Access Areas for WordPress
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Fine tuning access to your posts.
Rating
4.5/5
Version
1.5.22
Active installations
400
Last updated
Dec 5, 2025
WP Access Areas lets you fine-tune who may read, edit or comment on your Blog posts. You can either restrict access to logged-in uses only, certain WordPress-Roles or even custom Access Areas.
Features
- Define custom Access Areas and assign them to your blog-users
- Restrict reading, editing and commenting permission to logged-in users, certain WordPress-Roles or Access Areas
- define global access areas on a network
- Supports bulk editing
- German, Italian, Polish and Swedish localization (Huge Thankyou @ all translators!)
Known Issues
- WordPress calendar Widget still shows dates where restricted posts have been created. When clicked on such a date a 404 will occur. There is an open WordPress Core ticket on that issue.
- Taxonomy menus (e.g. Tags / Categories) also count restricted posts when the total number of posts in a taxonomy is ascertained. See this post for details.
Development
Please head over to the source code on Github.
This plugin is available for download for your site.
