Restringing blog access with User Access Manager

  • Hi, I’m trying to use User Access Manager to restrict access to the blog of the member-only website to only logged-in members. But it doesn’t show the login form if I click on the blog link, and allows to click-through to the blog, although instead of the title it shows that this content is restricted. But if I click on it, I still go to the post and not prompted to login.

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  • Thread Starter pixelwiz

    (@pixelwiz)

    Hi, is there any way to restrict the blog access with your User Access Manager plugin?

    Hi,

    You must understand the main mechanisms.

    With WP you have two types of “users”, the visitors and the users.

    To be a user anybody must login.

    You can with WP basis (without UAM) define users groups (administrators, author registered… are default). Each group have right that you can define (the best is to use the plugin “User Groups Manager”. A user can be associated to several groups.

    With WP any published document can be basically viewed by anybody (UAM allows to limit this)

    Now to restrict access to documents you have several way and plugins.

    It you use UAM you will define a “group”, which establish links of rights between documents (and other objects) documents and users groups allowing for several checked groups od users (group of groups) if they have for the group (of documents) :
    – right to read or not
    – right to modify (edit) or not

    The most simple case is to create a group of documents (UAM group) for “simple registered users group” and allow simply ‘read’.

    Any document which his attached to this group of documents will be visible only by “registered users”, which is your aim.

    To get a clear vision of this structure and be able to build groups you need to draw your structure with the different objects :
    – user
    – group of users
    – basic rights
    – UAM
    – UAM groups (of documents) built of
    – users groups for UAM
    – right for read
    – right for edit
    – documents – posts – (and other objects which can be associated to UAM groups)

    You must draw each instance of typical structure of relations.

    Note the nature of the interaction between WP rights of groups of users and UAM groups : a user which have not right to edit or view an object by his WP group will not be ever allowed by UAM to do so. UAM limits the rights for groups of documents. A document attached to several groups adds the rights.

    Good luck

    Best regards

    Trebly

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