<p>Based on the 3rd-party Category Access, this plugin provides the core functionality for restricting the access permissions of posts.  This gives you the ability to permit only specific registered users to read certain posts or certain categories of posts.</p>
<p>This plugin is part of the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-privacy/">Social Privacy</a> set of plugins and it’s recommended that you install the entire set at one time to get complete control over access to your posts on your blog.</p>
<h4>Differences between the original plugin and our plugin</h4>
<p>The 3rd-party <a href="http://www.coppit.org/blog/archives/173" rel="nofollow ugc">Category Access</a> plugin provides the core functionality for restricting the access permissions of posts to certain registered users.  For each user you can list the categories that he or she should have access to.</p>
<p>New features have been added to our version of this plugin to allow access to be restricted to specific users on a per-post basis, regardless of the categories.  The plugin has also been enhanced to work well with the other plugins in <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-privacy/">Social Privacy</a> set, which add similar restriction capabilities to email and feeds.</p>
<p>If you decide to stop using this plugin, there is an additional feature that lets you make all your protected posts “private” so that they’re not suddenly exposed to the public once the plugin is deactivated.</p>


Social Access Control

Based on the 3rd-party Category Access, this plugin provides the core functionality for restricting the access permissions of posts.

<p>Based on the 3rd-party Subscribe2, this plugin allows registered and unregistered users to be notified via email whenever there is a new post that they are permitted to access.  Users can choose between different email contents and post categories.</p>
<p>This plugin is part of the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-privacy/">Social Privacy</a> set of plugins and it’s recommended that you install the entire set at one time to get complete control over access to your posts on your blog.</p>
<h4>Differences between the original plugin and our plugin</h4>
<p>The 3rd-party <a href="http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Subscribe2</a> plugin allows registered and unregistered users to be notified via email whenever a new post is published, regardless of whether access is restricted.  It allows users to subscribe to either full posts or excerpts of posts, to choose whether the format of full posts should be HTML or plain-text, and to select which categories they are interested in.</p>
<p>Our version of the plugin works with <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-access-control/">Social Access Control</a> so that users receive emails only for posts or categories of posts that they are permitted to view.  In addition, the administrator can choose from several  email contents depending on whether the post is public or restricted: full post, excerpt, title only, or no email.</p>


Subscribe2 for Social Privacy

Based on the 3rd-party Subscribe2, this plugin allows registered and unregistered users to be notified via email whenever there is a new post that the …

Social Access Control vs Subscribe2 for Social Privacy