Matthew Muro

<p><em>Restrict Categories</em> is a plugin that allows you to select which categories users can view, add, and edit in the Posts edit screen.</p>
<p>This plugin allows you to restrict access based on the user role AND username.</p>


Restrict Categories

Restrict the categories that users can view, add, and edit in the admin panel.

Matt Martz

Andy Stratton

<p>Restrict certain pages or posts to logged in users</p>
<p>This plugin will allow you to restrict all, none, or certain pages/posts to logged in users only.</p>
<p>In some cases where you are using WordPress as a CMS and only want logged in users to have access to the content or where you want users to register for purposes unknown so that they can see the content, then this plugin is what you are looking for.</p>
<p>Simple admin interface to select all, none, or some of your pages/posts.  This now works for posts!</p>
<h3>Upgrade</h3>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
<li>Delete the previous <code>pagerestrict</code> folder from the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Upload the new <code>pagerestrict</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
</ol>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Visit Settings>Page Restrict in the admin area of your blog.</li>
<li>Select your restriction method (all, none, selected).</li>
<li>If you chose selected, select the pages you wish to restrict.</li>
<li>Enjoy.</li>
</ol>


Page Restrict

This plugin used to work great, but with WordPress 4.8+, it fails and the author hasn't provided any recourse. For shame.

Doesn't work. Author(s) refuse to support

Restrict certain pages or posts to logged in users.

Restrict Categories vs Page Restrict