPress roles or custom roles created by LMS, membership, or e-commerce plugins — Media Restriction works seamlessly across your site.
<h3>🌟 Features</h3>
✅ Restrict Media Access by User Role 
✅ Exclude Individuals from Restrictions 
✅ Works with Custom User Roles 
✅ Compatible with both grid and list views of the media library 
✅ Compatible with All Plugins 
✅ Clean & Simple Settings Panel
<h3>🧠 Use Cases</h3>
Online Learning Platforms (LMS): 
Prevent instructors from seeing or using each other’s uploaded course files. Allow a few trusted ones full access.
Client Sites & Freelancers: 
Limit clients to only their own media files in multisite or shared admin setups.
Multi-Author Blogs: 
Ensure each contributor only sees their own images and uploads, keeping the media library tidy and secure.
Membership or Community Sites: 
Allow members to upload profile or content images but restrict them from accessing admin uploads.
Agencies & Teams: 
Give your designers/editors restricted media access while allowing managers or team leads full access.

Media Restriction

Restrict media library access based on user roles.

LCweb

<a href="https://lcweb.it/privatecontent-multilevel-content-plugin/free-version/" rel="nofollow ugc">PrivateContent</a> born in 2012, aiming to be the best solution to restrict your website contents and a different membership platform. Different because it uses a standalone database: quicker than the normal WordPress users one and not limited by the bulky roles assignments.
To have a multi-level users database will be easy and fast, keeping your users out of the WordPress backend while creating a modern and optimized users management area in the backend.
No forced pages, no forced URLs: the plugin is designed to seamlessly work and integrate into any website.
<a href="https://lcweb.it/privatecontent-multilevel-content-plugin/free-version/" rel="nofollow ugc">CHECK THE DEMO »</a>
<h3>🌟 Main Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>User levels: unlimited. Each user can have one or multiple levels</li>
<li>Easy user management: Forget the outdated WP users management, everything is clean and fast. From admin user addition to users sort and search</li>
<li>3 user statuses: Users can be disabled without deleting them and registered users can be also placed in pending status, waiting for the admin approval</li>
<li>Contents restrictions: restrict WP pages and posts in few clicks. Bulk restrict through post categories. Precisely define which user levels can access contents. Restricted elements will be totally unreachable, also for search engines</li>
<li>User reserved page: target a container page and it will show different contents depending on the logged user. Everything under a single website URL!</li>
<li>1-click website lock: Do you need a totally private website? It only takes a click!</li>
<li>Login and registration forms: Place them everywhere you want in your website: you will never have to change your desired workflow to adapt PrivateContent</li>
<li>Registration form builder: add/remove/sort the fields as you prefer. Add text blocks and paginate fields. Finally, a modern HTML5 data validation and honeypot anti-spam</li>
<li>Blocks and shortcodes: Quickly insert your forms into your website directly through WP blocks or using the shortcode wizard</li>
<li>Import/export hub: Move users through websites, import existing WP users, export in CSV/XSLX, move the whole plugin setup </li>
<li>Style it as you prefer: Choose among six message styles and tune every aesthetic aspect to fully integrate into your website</li>
</ul>
And even if it’s a free version, each system is packed with a lot of options. 
Everything to adapt as best as possible to every website’s need!
<h3>🕒 Get started in minutes</h3>
Whether you have a large site or creating a new project, PrivateContent is ready to operate out of the box. With 6 preset styles and eventually importing existing WordPress users, your multilevel-protected website will be ready in a flash!
<h3>🌎 100% translatable</h3>
Each section is translatable: the plugin has already been (fully or partially) translated into 27 languages! 
Additionally, it is fully compatible with WPML and Polylang for dynamic strings.
<h3>📑 GDPR Compliant</h3>
The plugin fully satisfies the most recent law requirements in terms of data protection and users management. For example, there is a dedicated module to let users delete their profiles autonomously.
<h3>⌨️ Dev oriented API and hooks</h3>
PrivateContent is extremely flexible and ready to be extended almost in any way you could imagine. The <a href="https://lcweb.it/products-overview/#pc_suite" rel="nofollow ugc">official premium add-ons</a> offers incredible features for specific needs, but if you are a developer there’s a <a href="https://lcweb.it/privatecontent/public-api" rel="nofollow ugc">dedicated documentation</a> guiding you step-by-step to build your systems on top of the PrivateContent engine!
<h3>🚀 PrivateContent Free version is just the beginning</h3>
Since 2012, the plugin has been constantly improved and extended, becoming a real reference in the WordPress world when it comes to protect WordPress website contents. Here’s a summary of what you get with the <a href="https://lcweb.it/privatecontent-multilevel-content-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">premium version</a>:
Additional core systems
<ul>
<li>Lightbox engine</li>
<li>Native <a href="https://be.elementor.com/visit/?bta=1930&brand=elementor" rel="nofollow ugc">Elementor</a>, Divi, WPBakery Builder widgets integration</li>
<li>Google reCaptcha anti-spam integration</li>
</ul>
Users membership
<ul>
<li>Multiple registration forms</li>
<li>Advanced users search with direct search-to-export</li>
<li>Users action tracking through Google Analytics or User Activities add-on</li>
<li>WordPress roles emulation to integrate with specific systems (eg. WooCommerce dashboard)</li>
<li>User sessions control (no concurrent login)</li>
<li>Preset/fixed contents for Users reserved page with advanced themes/builders integrations</li>
</ul>
Contents restriction
<ul>
<li>Private block shortcode with optional warning box containing login/register buttons</li>
<li>Restrict any public custom post type or taxonomy</li>
<li>Persistent modal lightbox on page’s opening to force user’s interaction</li>
<li>Comments form hiding</li>
<li>Custom (URL-based) restriction with regular expressions support</li>
<li>Menu items </li>
<li>WooCommerce products sell lock and price hiding</li>
<li>Sidebar widgets</li>
<li>Any Elementor widget (or column or section)</li>
<li>Any Gutenberg block</li>
</ul>
Test it on the <a href="https://lcweb.it/privatecontent-multilevel-content-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">preview page</a> or also get a <a href="https://lcweb.dikelicensing.com/trial-license-request/?prod=pc" rel="nofollow ugc">7-days free trial</a>!

PrivateContent Free

Restrict pages, posts, and menus by user level or login status. Create private areas for members or logged-in users with ease and FREE!

Media Restriction vs PrivateContent Free