bobbyalcorn

<p>Restrictly™ delivers professional-grade access control without compromising your site’s speed or reliability.<br />
It enforces rule-based visibility across <strong>pages</strong>, <strong>posts</strong>, <strong>menus</strong>, <strong>Full Site Editing (FSE) blocks</strong>, <strong>search results</strong>, and <strong>REST API responses</strong>, while maintaining full compatibility with themes and page builders.</p>
<p>In the free version, access rules are driven by user roles and login status, providing a clean and reliable foundation for content and navigation control.</p>
<p>Includes <strong>Extended Visibility Filtering</strong>, which automatically hides restricted content from search results, archives, and public listings.</p>
<p>For full documentation, setup guides, and developer notes, visit the <a href="https://restrictlypro.com" rel="nofollow ugc">official Restrictly™ website</a>.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Full Site Editing (FSE) Integration</strong> – Add block-level visibility directly inside the Site Editor.<br />
Choose who can see each block (Everyone, Logged-In, Logged-Out, or Specific Roles) with optional color-coded indicators.</li>
<li><strong>Navigation Block Support (FSE Menus)</strong> – Manage visibility for navigation links, submenus, and page lists directly within the Site Editor.</li>
<li><strong>Extended Visibility Filtering</strong> – Automatically hides restricted content from:
<ul>
<li>Search results</li>
<li>Category, tag, and author archives</li>
<li>Home listings and custom queries</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>REST API Enforcement</strong> – Applies Restrictly™ visibility rules to REST API responses, automatically filtering restricted content for unauthorized users.</li>
<li><strong>Dynamic Menu Visibility (Classic Menus)</strong> – Control menu item visibility by login state or user role in the classic menu editor.</li>
<li><strong>Full, Quick, and Bulk Edit Support</strong> – Manage restrictions from any editor interface.</li>
<li><strong>Sortable, Filterable Columns</strong> – Instantly see and organize restricted items in list tables.</li>
<li><strong>Administrator Override</strong> – Allows administrators to bypass restrictions for testing.</li>
<li><strong>Divi & Page Builder Compatibility</strong> – Works perfectly with Divi and other builders.</li>
<li><strong>Performance-Focused & Secure</strong> – Built entirely on WordPress core APIs with strict sanitization and escaping.</li>
<li><strong>Translation Ready</strong> – Includes a <code>.pot</code> file for localization.</li>
<li><strong>Clean Uninstall</strong> – Removes all plugin data and options when uninstalled.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Restricting Content</h4>
<p>Restrictly™ lets you limit access to any <strong>page</strong> or <strong>post</strong> using intuitive controls:<br />
– <strong>Login-Based Restrictions</strong> – Limit visibility to Logged-In or Logged-Out users.<br />
– <strong>Role-Based Restrictions</strong> – Allow access only to specific user roles.<br />
– <strong>Enforcement Actions</strong> – Display a custom message or redirect unauthorized users.<br />
– <strong>Administrator Override</strong> – Admins can always access restricted content when enabled.</p>
<h4>Restricting Blocks (FSE)</h4>
<p>Restrictly™ integrates directly with the WordPress Site Editor (FSE) to provide per-block visibility:<br />
– Choose <strong>Everyone</strong>, <strong>Logged-In</strong>, <strong>Logged-Out</strong>, or <strong>Specific Roles</strong>.<br />
– Instantly preview restrictions using colored visibility indicators.<br />
– Restrictions are enforced server-side for full security and consistency.</p>
<h4>Restricting Navigation (FSE Menus)</h4>
<p>Restrictly™ also controls FSE Navigation menu visibility:<br />
– Show or hide individual links, submenus, and page lists by login status or role.<br />
– Works natively inside the block-based Navigation editor.</p>
<h4>REST API Enforcement</h4>
<p>Restrictly™ applies identical access logic to REST API endpoints.<br />
Unauthorized users see redacted content instead of restricted data — ensuring privacy across your site.</p>
<h4>Search & Archive Filtering</h4>
<p>Restricted content is automatically excluded from:<br />
– <strong>Search results</strong><br />
– <strong>Category, Tag, and Author archives</strong><br />
– <strong>Home and custom queries</strong></p>
<h4>Restricting Menu Items (Classic Menus)</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Login-Based Visibility</strong> – Show menu items only to Logged-In or Logged-Out users.</li>
<li><strong>Role-Based Visibility</strong> – Display menu items only to selected roles.</li>
<li><strong>Conflict Detection</strong> – Highlights mismatched menu vs. page restrictions for easy correction.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Restrictly™ does <strong>not</strong> collect user data, track activity, or transmit information externally.</p>
<h3>Contributing & Support</h3>
<p>Development happens on GitHub — pull requests and issue reports welcome:<br />
https://github.com/bobbyalcorn/restrictly</p>
<p>For full documentation and support, visit:<br />
https://restrictlypro.com</p>


Restrictly – Access Control

Performance-focused access control for WordPress, enforcing rule-based visibility across content, menus, and blocks with a clean core.

Freemius

Jory Hogeveen

DEV Institute

Joachim Jensen

<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.

Restrictly – Access Control vs Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection