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.

Daniel Iser

Code Atlantic

<p>Content Control is a transformative plugin, allowing you to fine-tune every aspect of your WordPress website’s content. Decide who gets to see what, where, and when – be it pages, posts, widgets, or individual block visibility using our handy shortcode. Your content, your rules, executed perfectly!</p>
<p>Content Control is intuitive and powerful, designed for all users—whether logged in, holding specific roles, or even guests. Need top-tier content restriction or a dependable access manager for your site? Look no further. We’ve expanded our controls to include Gutenberg and Full Site Editor, giving you unmatched command.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<p>Discover what Content Control brings to your table:</p>
<ul>
<li>Full control over your site’s content, restrict user access with ease!.</li>
<li>Create a <strong>Paid Membership</strong> sites using your favorite or existing ecommerce plugins.</li>
<li>Set up a seamless paywall for your content, providing teasers for users and prompting them to purchase access.</li>
<li>Per block controls for Gutenberg and Full Site Editor, including user roles, device type, and more.
<ul>
<li>Responsive block controls with customizable breakpoints.</li>
<li>Control block visibility by user status, roles, device type & more.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Restrict access to pages, posts, widgets, and individual blocks based on user status, roles, device type & more.</li>
<li>Offer membership tools for crafting membership access and members-only content.</li>
<li>Provide responsive block designs that adapt to varying device sizes.</li>
<li>Lockdown content selectively for improved user experiences.</li>
<li>Implement role-based redirections to guide users effectively.</li>
<li>Unlock the power of subscription content and monetization strategies.</li>
<li>Safeguard specific categories, tags, custom post types, and custom taxonomies.</li>
<li>Manage access to <a href="https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-attachment-pages/" rel="nofollow ugc">media attachment pages</a> for logged in/out users or specific user roles.</li>
<li>Display a custom message to users who do not have permission to view the content.</li>
<li>Display specific content on a page or post to logged in users only, specific user roles, or logged out users.</li>
<li>Redirect users without access permission to a login page, website homepage, or a custom URL.</li>
<li>Highlight subscriber-only content for premium users.</li>
<li>Use the <code>[content_control]</code> shortcode to protect content inline and cater to subscriber preferences.</li>
<li>Control widget visibility by selecting the user type that can view each widget.</li>
<li>Conditionally show coming soon or maintenance mode pages based on various rules.</li>
<li>Restrict access to your site’s REST API endpoints.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://contentcontrolplugin.com/docs/?utm_campaign=plugin-info&utm_source=readme-description&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=documentation-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Content Control Documentation</a></p>
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
<p>Content Control Pro, with advanced features like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Content Teasers for Paywalls, giving your users a sneak peek, leaving them wanting more.</li>
<li>Optimize your WooCommerce & Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) & Paid Memberships Pro experiences with advanced rules.</li>
<li>Schedule blocks, controlling content visibility timings using customizable scheduling rules.</li>
<li>Dive deeper with advanced block rules and a boolean editor.</li>
<li>Customize login, registration & recovery page urls. Custom login urls give a more personalized user experience.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://contentcontrolplugin.com/pricing/?utm_campaign=plugin-info&utm_source=readme-description&utm_medium=wordpress&utm_content=upgrade-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Content Control Pro</a></p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Content Control handles media access via content on media attachment pages but won’t restrict direct server-level access to media files.</p>
<h4>Passionately Crafted by Code Atlantic</h4>
<p>At <a href="https://code-atlantic.com" title="Code Atlantic - High Quality WordPress Plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">Code Atlantic</a>, we’re passionate about crafting tools that empower your digital journey. Content Control is a testament to our commitment to quality.</p>
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<ul>
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</ul>


Content Control – The Ultimate Content Restriction Plugin! Restrict Content, Create Conditional Blocks & More

Efficient Plugin


Excellent plugin for fine tuning who can see the various parts and pieces of your website. 


Awesome Plugin For Custom Content Access Experiences


Does what it's supposed to, very good support. 


Great plugin


Very happy with this plugin. It provides the exact functionality I was looking for! Thank you!


Exactly what I needed

Works perfectly

Restrict content based on login status, user roles, device type & more. Monetize your content with a paywall or members-only content.

Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection vs Content Control – The Ultimate Content Restriction Plugin! Restrict Content, Create Conditional Blocks & More