Is Restrict Content Pro overkill for a small course site?
Restrict Content Pro is a good membership plugin. If all you need is for Lesson 2 to open three days after Lesson 1, it is solving a different problem than the one you have.
Restrict Content Pro is a good membership plugin. If all you need is for Lesson 2 to open three days after Lesson 1, it is solving a different problem than the one you have.
New members disappear because they do not know where to start. A three-stage drip sequence — day 0, day 7, day 30 — gives them a path instead of an archive.
An eight-week evergreen programme delivered a week at a time, with no membership plugin and no LMS. Pages, unlock rules, checkout and what the client sees.
Most content-gating plugins require WooCommerce because they were built for e-commerce first. Date-based gating needs a date and a rule — not a shopping cart.
Scheduling controls when a post becomes public. A content lock controls who can read it and from when. Here is the difference, when to use each, and how to combine them.
Twenty-four posts, twenty-four unlock dates, one landing page. How to build a WordPress advent calendar in November so December runs itself.
A launch page that exists, shows a countdown, and reveals itself at a precise moment. How to run timed promotions, early-access reveals and waitlist drops on WordPress.
A live countdown on your locked content tells students exactly when to come back. How the timer works, how to switch it on, which of the three templates to use, and how to write the message and CTA around it.
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
A step-by-step guide to locking WordPress content by date for logged-in users — the exact panel settings, what users see, and how to test it.