Comments on: Protecting An Entire WordPress Category

By: Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:18:08 +0000

Geoff,

No, DAP doesn’t automatically hide protected pages from WP custom menus. That happens only in regular menus.

We will try to work it into a future version.

- Ravi

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:10:23 +0000

Ravi,
Is there a way in WP 3 custom menus to have them show / hide based on access rights just like the primary menu?

BTW Loving the product.

By: GA

GA — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:40:07 +0000

Hi Ravi,

Should this work with a section of posts that are grouped by a tag?

Such as:
http://yoursite.com/tag/example/

Best,
GA

By: Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:31:33 +0000

Mark,

Yes, that is correct. No changes to the “More” tag.

- Ravi

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:55:01 +0000

I’m guessing that the MORE tag function will still work as usual within each post in a protected category?

By: Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:02:47 +0000

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

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:38:46 +0000

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!