Freemius

Jory Hogeveen

Joachim Jensen

DEV Institute

<p><strong>Restrict User Access is a fast and simple Membership Plugin for WordPress. Restrict your content in minutes, NOT hours.</strong></p>
<p>Quickly set up a paid membership site where your users can get different levels such as Platinum, Gold, or Free. Then, grant those levels when a user purchases a product in WooCommerce.</p>
<h3>👥 Unlimited Access Levels</h3>
<p>Users can have multiple levels, and you control how long memberships should last. When unauthorized users try to access restricted content, you can redirect them to another URL or display a teaser.</p>
<h3>⚡ Level Membership Automations</h3>
<p>Automatically add levels to your users based on something they do (Triggers) or something they are (Traits):</p>
<ul>
<li>User Registration</li>
<li>User Roles</li>
<li>Logged-in or Guests</li>
<li>WooCommerce Purchases</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads Purchases</li>
<li>BuddyPress Member Types</li>
<li>GiveWP Donations</li>
</ul>
<h3>🔒 Contextual Content Protection</h3>
<p>Prevent unauthorized users from visiting your posts, pages, or categories. You can even combine the conditions: protect all posts tagged “Premium” written by a select author.</p>
<p>The following Access Conditions are available out of the box:</p>
<ul>
<li>Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Content with Tags, Categories, or Custom Taxonomies</li>
<li>Content written by select Authors</li>
<li>Page Templates</li>
<li>Blog Page & Post Type Archives</li>
<li>Author Archives</li>
<li>Taxonomy Archives</li>
<li>Front Page, Search Results, 404 Not Found Page</li>
<li>bbPress Profiles, Forums & Topics</li>
<li>BuddyPress Profile Sections</li>
<li>Languages (Polylang, qTranslate X, TranslatePress, Transposh, Weglot, WPML)</li>
<li>Pods Pages</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that Access Conditions do not apply to content displayed in lists.</p>
<h3>✅ Grant & Deny Capabilities</h3>
<p>The easy-to-use WordPress User Manager gives you full control over the capabilities the members should or shouldn’t have. Access Level Capabilities will override the permissions set by roles or other plugins.</p>
<h3>👁️ Hide Admin Bar & Nav Menu Visibility</h3>
<p>Disable the admin bar for select levels and control what menu items members can see. You can even hide any widget area created with <a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=section&utm_campaign=rua" rel="nofollow ugc">Content Aware Sidebars</a></p>
<h3>🤖 Restrict Content from Other Plugins</h3>
<p>Restrict User Access autodetects Custom Post Types and Taxonomies created by any plugin or theme. Built-in support for some of the most popular WordPress plugins means that you e.g. can restrict access to bbPress forums or multilingual content.</p>
<ul>
<li>bbPress</li>
<li>BuddyPress</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads</li>
<li>Pods</li>
<li>Polylang</li>
<li>TranslatePress</li>
<li>WooCommerce</li>
<li>Weglot</li>
<li>WPML</li>
<li>and more …</li>
</ul>
<h3>🛡️ WordPress Security Enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>WP REST API Content Protection</strong><br />
Enforces PoLA to minimize attack surfaces and stop threat actors from harvesting your data</li>
<li><strong>How to display content in lists</strong><br />
Display excerpts only or hide content when post types are displayed in blog, archives, search results, lists, etc.</li>
</ul>
<h3>📑 Restrict Content with Shortcodes</h3>
<p>Fine-tune content visibility in your posts or pages by adding simple shortcodes:</p>
<pre><code>[restrict level="platinum"]
This content can only be seen by users with Platinum level or above.
[/restrict]

[restrict level="!platinum"]
This content can only be seen by users without Platinum level or above.
[/restrict]

[restrict role="editor,contributor" page="1"]
This content can only be seen by editors and contributors.
Other users will see content from page with ID 1.
[/restrict]

[login-form]
</code></pre>
<h3>👋 Developer-friendly API</h3>
<p>Restrict User Access makes it super easy for developers to programmatically customize WordPress access control by adding a few lines of code to theme templates.</p>
<h4>Example – Add level to current user</h4>
<pre><code>rua_get_user()->add_level($level_id);
</code></pre>
<h4>Example – Check if current user has an active level membership</h4>
<pre><code>if(rua_get_user()->has_level($level_id)) {
    //show restricted content
} else {
    //show content if unauthorized
}
</code></pre>
<p><a href="https://dev.institute/docs/restrict-user-access/developer-api/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=section&utm_campaign=rua" rel="nofollow ugc">View full RUA PHP API documentation here.</a></p>
<h3>🎛️ Premium Add-ons for Restrict User Access</h3>
<p>Complete your WordPress membership site with these powerful extensions</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="https://dev.institute/products/category/restrict-user-access/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=acf&utm_campaign=rua" rel="nofollow ugc">ACF Restriction</a></strong><br />
Restrict content that contain data from Advanced Custom Fields plugin</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://dev.institute/products/category/restrict-user-access/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=date&utm_campaign=rua" rel="nofollow ugc">Date Restriction</a></strong><br />
Restrict content based on the time it was published</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://dev.institute/products/category/restrict-user-access/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=metabox&utm_campaign=rua" rel="nofollow ugc">Meta Box Restriction</a></strong><br />
Restrict content that contain data from Meta Box plugin</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://dev.institute/products/category/restrict-user-access/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=timelock&utm_campaign=rua" rel="nofollow ugc">Timelock</a></strong><br />
Determine when to enable or disable select Access Conditions</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://dev.institute/products/category/restrict-user-access/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=url&utm_campaign=rua" rel="nofollow ugc">URL Restriction</a></strong><br />
Restrict content based on the WordPress URL, with wildcard support</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://dev.institute/products/category/restrict-user-access/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=visibility&utm_campaign=rua" rel="nofollow ugc">Visibility Control</a></strong><br />
Hide content from blog, search results, archives, custom lists, WP REST API, and more</li>
</ul>


Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection

Create Access Levels and restrict any post, page, category, etc. Supports bbPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, WPML, and more.

Syed Balkhi

Peter Wilson

<h3>Comment Moderation Role by WPBeginner</h3>
<p>This comment moderation plugin improves the comment moderation permissions on your WordPress site.</p>
<p>The new role “WPB Comment Moderator” is created on your site to allow you to give users access only to the comment moderation screen. Unlike the WordPress default settings, a comment moderator is not required to be able to author posts, so you can keep your content secure.</p>
<p>The Comment Moderator can approve, decline, or edit any comments on any post.</p>
<p>This plugin also allows your Authors and Contributors to moderate comments on the posts they wrote. That means your guest authors can continue interacting with their readers, without getting access to other articles or comments.</p>
<h3>How Do I Create a Comment Moderator User?</h3>
<p>Once this plugin is activated, simply edit a user’s profile and change their role to WPB Comment Moderator. This will grant them access only to the comment moderation screens within WordPress, keeping the rest of your site secure.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Comment Moderation Role is created by the <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WPBeginner</a> team.</p>
<h3>What’s Next?</h3>
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<ul>
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</ul>
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