OnePress Social Locker

Drive traffic, build quality followers and improve your website ranking Social Locker is the most popular content-locking plugin for Wordpress in the world with attention-grabbing styles and advanced analytics. Screenshots | Try Live Demo >>

The Social Locker locks your most valuable site content behind a set of social buttons until the visitor likes, shares, +1s or tweets your page. It helps to improve social performance of your website, get more likes/shares, build quality followers and attract more traffic from social networks. Do you still place social buttons on every page of your website? But visitors don’t like/share your content as often as you would like? You should give people a reason why they need to click your social buttons. Even if people like your content, site or fanpage, they don’t click the buttons because they don’t worry about you, your benefits or your traffic. It’s not their problem. But ask people to “pay” with a Like/Tweet/+1 to get access to your content, to get a discount, to download, to read an ending of your article, to watch a video or to view a funny picture. And it will start to work as it should be! With Social Locker, you can lock anything in your content and automatically unlock it after a visitor has shared your page. All you need to do is select the part of your content you want to lock, click a button and you’re done! Trusted By Bloggers And Entrepreneurs Around The World The Social Locker is the favorite plugin of more than 10 000 bloggers, entrepreneurs and marketers around the world. Learn what people say:

The best social locker out there. A great way to get likes and followers in exchange for accessing special content. Brandon Gaille, brandgaille.com An essential plugin for increase social interaction and improve SEO. Bruno Ramos Lara, increnta.com Social Locker was a very good plugin to improve and maximize traffic from social networks. Michele Pinassi, zerozone.it Do you have a post that gets a lot of traffic but you can’t figure out what to do with it? Use Social Locker to “lock up” content that can be unlocked with a Facebook Like, Tweet, or +1. Great way to accumulate some social metrics. Jim Wang, microblogger.com It's nicely designed and doesn’t look at all obtrusive on your site. If you want to incentivize your site’s visitors to share your content then this is a fantastic solution. Tom Ewer, leavingworkbehind.com One highly awesome feature of this plugin is the ability to see how effective (or ineffective) it is on your site. The reports are really detailed and can help you identify what content is being shared as well as on which social networks. Rae Hoffman, sugarrae.com

Key Features The plugin is packaged with the following features:

• 3 social buttons. Facebook Like, Twitter Tweet, Google +1. More social buttons are available in the premium version.
• Any URL to be liked/tweeted/+1ed. You can set any URLs which will be used to share via your social lockers.
• Built-in Advanced Analytics. Easily identify which lockers on which pages are out-performing others, how to optimize your lockers and what you could do differently to improve your results.
• Attention-Grabbing Styles & Effects. The plugin comes with a set of impressive, polished styles which create interest and attract attention. They are nicely animated and don’t look obtrusive.
• SEO Friendly. Your locked content is still visible for search bots for better SEO by default. Of course you can turn off this feature.
• 4 Types of Locks. Lock any content manually via shortcodes or setup batch lock via one of 3 powerful modes (“Skip & Lock”, “More Tag”, “CSS Selector”).
• Visual Composer. The Social Locker is fully compatible with the Visual Composer.
• Optimized For Mobile. We have adapted the plugin for mobile devices. Mobile users can obtain access to your locked content as well as desktop users.
• Fast Loading. The plugin is well optimized and doesn’t add extra loads on your website. Confirmed with tests from the P3 plugin and New Relic.
• Developer Friendly. Use the plugin events (Unlock, Lock, Ready) and hooks for customization and creating your own extensions.

Go Premium - Gain More Likes & Social Shares! It's a free edition of the premium plugin Social Locker. Although the free version is full-featured and you can use it without any limits, the premium version provides more features:

• 5 Extra Stunning Themes
• 8 Social Buttons
• Facebook Share
• Twitter Follow
• LinkedIn Share
• Google Share
• YouTube Subscribe
• Hide Lockers For Registered Users
• Countdown Timer & Close Cross
• ReLock & Delayed Lock
• Loading the locked content via Ajax
• Export Leads In CSV
• Dedicated support and more!

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• View Social Locker plugin demo.
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Install and activate the plugin.\ You will find 'Social Locker' menu in your WordPress admin panel.\ Use the shortcode [sociallocker] your content [/sociallocker] in post editor to lock content.

v.5.6.2 - 25 June 2020

• FIXED: The 403 error if the the option "Use Own Apps" is enabled.
• FIXED: A set of minor bugs.

v.5.6.1 - 7 June 2020

• FIXED: The css selector issue of the batch lock.
• FIXED: A set of minor bugs.

v.5.6.0 - 5 June 2020

• IMPROVED: Significant front-end performance optimization. The plugin doesn't pull the scripts of social networks for lockers using the styled buttons anymore.
• IMPROVED: Creating social apps are not required anymore for all the buttons. At the same time usage of own social apps is still available (if you wish to replace the app logo on the authorization screen with your website logo).
• IMPROVED: The plugin icon was replaced in the Wordpress menu to a monochrome icon. Also if you have both the plugins Social Locker and Opt-In Panda installed, their menu items will be grouped under the Social Locker menu (instead of BizPanda in the past).
• ADDED: The Sign-In Buttons make users logged-in automatically if the action "Create Account" is selected.
• ADDED: RTL support.
• FIXED: The warnings that were visible when the debug mode is enabled on WordPress.

v.5.5.5 - 8 May 2020

• ADDED: New styles for social buttons with an option to remove fully the native buttons and replacing them with the styled buttons Try the new feature in the locker editor: Social Options -> Sytes of Buttons (screenshot).
• ADDED: An option to change sizes of the styled buttons.
• UPDATED: All the locker themes are remastered and optimized for high resolution.
• FIXED: A set of minor bugs.

v.5.5.4 - 30 Apr 2020

• ADDED: Locker Blocks for Gutenberg. No needed to use shortcodes any more. But shortcodes are still available. Check out the Widgets section in the post editor
• ADDED: Features required to get the app approved on YouTube side. No more creating of Google App required. The Social Locker starts using its own Google App for YouTube that will be approved once for all users. At the moment the app is not approved yet but will be shortly.
• IMPROVED: Boosted speed of loading.
• UPDATED: The "How to Use" section.

v.5.5.2 - 20 Apr 2020

• FIXED: LinkedIn Share.
• FIXED: A set of minor bugs.

v.5.5.1 - 10 Apr 2020

• FIXED: Final Facebook Like button fix (works on mobile and non-signed in users).
• ADDED: Options to translate the text for the Like Confirm popup (Global Settings -> Front-end Text).

v.5.5.0 – 31 Mar 2020

• ADDED: Support for PHP 7.4.
• ADDED: Support for Facebook API 6.0.
• ADDED: Support for Wordpress 5.3.
• ADDED: Facebook Like button (works correctly now).
• UPDATED: Instructions on how to create social apps.
• FIXED: A set of minor bugs.

v.5.3.0 - 18 Dec 2018

• ADDED: Support for Wordpress 5 and Gutenberg.
• UPDATED: Instructions on how to create social apps.
• FIXED: A set of minor bugs.

v.5.2.6 - 9 Jul 2018

• FIXED: The error in the file leads.php #350.

v.5.2.5 - 8 Jul 2018

• ADDED: Zapier integration. Send data collected with your lockers to Zapier and then automatically pass them to thousands of web apps supported by Zapier.
• ADDED: Blocking Temporary Emails Addresses. Get only real leads interested in your services (optional).
• ADDED: Support for PHP 7. Speed up your Wordpress site by running it on the newest PHP version.
• UPDATED: The Help Section was supplemented by new pages: Zapier Integration, SSL Certificate.
• FIXED: The Twitter bug when the option Double Check caused an error.
• FIXED: A set of minor bugs.

Important: if you use CDN, please purge your CDN after installation of this update. v.5.2.1 - 24 May 2018

• ADDED: GDPR compatibility.
• ADDED: 2 new themes for Social Locker copied from Sign-In Locker.
• ADDED: An option to show references to Terms & Policies for Social Locker at bottom.
• ADDED: An option to display the Consent Checkbox to process personal data received via Sign-In Locker.
• FIXED: Minor bugs.

v.5.0.8 - 6 Mar 2018

• FIXED: The issue of auto unlocks for lockers containing the Facebook Like button.
• FIXED: The issue of counting stats data.

v.5.0.7 - 21 Jan 2018

• IMPROVED: Facebook Share button (works better on mobile).
• IMPROVED: Facebook Like button (includes support for the confirmation dialog).

v.5.0.5 - 19 Jan 2018

• FIXED: Fixed Facebook Like.
• FIXED: A lot of major and minor bugs.

v.4.5.6 - 13 Jan 2018

• FIXED: Some minor bugs.

v.4.5.5 - 21 Aug 2017

• FIXED: Google Plus and Google Share buttons (to use these buttons, you need to get a Google Client ID).
• UPDATED: Guides on how to register apps on Facebook and Google.
• FIXED: Minor bugs.

v.4.5.1 - 9 May 2017

• ADDED: In-App Browsers option - control how the locker should behave in mobile in-app browsers (Facebook In-App browser, Twitter In-App browser, Instagram In-App browser, VKontakte In-App browser). Check it out on the page Global Settings -> Lock Options.
• ADDED: AdBlock option - control how the locker should behave if any AdBlock extensions block loading of social buttons. Check it out on the page Global Settings -> Lock Options.
• FIXED: A bug of the page Leads when only the first 20 leads are visible.
• FIXED: A bug of the Visibility Conditions when the locker doesn't appear if any Advanced Visibility Conditions are set.
• FIXED: Minor bugs.

v.4.5.0 - 10 Apr 2017

• ADDED: Lock Delay - make the locker to appear only after a specified interval.
• ADDED: Permissions Settings - configure roles and permissions for getting access to the plugin features.
• ADDED: Notifications - get email notifications about new leads and unlocks.
• ADDED: Clone Feature - quickly create new lockers based on options of existing ones.
• ADDED:Support for Facebook API v.2.8
• IMPROVED: Compatibility with mobile devices.
• IMPROVED: Performance optimization.
• FIXED: Minor bugs.

v.4.3.7 - 19 Sep 2016

• IMPROVED: Performance optimization.
• FIXED: Minor bugs.

v.4.3.6 - 20 Jun 2016

• ADDED: Support for Facebook API v3.6.
• IMPROVED: The option "Lazy Loading" became stable and started working also for Sign-In Locker.
• IMPROVED: Integration with Opt-In Panda.
• FIXED: Bug of counting statistical metrics.
• FIXED: Other minor bugs.

v.4.3.5 - 29 Mar 2016

• FIXED: Facebook Like and Share Buttons.
• FIXED: A lot of other minor bugs.

v.4.3.2 - 14 Feb 2016

• NEW: Added a new option “Lazy Loading” to load social buttons only at the moment when the locker gets visible (for better performance): Global Settings -> Social Options -> Lazy Loading.
• NEW: The 'Clear All' button to clear all the Leads Data.
• FIXED: A lot of other minor bugs.

v.4.2.9 - 11 Dec 2015

• FIXED: Tweet button.
• ADDED: The option "Double Check" for the Tweet button.

v.4.2.6 - 12 Oct 2015

• IMPROVED: The button Twitter Sign-In now receives an email address of the user (by default works only with the default Twitter app, for custom apps, please see the updated section "How to create a Twitter app" in the help section of the plugin").
• IMPROVED: Added support for Facebook API v.2.5.
• IMPROVED: Compatibility with websites using SSL.
• FIXED: A bug when Facebook does not return an email of the user when using Facebook API v.2.4+.
• FIXED: A set of security issues.

v.4.2.5 - 26 Aug 2015

• NEW: Compatibility with WP 4.3.
• NEW: The Debug option explains now why the locker is not visible (Global Settings -> Lock Options -> Debug).
• IMPROVED: Compatibility with the plugin Opt-In Panda, that extends features of the Social Locker.
• IMPROVED: Compatibility of the options CSS Selector and Dynamic Theme.
• FIXED: A set of bugs of the Batch Lock.
• FIXED: The bug when the Starter theme is not available to select.
• FIXED: The bug when the links Terms and Privacy Policy point to the same page.
• FIXED: The option Highlight.
• FIXED: A set of security issues.

v.4.2.0 - 7 Jul 2015

• NEW: Added compatibility with the new free plugin from OnePress, Opt-In Panda, that extends features of the Social Locker.
• NEW: Pass Code. This feature allows to hide lockers if the pass code is specified in the URL.
• NEW: Added an option to hide the License Manager.

v.4.1.8 - 21 Apr 2015

• IMPROVED: Compatibility with WP 4.2.
• ADDED: Support for the Visual Composer (including the Batch Lock for content generated via VC).
• ADDED: A protection algorithm against AdBlock and other extensions which modify the page content.
• ADDED: Support for Facebook API v.2.3.
• ADDED: A new social button, YouTube Subscribe (premium version).
• ADDED: An option to shorten the Twitter Follow button (premium version).
• FIXED: The bug of the option Timeout.
• FIXED: A lot of other minor bugs which have been reported by users.

v.4.1.7 - 2 Apr 2015

• FIXED: A lot of minor issues reported by users.

v.4.1.6 - 20 Mar 2015

• FIXED: The bug of not displaying the TinyMCE editor when the plugin is activated.
• FIXED: The error "Call to undefined function opanda_get_panda_item_ids".

v.4.1.5 - 20 Mar 2015 - MAJOR UPDATE

• ADDED: The options to configure each social button individually (now you can set an own URL to like/tweet/+1 for each button).
• ADDED: The Sign-In Locker which asks the user to sign-in through social networks to unlock the content (while signing in, the locker receives a email of the user and some personal data).
• ADDED: The page Leads to display contacts of visitors who have signed-in on your website via the Sign-In Locker.
• ADDED: Information about our new plugin Opt-In Panda for building mailing lists.
• IMPROVED: The page Stats & Reports (got new metrics and reports).
• IMPROVED: The page Global Settings (added more options).

Warning: After updating all the previous data collected on the page Stats & Reports will be reset. Learn more in the article Notes on Updating Social Locker Up To v.4+. Warning: If something doesn't work after updating, just deactivate and activate the plugin again. Important: if you use CDN, please purge your CDN after installing this update. v.3.7.2 - 13 Oct 2014

• ADDED: The "Errors" screen on the page "Stats & Reports" to monitor how the locker works on your website.
• ADDED: A set of new advanced options.
• FIXED: The bug of the IE11 and the Twitter button.

Important: if you use CDN, please purge your CDN after installing this update. v.3.6.9 - 8 Sep 2014

• FIXED: The bug in IE when the button titles are not visible.
• FIXED: Minor CSS issues.
• ADDED: API for developers which allows to add own buttons.

v.3.6.5 - 29 Aug 2014

• ADDED: Support for Facebook API v2.0.

v.3.6.3 - 9 Aug 2014

• ADDED: The Comparison of the Free & Premium versions.
• ADDED: The option 'Actual URLs' on the page Global Settings.

v.3.6.2 - 2 Aug 2014

• FIXED: The blurring effect in Firefox.
• FIXED: IE10-11 and the Tweet Button issue.
• FIXED: The bug of collapsing the video when the blurring effect are applied to the 'iframe' element with the position 'absolute'.

v.3.5.9 - 17 Jul 2014

• NEW: The option to setup the locker position, if the Transparancy Mode or Blurring Mode are active.

v.3.5.8 - 22 Jun 2014

• NEW: The long-awaited option to overlap content and make it transparent or blurred (in the premium version only).
• IMPROVED: Support for Czech language.
• FIXED: A set of minor bugs and grammar/spelling mistakes on the "How To Use" page.

v.3.5.6 - 10 Jun 2014

• NEW: Support for shortcode attributes to change quickly some settings of the locker. For example: [sociallocker url="http://google.com"]. Available attributes: url, title, message, theme.

v.3.5.5 - 10 Jun 2014

• FIXED: A minor CSS issue in the admin dashboard.

v.3.5.4 - 09 Jun 2014

• IMPROVED: Support for dynamic content (which loads via ajax).
• IMPROVED: The plugin was optimized for better performance.
• FIXED: Minor bugs.

v.3.5.1 - 02 Jun 2014

• FIXED: The bug when the analytics doesn't count "likes".

v.3.5.0 - 30 May 2014

• NEW: StyleRoller released, a new add-on for creating own unique and attractive themes for Social Locker.
• NEW: Added the menu item "Add-Ons"
• FIXED: A lot of minor bugs.

v.3.4.5 - 19 May 2014

• FIXED: The CSS issue which appears in the Wordpress Dashboard for some users.

v.3.4.3 - 14 May 2014

• FIXED: The "remove_script_version" issue.

v.3.4.1 - 13 May 2014

• NEW: Added preloaders for the social buttons.
• NEW: Compatibility with some browser extensions like Avast!, PrivDog, AdBlock and others which can block social networks. If these extensions are detected and they break the locker, the plugin offers the user to turn them off.
• IMPROVED: Better support for Portuguese language.
• IMPROVED: Better support for German language.
• FIXED: The issue of the confirmation dialog of the Like button.
• FIXED: The issue of the Google +1 button when the locker doesn't reveal content for some locker configurations.
• FIXED: The QuotaExceededError issue.

Important: if you use CDN, please purge your CDN after installing the update. v.3.3.1 - 23 Apr 2014

• FIXED: A bug when the locker preview is not updating while editing the locker message.
• FIXED: Some internal infrastructure issues.

v.3.3.0 - 21 Apr 2014

• IMPROVED: Full compatibility with WP 3.9.
• IMPROVED: The Like button works a bit faster.
• FIXED: The IE10 issue.

v.3.2.9 - 31 Mar 2014

• FIXED: The IE8 issue.

v.3.2.8 - 26 Mar 2014

• IMPROVED: Compatibility with the "Responsive Lightbox by dFactory" plugin.

v.3.2.7 - 25 Mar 2014

• IMPROVED: The HTML and CSS structure of the Secrets theme was simplified. From now, it's possible to change the color of the covers of the social buttons via CSS.

v.3.2.6 - 20 Mar 2014

• NEW: Added integration with the Google Analytics (you can turn on this option on the Common Settings page).
• FIXED: A minor bug that can appear within upgrading the plugin from one version to another.

v.3.2.5 - 14 Mar 2014

• FIXED: The issue of the box-sizing css rule for some websites.
• FIXED: 'Unexpected error' while trying to get version details.

v.3.2.4 - 05 Mar 2014

• FIXED: a bug of the Interrelation option.
• NEW: added the "onp_sl_locker_options" filter for developers to change the locker options through php.

v.3.2.3 - 02 Mar 2014

• FIXED: A lot of minor bugs.
• FIXED: A conflict with the FormCraft plugin.

v.3.2.1 - 25 Feb 2014

• FIXED: Unable to change the language of the Twitter and Google buttons.

v.3.2.0 - 24 Feb 2014

• NEW: A new menu item "How to use?" containing an instruction and recommendations on how to use the plugin.
• NEW: Customer accounts that allow to move license keys between sites, and view where they were activated.

• FIXED: Shifting of the Facebook Like button.
• FIXED: The bug of the preview in the locker editor.
• FIXED: The bug of the trimmed social buttons on Polish and Spanish sites.
• FIXED: Minor bug of the batch locking feature.

v.3.0.9 - 15 Jan 2014

• FIXED: The bug of disappearing of lockers on using the W3 Total Cache plugin.

v.3.0.8 - 10 Jan 2014

• NEW: Added the Interrelation option. When set On, it makes lockers interrelated. When any interrelated locker on your site is unlocked, the rest others will be unlocked too. You can find this option on the Common Settings page.
• NEW: Added an ability to clear statistical data. You can find this option on the Common Settings page.

• FIXED: The bug that breaks lockers on using some complex configurations of the W3 Total Cache plugin.
• FIXED: The bug that shows incorrect statistical data on the Usage Statistics page.

v.3.0.6 - 2 Jan 2014

• IMPROVED: Unlocking content after clicking the Like button got more quickly.

v.3.0.5 - 30 Dec 2013

• IMPROVED: Images of the plugin were put into a sprite (a single image). Using image sprites reduces the number of server requests and saves bandwidth.
• IMPROVED: The Facebook Share button was updated and became localizable.
• IMPROVED: Better support for IE 11.
• FIXED: A bug of impossibility to unlock content in IE 11.
• FIXED: A bug of the locker preview in the admin panel.

v.3.0.2 - 24 Dec 2013

• FIXED: The Asset Manager fatal error that occurs on some websites.
• FIXED: The bug when lockers appear every time even if they were unlocked already.

3.0.0 - 19 Dec 2013

• NEW: The Bulk Locking Option that allows to apply a locker shortcode to all posts automatically by using 3 different modes (Skip & Lock, More Tag, CSS Selector).
• NEW: The Lock Delay Option that shows the locker only in posts older than specified age.
• NEW: User interface fully compatible with the recently released WP 3.8.
• FIXED: A lot of minor bugs.

2.2.7 - 5 Oct 2013

• IMPROVED: Performance optimization.
• IMPROVED: Added several new internal hints and tips.
• FIXED: A bug of not being able to activate a license key manually.

2.2.4 - 1 Sep 2013 FIXED: A bug when the locker doesn't show content after liking because the URL for liking doesn't have a traling slash.\ FIXED: A conflict with W3 Total Cache when the locker doesn't appear. Important: if you use CDN, please refresh files on your CDN server after installing the update. 2.2.3 - 21 Aug 2013 FIXED: The bug of appearing the lockers after updating to the version 2.2.2 on some sites. 2.2.2 - 20 Aug 2013 IMPROVED: Compatibility with W3 Total Cache. 2.2.1 - 9 Aug 2013 ADDED: Support for dynamic themes (that load pages on the fly via ajax).\ FIXED: The bug of chinese languages.\ IMPROVED: Support for pagination of posts. 2.1.8 - 13 Jun 2013 FIXED: A bug when it was impossible to use at the same time Social Locker and Like 2 Unlock for some sites.\ FIXED: A bug when the activation is failed because the default location of wordpress files are changed.\ IMPROVED: Add support of servers where the php function token_get_all is not available. 2.1.6 - 03 May 2013 FIXED: The bug of the statistical tools. Thank you bosemajor. 2.1.5 - 18 Apr 2013 NEW: Increased reliability against conflicts with other plugins.\ FIXED: Minor bugs of the google buttons. 2.1.4 - 11 Apr 2013 FIXED: The bug of the shortcode [page_title] in the tweet message. Thank Sharif Khalladi for finding it.\ FIXED: The bug when the message offering to change the plugin assembly appears even if the assemble is correct.\ FIXED: Minor conflicts with other social plugins. 2.1.3 - 27 Mar 2013 FIXED: The bug that shows a default locker message even when the message was cleaned.\ FIXED: The minor LinkedIn button bug that shows an error message in javascript console.\ FIXED: The little CSS bug that moves the social buttons in some themes (thank Antonio Insa). 2.1.2 - 25 Mar 2013 FIXED: Common improvements of the plugin performance. 2.1.1 - 19 Mar 2013 FIXED: The bug of oEmbed inside the lockers. 2.1.0 - 14 Mar 2013 FIXED: The bug of East European languages in the locker header.\ FIXED: The bug of loading Facebook SDK without a locker on a page.\ FIXED: The bug of the buttons titles. 2.0.8 - 9 Mar 2013 FIXED: The bug of the locker message editor in the admin area. 2.0.7 - 6 Mar 2013 FIXED: The bug in the post editor. 2.0.6 - 6 Mar 2013 NEW: Statistical tools become available for free edition! 2.0.2 - 24 Feb 2013 Initial commit.\ We starts with the second version because this is a free edition of a already existing premium plugin.