How to Use MemberPress Content Protection Rules
Published: 2022-02-01 14:27:50

_Restricting content might sound counterintuitive. After all, you want as many visitors as possible to view your website. However, sometimes you can benefit from protecting posts and pages from specific users, especially if you’re running a membership site.
Fortunately, restricting content is easy with our MemberPress plugin. You can apply rules to your entire site or specific posts or pages to control who can see what. This gives you a lot of flexibility and can help you strategize more effectively._



**Why You Might Want to Use Content Protection Rules on Your Membership Site**

Publishing free content is crucial if you want to build expertise and a solid customer base. However, you might eventually want to reward your committed subscribers with exclusive posts or generate passive revenue by publishing downloadable e-books or webinars users can stream from your site.
Using MemberPress content protection rules can help you achieve these goals. You can offer a mix of free and paid material, give your users access to premium content for a limited time, and much more.
For instance, you might want to offer a free e-book to anyone who subscribes to your website, or exclusive webinars to users who purchase premium memberships. You can achieve these by implementing some of MemberPress' content protection rules.
This an excellent business model for anyone who offers digital products. You can take advantage of all the benefits of content marketing and other lead generation strategies while still maintaining control over who has access to your valuable e-books, articles, videos, or images.



**1. Set Member Specific Rules**

MemberPress lets you decide whether you want your content to be accessible to a specific membership tier, individual members, or a combination of both. This is useful for a few different reasons.
First, it enables you to maximize your revenue by upselling members. You can encourage them to upgrade their memberships to gain access to more content.
It also enables you to allow specific users to view your protected areas regardless of their membership status. This is useful for making sure your team can see your entire site, giving free access to certain people, and more.



**2. Create Drips and Expirations**

This functionality is useful if you want to strategically release your content, tease your audience with new offers, or create limited-time deals. All of these techniques can boost your membership signups.
Dripping content means it will become available after a specified action is complete. You can choose to release a document, post, or page once a user registers to your site, after they purchase a specific membership, or on a certain date.
You may also drip partial content, meaning unregistered users might see the first three paragraphs of a post, but have to sign up to read the whole thing. This is another popular strategy for securing memberships.
Additionally, you get to determine the number of days, weeks, months, or even years your content should be available. For instance, you might want to offer access to a specific page for one month following registration. After that period, the page will become restricted, and the user will see a message that tells them they're not authorized to view it.



**3. Experiment with Advanced Rules**

Finally, there are a couple of advanced strategies you can implement with content protection rules. As we briefly mentioned above, you can use MemberPress to restrict partial content.
The plugin's partial content codes can help you protect single paragraphs, images, or widgets. Simply use a shortcode or a PHP snippet to hide the selected portions.
If you're familiar with regex, you can also create protections for anything that matches your expression. For example, you can protect specific directories that contain exclusive content.



**Reference Blog**
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