Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection Plugin

Restrict User Access is a fast and simple Membership Plugin for WordPress. Restrict your content in minutes, NOT hours.

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.

👥 Unlimited Access Levels

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.

⚡ Level Membership Automations

Automatically add levels to your users based on something they do (Triggers) or something they are (Traits):

• User Roles
• Logged-in or Guests
• WooCommerce Purchases
• Easy Digital Downloads Purchases
• BuddyPress Member Types
• GiveWP Donations

🔒 Contextual Content Protection

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.

The following Access Conditions are available out of the box:

• Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types
• Content with Tags, Categories, or Custom Taxonomies
• Content written by select Authors
• Page Templates
• Blog Page & Post Type Archives
• Author Archives
• Taxonomy Archives
• Front Page, Search Results, 404 Not Found Page
• bbPress Profiles, Forums & Topics
• BuddyPress Profile Sections
• Languages (Polylang, qTranslate X, TranslatePress, Transposh, Weglot, WPML)
• Pods Pages

Note that Access Conditions do not apply to content displayed in lists.

✅ Grant & Deny Capabilities

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.

👁️ Hide Admin Bar & Nav Menu Visibility

Disable the admin bar for select levels and control what menu items members can see. You can even hide any widget area created with Content Aware Sidebars

🤖 Restrict Content from Other Plugins

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.

• bbPress
• BuddyPress
• Easy Digital Downloads
• Pods
• Polylang
• TranslatePress
• WooCommerce
• Weglot
• WPML
• and more …

🛡️ WordPress Security Enhancements

• WP REST API Content Protection
  Enforces PoLA to minimize attack surfaces and stop threat actors from harvesting your data
• How to display content in lists
  Display excerpts only or hide content when post types are displayed in blog, archives, search results, lists, etc.

📑 Restrict Content with Shortcodes

Fine-tune content visibility in your posts or pages by adding simple shortcodes:

[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] 

👋 Developer-friendly API

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.

Example – Add level to current user

rua_get_user()->add_level($level_id); 

Example – Check if current user has an active level membership

if(rua_get_user()->has_level($level_id)) { //show restricted content } else { //show content if unauthorized } 

View full RUA PHP API documentation here.

🎛️ Premium Add-ons for Restrict User Access

Complete your WordPress membership site with these powerful extensions

• ACF Restriction
  Restrict content that contain data from Advanced Custom Fields plugin
• Date Restriction
  Restrict content based on the time it was published
• Meta Box Restriction
  Restrict content that contain data from Meta Box plugin
• Timelock
  Determine when to enable or disable select Access Conditions
• URL Restriction
  Restrict content based on the WordPress URL, with wildcard support
• Visibility Control
  Hide content from blog, search results, archives, custom lists, WP REST API, and more

1. Upload the full plugin directory to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory or install the plugin through Plugins in the administration
2. Activate the plugin through Plugins in the administration
3. Have fun creating your first Access Level under the menu User Access > Add New

1. 

   Simple Access Levels Overview

2. 

   Easy-to-use Access Conditions

3. 

   Capability Manager for Access Level

Follow development and see all changes on GitHub

Highlights

2.7

• [new] ui and performance improvements
• [new] wordpress 6.5 support
• [new] minimum wordpress version 5.5
• [new] minimum php version 7.1
• [fixed] memberships now removed on user deletion
• [fixed] improved compatibility with wpml plugin
• [updated] wp-content-aware-engine library
• [updated] freemius sdk

2.6.1

• [new] ui and performance improvements
• [updated] freemius sdk
• [fixed] timezone discrepancies in level memberships
• [fixed] conflict with other plugins erroneously manipulating membership queries

2.6

• [new] rest api content protection
• [new] control how content is displayed in lists
• [updated] buddypress 12 compatibility
• [fixed] compatibility with polylang and wpml
• [fixed] xss vulnerability when editing levels

2.5

• [new] admin ability to extend, search, and sort memberships
• [new] member trait – givewp donation
• [new] wp multisite network support
• [new] greatly improved membership data storage
• [new] wordpress 6.4 support
• [new] minimum wordpress version 5.1
• [new] minimum php version 7.0
• [new] ui and performance improvements
• [updated] wp-content-aware-engine library
• [updated] freemius sdk

2.4.3

• [new] wordpress 6.2 support
• [updated] freemius sdk

2.4.2

• [new] api to update user level start, expiry, status
• [new] ui improvements
• [updated] freemius sdk
• [removed] deprecated php api methods: rua_get_user_roles, rua_get_user_levels, rua_get_user_level_start, rua_get_user_level_expiry, rua_is_user_level_expired, rua_has_user_level, rua_add_user_level, rua_remove_user_level

2.4.1

• [new] wordpress 6.1 support
• [new] ui improvements
• [fixed] user role trait would in some cases not work for extended levels
• [updated] wp-content-aware-engine library

2.4

• [new] member trigger – easy digital downloads purchase
• [new] member trait – buddypress member type
• [new] member trait – user role (supersedes user role sync)
• [new] auto-complete searching for member automations
• [new] ui and performance improvements
• [updated] wp-content-aware-engine library

See changelog.txt for previous changes.