Description
Content Control is a lightweight and powerful plugin that allows you to take complete control of your website’s content by restricting access to pages/posts to logged in users, specific user roles or to logged out users.
The plugin also enables you to restrict access to certain parts of a page/post using shortcodes e.g [content_control]Logged in content[/content_control]
Lastly, the plugin allows you to control the visibility of each sidebar/footer widget by selecting who can view each widget (everyone, logged out users, logged in users, specific user roles).
Full Feature List
Content Control allows you to do the following:
- Restrict access to pages/posts to logged in/out users or specific user roles
- Restrict access to media, tags, categories, format to logged in/out users or specific user roles
- Display a custom message to users who do not have permission to view the content
- Redirect users who do not have permission to view the content to login page (redirects back to page/post after login), website homepage or custom URL
- Display certain content on a page/post to logged in users only
- Display certain content on a page/post to specific user roles
- Display certain content on a page/post to logged out users
- Apply custom CSS classes to on page content restriction shortcodes
- Control the visibility of each sidebar/footer widget by selecting who can view each widget (everyone, logged out users, logged in users, specific user roles).
Shortcode
[content_control roles=”subscriber,editor” logged_out=”0″ class=”custom-css-class” message=”You don’t have access to this.”]Logged in content[/content_control]
All parameters are optional:
- roles – comma list of user roles that can see this content.
- logged_out (default:0) – 0 or 1 for false/true. Checks whether the user should be logged out, as opposed to logged in.
- class – custom CSS class to add to the controlled content for additional styling.
- message – custom denial message.
Created by Code Atlantic
Content Control is built by the Code Atlantic team. We create high-quality WordPress plugins that help you grow your WordPress sites.
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Requires WordPress 3.6 and PHP 5.3
Screenshots
Create unlimited restriction sets. Choose who can see the restricted content. Display a message in place of restricted content. Redirect users to log in or to another page if they access restricted content. Choose any content you can think of to protect. Use shortcodes to protect content inline. Restrict widgets as well.
Installation
Minimum Requirements
- WordPress 3.6 or greater
- PHP version 5.3 or greater
Installation
- Install Content Control either via the WordPress.org plugin repository or by uploading the files to your server.
- Activate Content Control.
If you need help getting started with Content Control please see FAQs which explains how to use the plugin.
FAQ
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Where can I get support?
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If you get stuck, you can ask for help in the Content Control Plugin Forum.
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Where can I report bugs or contribute to the project?
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Bugs can be reported either in our support forum or preferably on the Content Control GitHub repo.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Content Control – User Access Restriction Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
v1.1.9 – 09/30/2021
- Fix: Error when using Gutenberg Preview.
v1.1.8 – 07/17/2021
- Fix: Error when Elementor instance preview proptery was null.
v1.1.7 – 07/17/2021
- Fix: Prevent warning if widget settings don’t exist in options table.
- Fix: Arbitrary limit of 10 on current items listed in Restriction Editor due to WP query default args.
- Fix: Prevent restrictions from activating when using the Elementor page builder.
v1.1.6 – 03/21/2021
- Fix: Nonce validation was preventing 3rd party plugin from saving widget settings when it failed. Thanks @jacobmischka
- Fix: Prevent corrupted options from preventing saving of settings.
v1.1.5 – 02/22/2021
- Fix: Issue where roles with
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would not save when checked.
v1.1.4 – 03/24/2020
- Improvement: Added gettext handling for several strings that were not translatable.
- Tweak: Process shortcodes in default denial message contents.
- Tweak: Various improvements in form reliability & user experience.
- Fix: Issues with ajax search fields not retaining their values after save.
- Fix: Issue where only would show 10 pages.
- Fix: PHP 7.4 compatibility fixes.
v1.1.3 – 12/03/2019
- Fix: Custom post type conditions were not always registered.
v1.1.2 – 11/10/2019
- Tweak: Remove erroneous console.log messages in admin.
- Fix: Fatal error when empty shortcode used.
v1.1.1 – 10/15/2019
- Fix: Bugs where variables were not always the expected type.
v1.1.0
- Improvement: Added default denial message to shortcode.
- Improvement: Render nested shortcodes in the [content_control] shortcode.
- Fix: Bug where multiple roles checked together in restriction editor.
v1.0.3
- Fix: Minor notice on activation.
v1.0.2
- Fix: Call to undefined function.
v1.0.1
- Fix: Non static method called statically
- Fix: Bug when using invalid variable type.
v1.0.0
- Initial Release