Global Content Restriction

Activate the Global Content Restriction Add-on

Global Content Restriction is a Basic add-on, available with a Paid Member Subscriptions Basic, Pro, or Agency license only.

After purchasing a premium version of Paid Member Subscriptions, you can check the following guide on how to install Paid Member Subscriptions.

After installing the Basic, Pro, or Agency version, to activate the Global Content Restriction add-on, go to Dashboard → Paid Member Subscriptions → Add-ons → Global Content Restriction Add-on and click activate.

Global Content Restriction Settings

After you install and activate the Global Content Restriction add-on, go to Paid Member Subscriptions → Subscription Plans and add a new plan or edit an existing one.

After setting up the details for your Subscription Plan, go to the Global Content Restriction tab.

Restricting a Post Type

Select a Post Type from the ones available. Here you will see post, page, attachment, and all the other Custom Post Types.

In our example, we selected “post”, and right now only members subscribed to this plan will be able to see the posts. Logged-out users and logged-in users not subscribed to this plan will see, instead of the content, an appropriate message.

This is how a restricted post looks in the front end for a logged-out user. You can adjust the message for logged-out users inside Paid Member Subscriptions → Settings → Content Restriction.

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Restriction based on Taxonomy

You’ll notice that you can now choose to add a Taxonomy restriction for the selected post type. Click on the “Add Taxonomy” button and select one from the taxonomies attached to the previously selected post type.

In our case, we selected the “Category” Taxonomy.

All the available terms from the Category Taxonomy will now be displayed as checkboxes.

Selecting the “Premium content” term will now allow only users subscribed to this plan to see the posts from this category. Everyone else will be able to see only the posts from the Uncategorized category and all the content from all other post types.

This is how a restricted post looks in the front end for a logged-in non-member who didn’t subscribe to the Subscription Plan. You can adjust the message for logged-in non-member inside Paid Member Subscriptions → Settings → Content Restriction.

Multiple Restriction Rules

Now you can choose to Restrict Content based on Terms under another Taxonomy, of the current Post Type, or you can add a different rule where you can select a different Post Type.

In this example, there is another rule where I restricted access to members not subscribed to this plan, for the Custom Post Type “post”, having the tag “Math”.

To sum up, we now have a “Gold” Subscription Plan that allows access to the posts from the “Premium content” Category, from the Special Taxonomy, that has the “Advanced Course” term, and also to posts that have the tag “Math”

Users who didn’t subscribe to the “Gold” plan will not have access to the content mentioned above. You can have a different set of rules for each of the Subscription Plans.

Restrict Individual Posts

Protecting content for different Membership Levels is an integral part of Paid Member Subscriptions. There are two ways of protecting your Posts, Pages, or Custom Post Types:

• Directly inside each Post, Page, or Custom Post Type using the Content Restriction Meta Box
• Using the [pms-restrict] shortcode

Removing Restrictions

To remove the content restriction for certain Terms, simply uncheck the checkboxes for those specific Terms.

To remove the whole Taxonomy-based restriction, thereby restricting all posts regardless of category, click the Remove button associated with each Taxonomy.

Removing a Restriction Rule completely can be done by clicking on the “X” displayed on the right side of each rule.