Restrict access to a single post or page

Once you integrate the Memberful WordPress plugin, you'll see a metabox at the bottom of each post and page on your site. This metabox lets you specify the access restrictions on a post-by-post / page-by-page basis.

In this help doc:

• Review your options for restricting content.
• Choose who has access.
• Add marketing content.
• Add members-only content.

Review your options for restricting content

When it comes to restricting access to content with the Memberful WordPress plugin, you have several options. You can:

• Restrict access to a single WordPress post or page
• Restrict access by category or tag.
• Restrict access using our shortcodes
• Restrict access using our WordPress Functions (developer feature)
• Bulk restrict access to posts and pages (one-time setting)

In this doc, we will describe how to restrict access to a single post or page.

Choose who has access

Once you've installed the Memberful WordPress plugin on your site, you'll see a Memberful: Restrict Access box at the bottom of each page and post. Choose who should have access to your page or post by checking the appropriate box(es):

• All members—active, inactive, or free (works well for a "Freemium" tier)
• Members with an active subscription to any Plan
• Members with an active subscription to a specific Plan
• Anybody who owns a specific Download

Restrict access to Custom post types

Register your custom post types to use them with Memberful.

Add marketing content

Add content to the Memberful marketing box like a Plan purchase link for non-members and a sign in link for existing members.

Check out these customer examples for inspiration:

• Mythical Society's members-only videos
• Stab Magazine's premium films

Fade out text

If you’d like display the beginning of the post and then fade out with a lock-type image, you can use our Global marketing content setting.

From your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Settings → Memberful → Global marketing content, check the setting Automatically pull an excerpt from each post, and one of the two options:

• Override all marketing content
• Only use the global marketing content when other content doesn't exist

Memberful will pull the first two paragraphs from your protected posts to use as marketing content for logged out visitors. This feature requires <p> tags in your posts to detect which content to use.

Set default marketing content

To create default marketing content for all new posts and pages, check the box at the bottom of the editor.

Add members-only content

Add your members-only text, images, and video embed codes in the editor above the marketing content. Save your page or post.

If a member is logged in to your site and has the correct access, they’ll be able to see the protected content on your page or post. If they don't have the right access or are logged out of your site—they'll see the marketing content.

Related help docs:

• If you need to include marketing material in your unprotected (free) content, but want it to be hidden to customers who've already paid, use our shortcodes to manually protect WordPress content.