Restrict Content by Role

If you have a WordPress website with multiple users and several User Roles defined, and you wish to prevent certain User Roles from accessing certain pieces of content (and sub-content) both publicly and within wp-admin, then this plugin is for you. NOTICE: We are actively developing 'Restrict content by...' which will eventually replace this plugin with something that works better, and will do so much more. The plugin provides the following functionality:

• A meta box to allow you to set user role permissions for content and its sub-content
• Choose if a restricted role can also view or edit that content in wp-admin
• An option to allow content, content and sub-content or just sub content to be restricted
• An option to allow a custom redirect URL (overriding default redirect URL settings)
• The ability to override parent content restrictions on sub-content (including the ability to make it public)
• Works with the CMS Tree Page View plugin
• An options page, with the following options:
• Choose post types that the meta box should appear on
• Option to hide restricted pages from menu (only works when using wp_nav_menu())
• Choose the roles that will appear in the meta box to be restricted
• Define a login screen error message (if no custom redirect URL is set)
• Set a custom redirect URL
• Prevent users from adding child content to restricted content

If you are using this plugin in your project we would love to hear about it.

1.0.0

• First stable release

1.1.0

• Reviewed and refactored code

1.2.0

• Updated for submission to WordPress plugin repository

2.0.0

• The plugin can now restrict access to content on within wp-admin
• You can now select which roles are shown in the custom meta box

2.1.0

• Now works with the CMS Tree Page View plugin

3.0.0

• Switched the way the meta box checkboxes work, so that they are more intuitive.

3.0.1

• Fixed bug where new pages would be locked out.

3.1.0

• New option to prevent users adding child pages to restricted pages.

3.1.1

• Bug fix - sometimes new pages were automatically locked.

3.1.2

• Bug fix - better fix for auto-locking pages.

3.2.0

• Added checkbox to allow redirects back to the originally requested URL

3.3.0

• Added 'Public Access' role, to restrict pages to logged in users
• Fixed an issue that prevented Tree Page View from working with the plugin

3.3.1

• Tested with WordPress 4.5, updated translations

3.4.0

• Option to hide restricted pages from menu (only works when using wp_nav_menu())

3.4.1

• Added missing Menu Access file

3.4.2

• Allow admins to see backend menu items, even if they are restricted on the front end

3.5.0

• Added ability to reset permissions for each role
• Fixed menu when not hiding
• Appended query string to redirect

3.5.1

• Added new artwork

3.5.2

• Bug fixes

3.5.3 - 3.5.6

• Repair botched deploy