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.

Blair Williams

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<p>Members is a roles and capabilities based WordPress membership plugin. It gives your users the ultimate member experience by giving you powerful tools to add roles and capabilities and assign them to your users.</p>
<p>Members allows you to set permissions to restrict content on your site by providing a simple user interface (UI) for WordPress’ powerful roles and capabilities system, which has traditionally only been available to developers who know how to code this by hand.</p>
<h3>Plugin Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Role Editor:</strong> Allows you to edit, create, and delete roles as well as capabilities for these roles.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple User Roles:</strong> Give one, two, or even more roles to any user.</li>
<li><strong>Explicitly Deny Capabilities:</strong> Deny specific capabilities to specific user roles.</li>
<li><strong>Clone Roles:</strong> Build a new role by cloning an existing role.</li>
<li><strong>Role Import / Export:</strong> Export all roles and Members settings to a JSON file, export selected roles from the roles table, and preview imported roles before choosing whether to import, skip, overwrite, or rename each one.</li>
<li><strong>Content Permissions / Restricted Content:</strong> Protect content to determine which users (by role) have access to post content.</li>
<li><strong>Shortcodes:</strong> Shortcodes to control who has access to content.</li>
<li><strong>Widgets:</strong> A login form widget and users widget to show in your theme’s sidebars.</li>
<li><strong>Private Site:</strong> You can make your site and its feed completely private if you want.</li>
<li><strong>Administrator Rescue (Magic Link):</strong> If you lose access to the WordPress admin (e.g. after editing roles), you can request a secure, time-limited link by email to restore your Administrator role and Members capabilities—no support ticket or database access required.</li>
<li><strong>Plugin Integration:</strong> Members is highly recommended by other WordPress developers. Many existing plugins integrate their custom roles and capabilities directly into it.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Seamless MemberPress Integration</h4>
<p>If you’re looking to build a business out of your membership site by creating paid memberships there’s no better way than to <a href="https://memberpress.com/plans/pricing/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=integration_1" rel="nofollow ugc">use MemberPress</a>. Members and <a href="https://memberpress.com/plans/pricing/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=integration_2" rel="nofollow ugc">MemberPress</a> work together to provide the ultimate member experience and will help you start and profit from your amazing WordPress membership sites!</p>
<h4>All Add-ons are now included</h4>
<p>Members now includes ALL of it’s add-ons completely free of charge! Here are some of the awesome features they add to Members:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Block Permissions:</strong> Allows site owners to hide or show blocks based on user logged-in status, user role, or capability.</li>
<li><strong>Privacy Caps:</strong> Creates additional capabilities for control over WordPressâ€™ privacy and personal data features (GDPR).</li>
<li><strong>Admin Access:</strong> Allows site administrators to control which users have access to the WordPress admin via role.</li>
<li><strong>Core Create Caps:</strong> Adds the create_posts and create_pages caps to posts/pages to separate them from their edit_* counterparts, providing more flexible editing capabilities.</li>
<li><strong>Categories and Tag Caps:</strong> The Category and Tag Caps add-on creates custom capabilities for the core category and post tag taxonomies. This allows site owners to have precise control over who can manage, edit, delete, or assign categories/tags.</li>
<li><strong>Role Levels:</strong> Exposes the old user levels system, which fixes the WordPress author drop-down bug when users don’t have a role with one of the assigned levels.</li>
<li><strong>Role Hierarchy:</strong> Creates a hierarchical roles system.</li>
<li><strong>ACF Integration:</strong> Creates custom capabilities for the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin for managing with the Members plugin.</li>
<li><strong>EDD Integration:</strong> Integrates the Easy Digital Downloads plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
<li><strong>GiveWP Integration:</strong> Integrates the GiveWP and GiveWP Recurring Donations plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
<li><strong>Meta Box Integration:</strong> Integrates the Meta Box plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Integration:</strong> Integrates the WooCommerce plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more info, visit the <a href="https://members-plugin.com/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=learn_more" rel="nofollow ugc">Members plugin home page</a>.</p>
<h3>Like this plugin?</h3>
<p>The Members plugin is a massive project with 1,000s of lines of code to maintain. A major update can take weeks or months of work. We don’t make any money directly from this plugin while other, similar plugins charge substantial fees to even download them or get updates. Please consider helping the cause by:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://memberpress.com/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=memberpress_upgrade" rel="nofollow ugc">Adding MemberPress</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/members/reviews/?filter=5#new-post" rel="ugc">Rating the plugin</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p><a href="https://members-plugin.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read the full documentation</a></p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you need plugin support from us, you can <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/members/" rel="ugc">visit our support page</a>.</p>
<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
<p>If you’re a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on it’s <a href="https://github.com/caseproof/members" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>


Members – Membership & User Role Editor Plugin

Works fine and helped me a lot. 

Of course it can be improved, I'd suggest some checkbox to choose all options with one click. 

Cheers, 
keep the great job.

Great plugin


Easy to configure, simple to use, does the job it's supposed to do. Thank you!


Works great!

The best WordPress Plugin to manage user roles

Easy to Use

Excellent plugin


This is exactly what I needed! Works great!



This is the easiest way to add capabilities to existing roles but beware. If you start experimenting with adding a lot of capabilities to a role and forget which capabilities you added, there is no easy way (at least that I have found) for reverting the capabilities back to the way you found them. Even disabling the plugin or uninstalling it will not do the trick. A Revert button would be an awesome addition!



Also, though it says it supports multisite (WPMU / Network) sites, I cannot see how it works. It does not show a superadmin user. Nothing I have tried in terms of removing permissions does anything in the administrator role, which I assume is not superadministrator. There is no documentation on this so I am looking for another solution on multisite.


Really Awesome, but beware

The best WordPress membership and user role editor plugin. User Roles & Capabilities editor helps you restrict content in just a few clicks.

Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection vs Members – Membership & User Role Editor Plugin