custom pages are not restricted

Dear All,

although I am using the Page Restrict plugin (2.2.0), it does not matter if I use “All” as restriction method (in the plugin settings) or “Selected” and simply select the pages I want to restrict.

If I use “All” or “Selected” and make sure that the page “Foo Bar” is selected, but I made a custom page page-foo-bar.php in my themes-folder, apparently the settings for Page Restrict will be ignored.

Is this expected behaviour? Even though I make sure that the custom page uses <div class="content">...</div> ?

Currently I solved the issue by adding the following code at the top of each custom page:

<?php
if (!is_user_logged_in())
{
	header("Location: ".get_bloginfo('url'));
	exit;
}
?>

As such, any time a not-loggedin user will be redirected to the root of my WordPress-site where the login form will be shown.

Is this a correct way of solving this issue, of am I mis-using the plugin?

Thank you, kind greetings and best Christmas-wishes,

Wim

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