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Free Plugin by Manny Costales v3.0

Members Restricted Access

This plugin creates shortcodes to restrict the access to users (visitors, members or by an specific role). You can also add a shortcode and use nested …

Members Restricted Access

The facts

Rating
5★ from 4
Active installs
100+
Price
Free
Last updated
3 Mar 2016
Added
Mar 2015
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
WP 4.4.34
Downloads
7,251

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Members Restricted Access is a WordPress plugin that allows you to restrict access to content based on user roles. You can create sections in your pages or posts that are only visible to visitors, members, or specific roles using shortcodes. The plugin provides flexibility with parameters to customize messages displayed to users who do not have the required access rights.

This plugin is suitable for website owners who need to control content visibility based on user roles, such as membership sites or community platforms. It is designed for users who are comfortable working with shortcodes to manage access restrictions effectively.

Best for: This suits website owners needing to manage content access for different user roles.

What it does well

  • Creates shortcodes for content restriction
  • Allows visibility control for visitors and members
  • Customisable messages for different user roles

Where it falls short

  • Limited information on features and usage
  • Last updated in March 2016, may not be compatible with newer WordPress versions

Verdict

Members Restricted Access provides a straightforward way to restrict content based on user roles, but its age and limited updates may be a concern for some users.

From the developer

Manny Costales's own description of Members Restricted Access, lightly tidied.

This plugin create shortcodes to restrict the access to Visitors, Members or specific role. You can create sections in your page/post only visible to members (logged users), visitors or for an specific role.

To use you need to create the content and wrap it with these shortcodes: [visitor], [member] or [showifrole].

  • You can use the parameters ‘is’ and ‘msg’. If you not specify them, the default value will be use instead.
  • The paramater ‘is’ is use it with the shortcode [showifrole] to check for that specific user. The default value is ‘administrator’.
  • And ‘msg’ is the message the system is going to show. You can use html code with single apostrophes (‘). The default value is null.

Examples:

‘[visitor]
content only visible to visitors
[/visitor]

[member msg=”You need to Login to see this content.”]
content only visible to members
[/member]

[showifrole is=administrator]
content only visible for administrators
[/showifrole]

[showifrole is=author msg=”You don’t have the required role.”]
content only visible for authors
[showifrole]’

Read the full description on the official page →

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