You can protect an entire category within your WP blog simply by adding the permalink to that category to a “Product”, just like you would protect the permalink of a blog post.
So, browse to your blog in your browser, visit the category that you wish to protect on your blog. The link will probably look like http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/doc/category/livelinks/
So copy the link that you see in your browser (this is the “permalink” for that category), log in as DAP Admin, and add it to one of your products.
IMPORTANT:
When you add an entire category of posts to DAP, then all posts in that category – posts currently in that category, as well posts you will be adding in the future under that category – will all become automatically protected.
So if you add the entire category to DAP and then configure that “link” to be available on a certain day, or date, then remember that ALL posts within that category will automatically become available on that day or date.
WARNING:
Also remember that because you are adding an entire category of posts, and not individual posts, you won’t be able to configure individual posts within that category to be dripped at various times. Only the “category” link can be configured to be dripped, and not the individual posts within it.
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Hi Ravi, I was a customer of WMIAB way back and can attest to your expertise. I’m SO HAPPY to see you have a Wordpress Membership site plugin, there is a great need for a solid one.
Anyhow, does this apply to subcategories also? So if I have a category named “tutorials” and then three subcats under it (ie: “subcat1″ “subcat2″ and “subcat3″) can I…
Have them have access to subcat1 on day one, then add subcat2 on day 7, and then subcat3 on day 14?
Hope that makes sense!
Lisa,
Good to hear from you!
Yes, you can protect sub-categories. But remember, if you protect an entire category, you can’t publicly publish your archives, because if someone who is not entitled to a category clicks on the link, they will get an empty blog page with errors.
So as long as you don’t publish the archives or category listing on your site, you can do that.
A better way is to protect individual posts, and make X posts (from one category) all available on the same day. That will have the same effect as far as your member is concerned, and you won’t have to worry about hiding any of the categories. This will work as normal.
Feel free to email me if you have more questions.
- Ravi
I’m guessing that the MORE tag function will still work as usual within each post in a protected category?
Mark,
Yes, that is correct. No changes to the “More” tag.
- Ravi
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