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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. That is reason why I am here today, to present to you the most effective way to restrict content on your WordPress website. With the help of ‘ProfileGrid’.

ProfileGrid is the fastest growing social plugin for WordPress with the ability to turn your WordPress website/blog into a well-rounded membership platform. Included in ProfileGrid’s vast stockpile of features is the ability to restrict content as well. This is the feature we’ll be looking at in detail next.

The Annoying Lack of Content Restriction

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. 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 say I publish a blog post without ProfileGrid installed on my site.

Creating New Blog Post

You can see from the site’s frontend that the blog post is fully visible. Which, of course, is entirely as per expectations.

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

ProfileGrid Comes to the Rescue

Now that my site has ProfileGrid active on it, the plugin gives me immense capabilities to restrict content of any post/page. If I go back to the blog post I created earlier and scroll down to just below the post/page edit section, I 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 we’ll have to activate it to move further ahead.

PG Content Restrict Settings

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

  1. Content accessible to Everyone: As the name implies, 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. This means that any user who wants to access this post/page content needs to register first. User registration helps ensure that only authorized people access the content.
  3. Content accessible to My Friends: This option utilizes the powerful social aspects of ProfileGrid with that of content restriction. Choose this option to restrict content of this post/page to only those users who are your friends through ProfileGrid platform.
  4. Content accessible to Only Me: Choose this option to restrict content of particular post/page only to you and no one else.

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

Restrict Content for User Group

I’ll be covering User Groups in-depth in a separate article soon. So for now, I’ll just select the ‘All Registered Users’ option and update the changes. Our content is now locked to everyone barring those that are already registered on the site.

Let’s see how a user who isn’t registered on the site views the same post now…

Restricted Content View

Content Restriction – As Easy As It Can Be

Evident from the analysis above, there is simply no match for ProfileGrid in ease of use of content restriction. In just a few clicks, you can easily restrict content of any post/page to a specific set of users.

In addition to its content restricting capability, ProfileGrid is an unparalleled social activity platform for WordPress. I recommend that you check out its endless list of features to find out yourself. To know more on how to get started with ProfileGrid, don’t forget to visit the official ProfileGrid Starter Guide.

I’ll keep updating you with more information on ProfileGrid. Just stay tuned to our blog.

22 Comments

  1. Ashley

    This feature does not work properly, with content showing above the warning – which is pointless?

    1. ProfileGrid

      Thanks for reporting this. We will need further information to help with analysis of the problem. Could you please open ticket for this on our support portal and we will get back to you with further details. Ticket can be submitted here: https://profilegrid.co/contact-us-2/

  2. Rihab

    I cannot find ‘Profile Grid Apply custom access setting’ under a page or a post.
    Do I need to enable it somewhere in the settings?

    1. ProfileGrid

      There is no such direct setting available in plugin. But please confirm if following option is enabled on dashboard:

      1) Login to dashboard
      2) Go to the page/post and edit it
      3) On top of page/post expand the ‘Screen options’ and confirm if ‘ProfileGrid’ is enabled

  3. Niels

    Hello, i cant see the I cannot find the ‘Profile Grid Apply custom access setting’ either. It is enabled on top, but there is no field like you shown.

    1. ProfileGrid

      It seems like the issue is specific to your site, where one of the existing plugins on the site could be conflicting with ProfileGrid. Could you please check it after deactivating all other plugins on the site, except for ProfileGrid?

      If the issue is still occurring, we will need access to the site in order to debug it further. Please share your site’s admin dashboard access by creating a new admin user for our support email ID support@profilegrid.co

  4. Vadim

    Instead of restricting a whole page, is it possible to restrict a paragraph on a page?

    1. ProfileGrid

      Currently ProfileGrid allows for restriction on the whole page and not its specific part(s).

  5. braud

    Hi,

    I’d like to restrict the access to the comments of the post: currently, only registered users can see the post, but anyone cas see the comments :/

    Thank you!

    1. ProfileGrid

      Comments cannot be restricted as of now. We have noted this requirement and forwarded it to our development team for further review and analysis.

  6. Eckhart

    I figured whenever i do a bulk edit of some blogs (assigning a tag to multiple blog pages or assigning a few blogs to a different user-id), it disables the ‘Apply custom access settings’ and i basically have to go into every single bulk edited page then and re-enable it. is this a bug?

    1. ProfileGrid

      Thanks for reporting this issue. We have found it as a bug and forwarded it to our development team to fix it.

  7. Morten Thorvaldsen

    Would it be possible to have content restriction on “inlays”/post, like a flippingbook, created by a 3rd-party plugin like 3D FlipBook?

    1. ProfileGrid Editorial Team

      Currently, ProfileGrid supports content restriction feature only for WordPress default posts or pages, not for the custom post types.

  8. Adrian Pablo Lioi

    Hello, I have this plug installed on my site but since it is in Spanish I need to edit the text that comes out when trying to enter “login requires to …” Can it be replaced by another text or an image?

    1. ProfileGrid Editorial Team

      You may change the text using the “Loco Translate” plugin. ProfileGrid has a POT file that includes all English text from the plugin for translation.

  9. Dienstenbrigade

    Content restriction feature worked fine. Since a few days I can’t find the option in the pages to turn it on. For some reason it disapeared. Deactivating the plugins didn’t solve the problem. We use a theme made by Themler. But changing the theme doesn’t solve the problem either (Twenty nineteen). Don’t know what to do next. Can someone help please? Thank you!

    1. ProfileGrid

      The content restriction block has been moved to the left menu of the page or post screen.

  10. Alissa

    Is it possible to restrict the whole website for all users that are not logged in at once?

    1. ProfileGrid Editorial Team

      ProfileGrid does not allow to restrict the whole website. It allows for the restriction of the menu and page content using the content restriction feature.

  11. Valentina

    How can I change the error messages “Login required…”?

    1. ProfileGrid Editorial Team

      You may change the text using the “Loco Translate” plugin. ProfileGrid has a POT file that includes all English text from the plugin for translation.

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