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by Jörn Lund
4.5 (17 reviews)
Access Areas for WordPress
Fine tuning access to your posts.
Compatible with WP 6.9
v1.5.22
Current Version v1.5.22
Updated 1 month ago
Last Update on 05 Dec, 2025
Synced 12 hours ago
Last Synced on
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Review 4.5 out of 5
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- Version
- 1.5.22
- Last Updated
- Dec 05, 2025
- Requires WP
- 4.6+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- 5.6 or higher
- Author
- Jörn Lund
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- Reviews
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Access Areas for WordPress
Because the plugin can only protect posts, which are database entries. A media also contains a file stored on your servers file system. A file is normally just returned by the server, the WordPress core is not involved. In order to protect a file, let's say an image, the Image URL would have to be point to a special Script, that decides whether the file is protected or not, and if so, which user or group of users would be granted access. A lot of processing would be going on, and each and every little thumbnail would add another one or two seconds to your page load time. The result: Tears, rage and support requests.
For each Post it stores a capabilty the user needs to have in order to view, edit or comment on a post. By defining an Access Area you create nothing more than a custom capability.
I did this mainly for performance reason. For detecting the reading-permission on specific content, the plugin mainly affects the WHERE clause used to retrieve posts. In most cases, using post_meta would mean to add lots of JOIN clauses to the database query, slowing down your site's performance.
It makes changes to your database, but it won't make a mess out of it. Upon install it does two things: 1. It creates a table named ´{$wp_prefix}_disclosure_userlabels´. The access areas you define are here. 2. It adds three columns to Your Posts tables: post_view_cap and post_comment_cap. Upon uninstall these changes will be removed completely, as well as it will remove any custom generated capability from your user's profiles. I'd like to do some more magic / science with it. And yes: I can code! Developer documentation can be found in the project wiki.
Please do so in the GitHub Repository.
Pull request are welcome in the GitHub Repository.