Restrict Anonymous Access

This plugin helps you to hide certain parts of your content like a paragraph or an image etc. to logged-out users or users of any other role with just a simple shortcode.

Customize the shortcode in order to display a special note to your users, apply custom CSS classes for your own design or hide the restricted parts completely.

Features:

• text within shortcode [member][/member] is not visible to anonymous users
• hide content based on user roles (subscriber, contributor, author, editor, admin)
• restricted text can be replaced with info text box
• info text can be customized
• comes with a handy TinyMCE button for quick access

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/restrict-anonymous-access directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
3. Use the shortcode [member][/member] in any post, page or custom post type in order to hide content from anonymous users. Important: Please use “Classic” block element if you are using Gutenberg.
4. Optional parameters are showinfo="0" to hide the info message, infotext="Your custom info for anons." and class="my-custom-css-class" for adding CSS class to the info box.
5. Use parameter role="[subscriber|contributor|author|editor|admin|your-custom-role]", e.g. role="editor" to hide content from users below editor capabilities.

1. 

   Inserted the shortcode in WordPress content editor.

2. 

   Front-end view with anonymous user, content is hidden and info message shown instead.

3. 

   Front-end view with logged-in user, content is shown.

1.2.1

• Fixed vulnerability to Cross Site Scripting (XSS).
• Tested with WordPress 5.7.1.

1.2

• Added compatibility to custom user roles.
• Added HTML support for infotext parameter.

1.1

• Added optional user role based content restriction.

1.0.3

• Tested with WordPress 4.8.
• Fixed: Text output with paragraph tag (wpautop).

1.0.2

• Initial release for WordPress plugin directory.