How to Restrict Content on WordPress Site

WordPress Content Restriction Introduction

Are you a WordPress admin who writes high value content for your blog readers? If yes, then surely you must know how to restrict content to your blog readers. We will present to you the most effective way to restrict content on your WordPress website, with the help of ‘ProfileGrid’.

As you already know, any WordPress post or page we publish is visible to all site visitor across the board. This is the default functionality of WordPress, with no content restriction. But after installing ProfileGrid on your website, you’ll get all content restriction and visibility controls right there on the post/page edit screen itself.

Let’s publish a blog post without ProfileGrid installed on my site.

You can see from the site’s frontend that the blog post is fully visible, with all the content.

Next, let’s install and activate ProfileGrid from the ‘Plugins’ dashboard menu.

Content Restriction Feature

Now that my site has ProfileGrid active on it, the plugin gives immense capabilities to restrict content of any post/page. If you go back to the blog post created earlier and scroll down to just below the post/page edit section, you will see a new set of options available, with the heading ‘ProfileGrid’. At first, only a single option is visible there, which is ‘Apply custom access settings?’ with a switch next to it. By default, this option remains off, so you will have to activate it to move further ahead.

Enabling custom access settings displays 4 ‘Content Availability’ options to choose from. These are…

1. Content accessible to Everyone: Choose this option will allow everyone to access the online post/page content once it is published.
2. Content accessible to Logged In Users: Choose this option to restrict content of the published post/page. to only logged-in users. Any user who wants to access this post/page content needs to register first. Only registered users can access the content.
3. Content accessible to My Friends: This option combines the powerful social aspects of ProfileGrid with that of content restriction. Choose this option to restrict content of the post/page to those users who are your friends through ProfileGrid platform.
4. Content accessible to Only Me: Choose this option to restrict content of post/page to you. No one else can access the post.

Let’s choose the option ‘Content accessible to Logged In Users’. An another option displays right below it, which is ‘Select the User Group that can see this content?’.

We have covered User Groups in-depth in a separate article. Select the ‘All Registered Users’ option and update the changes. Content is now locked to registered users on the site.

Lastly, let’s see how an unregistered user view the content on same post.

Thank you for reading this article. We will keep updating you with more information on ProfileGrid.