WordPress - Restrict Content Pro - Premium Content Plugin

Restrict Content Pro is a complete subscription and premium content manager plugin for WordPress. Create an unlimited number of subscription levels, including free, trial and premium. Manage member’s and their subscriptions, track payments, offer discounts with a complete discount code system, and provide premium, members only content to your subscribers.

Very Simple to Use

With all of the features you need to set up premium content at your finger tips, Restrict Content Pro makes it extremely easy to deliver premium content to your subscribers.

With multiple methods of restricting content, you will find it quite simple to restrict entire posts / pages or just portions of them. Want to show content to premium users only? No problem. Want to show content to non-registered users only (such as a signup form)? No problem. Want to show content to non-registered users and non-premium users? This is simple too.

Members Management

Restrict Content Pro includes a complete member management system that lets you easily view all active, pending, expired, cancelled, and free users. Member’s subscriptions can be added or modified at anytime. Discount codes used and payments made by members are all tracked, so you can easily view every payment made or discount code used by any member. Subscription packages can include expiration dates, and members’ subscription statuses are automatically changed when they reach their expiration date.

Unlimited Subscription Packages

With Restrict Content Pro you can create an unlimited number of subscription packages. Each subscription level includes a name, description, duration, and price. You can easily create free, trial, and premium subscriptions. Member counts for all subscription levels are tracked as well, so you can quickly see which subscription levels are the most popular.

A user’s subscription level is chosen during the registration process. All subscription levels are shown to the user in an attractive manner on the registration page. View the Join the Site page on Pippin’s Plugins.com to view a sample of the registration page and subscription levels.

All subscription levels include the option for one-time payments and recurring payments. While registering, users simply choose whether they want a non-renewing subscription that expires at a set time, or an automatically renewing subscription.

Each subscription level can receive an “access level”. This determines the level of content this subscription grants access to, so you can easily give access to special content for your “gold” members, and then slightly less access for your “silver” members, or any other combination.

Integrated with PayPal Payments

All subscription payments are made via PayPal, allowing extremely fast and secure transactions. When a user signs up for a subscription, their account is automatically activated when the payment is complete. If a user has signed up for a subscription and then chooses to cancel it later on, their account on your website is automatically disabled as well, once the subscription reaches its end of term.

Additional payment gateways coming soon.

Discount Codes

Offer promotional discounts to subscribers with the complete discount code system built into Restrict Content Pro.

Create an unlimited number of discount codes and offer percentage or flat rate based discounts. Every time a discount code is used, it is tracked so that you can view the total number of times a discount is used, and it is also recorded to the details page of the member that used the discount.

Codes can be made active / inactive at any time and also have a protection system built-in that prevents users from using a discount more than once. Discount codes can be given automatica expiration dates and also set to have a max number of uses.

Payment Tracking

Every payment made to your website through Restrict Content Pro is recorded to the database for easy payment tracking. The Payments page of the plugin will display all payments recorded in the system, including the details of the payment, and will provide a number for the total amount of earnings made through the plugin.

Payments made by members are also recorded to the user’s meta information, allowing you to view every payment made by an individual user.

Data Export

In order to accommodate your own methods of tracking earnings and subscription sign ups, Restrict Content Pro includes an export function that allows you to download a CSV o all members or payments. You can generate a CSV of all active members of any particular subscription level, or a CSV of every member in the system. You can also generate a CSV of every payment that has been made.

The CSVs exported from Restrict Content Pro can then be used in whatever way you feel best. For example, you could export all of your expired members, then import them directly into Mail Chimp or aWeber and send them a special email newsletter encouraging them to renew their subscription. Or you could drop the payments CSV into your own financial tracking software.

Easy to Set Up

With just the right number of configuration settings, Restrict Content Pro is extremely simple to setup.

You can easily configure the messages that are displayed to non-authorized users when they try to view premium content; you can enter your PayPal email (for payments) and choose your currency easily. Also choose to enable jQuery validation on the registration and change password forms; configure the emails that are sent out to users when the sign up or modify their subscription.

A Sandbox (testing) mode is also included that allows you to test the plugin with PayPal before receiving any actual payments to ensure everything is functioning correctly.

Extensive Help

Every page of the plugin’s administrative interface includes a contextual Help tab that provides you relevant information at your finger tips. Forget about the hassle of opening an external documentation to find what you need; it’s all right there.

Also included with the plugin, is an additional built-in help page that includes documentation on all aspects of the plugin not covered in the Help tabs. In the Help page, is also a selection of introductory over view videos that give you simple, quick explanations of how to set up the plugin.

Support

All support for this plugin is now provided through my dedicated support forum. Please go there to ask support related questions.

Setup Overview Videos

Add-On Plugins

Stripe Payment Gateway

Accept credit cards directly on your site’s registration page. This means the user never leaves your site and has a much smoother, more uniform experience. Stripe.com is by far one of the best ways to start accepting credit card payments, and this add-on plugin lets you integrate Stripe right into Restrict Content Pro.

Check out the Stripe Payment Gateway.

Mail Chimp

Add Mail Chimp integration to the Restrict Content Pro registration form with the free Mail Chimp Add-on. The add-on plugin will add an option for your users, both new and existing, to signup for your email newsletter during the registration process.

Head over to Pippin’s Plugins to get the add-on for free.

Math Verification Captcha

With this add-on, you can add a simple math verification field to your membership registration form. In order to signup, the user must complete the simple addition problem.

Get the Math Verification Add-On

Earnings Graphs

With this add-on, you will have a new “Graphs” added to your Restrict menu for Restrict Content Pro.

This new page will display graphs of both monthly earnings for the current year, and also active members per subscription level.

Get the Graphs Add-On

Updates and changelog

Version 1.1.8

Fixed a bug that caused non-active members to have an expiration date of 1970 in the [subscription_details] shortcode.
Improved the registration form CSS slightly.
Added a new advanced query arg that can be used on the Members page in the admin for displaying all members that signed up live vs. those that were added by admins.
Added missed jQuery UI theme images for the datepicker.
Fixed the double message problem with admin alert emails.

Version 1.1.7.2

Fixed a formatting bug with the discounts table when no codes have been created yet.
Fixed a formatting bug with the subscriptions levels table when no levels have been created yet.
Fixed the data type of the payment\’s table “amount” column.

Version 1.1.7

Added a cron job that checks for expired users every day and sends an email to the user when they have expired.
Fixed a bug were subscription access levels were reset to 0 when editing.
Fixed a few issues with utf8 encoding.

Version 1.1.6

Added a meta box option for restricting content based upon the subscription level.
Added a “subscription=ID” parameter to the [restrict] short code for limiting content to specific subscription levels.
Updated Help page with information about access levels and restricting to subscription levels.
Improved some admin CSS and jQuery loading.
Improved the layout of the “Restrict this Content” metabox so that it can now be placed in the side column.
Added new demonstration videos to the Help page on how to restrict content.

Version 1.1.5

Moved the “members per page” and “payments per page” to the screen options tab.
Added FAQs to the Help page.
Added a div.rcp-payment-history around the user\’s payment history.
Added missing class attribute to “no payments recorded” message in the [subscription_details] shortcode.

Version 1.1.4

Added support for access level restriction on free content.
Added do_shortcode() to the [is_not_paid] short code.
Made the first subscription level checked by default on the registration page.
Added missing HTML element classes to the registration form.

Version 1.1.3

Released the Math Verification add-on: http://codecanyon.net/item/restrict-content-pro-math-verification/1876095
Fixed an undefined variable bug in the front end JS.
Added option to redirect default WP login URL to custom page.
Added and in-dashboard plugin updater so that new releases can be updated to automatically from Wordpress.
Fixed a bug with the “Hide Premium Posts” option.

Version 1.1.2

Released the Stripe.com Payment Gateway add-on plugin.
Added the “rcp_add_discount” and “rcp_edit_discount” processing hooks.
Added the “rcp_levels_below_table”, “rcp_members_below_table”, and “rcp_discounts_below_table” actions.
Updated the function that checks for an existing payment to not cause problems with add-on gateways.
Fixed a bug with the restricted messages shown to users when restricting by userlevel.

Version 1.1.1

Fixed a bug with the members page pagination.
Added the “rcp_payments_page_bottom” and “rcp_payments_page_top” action hooks.
Added the “rcp_metabox_excluded_post_types” filter hook.
Added the “rcp_metabox_priority” filter hook.
Fixed a bug with the filter hooks connected to the admin email messages.
Added the “rcp_subscription_details” filter.
Added the “rcp_subscription_details_list” filter.
Updated subscription levels to include the ability to deactivate levels without entirely deleting them.
Fixed problem with cached subscription levels when deleting levels.
Added the “rcp_registration_header_logged_out” filter”.
Added the “rcp_registration_header_logged_in” filter”.
Updated registration form localization
Added the “rcp_after_password_registration_field” hook.
Fixed a bug with the [not_logged_in] short code

Version 1.1.0

Added “Forgot your Password” form to Login Form.
Added logout link to the login form when logged in.
Action and filter reference updated with new actions and filters.
Payment histories are now cached for improved performance in the admin.
Subscription levels are now cached to improve performance.
Updated login / registration functions to remove depreciated functions.
Fixed admin layouts on screens with a resolution of < 1280px.
Added option to view all members of a particular subscription level.
Updated discount codes to bypass payment gateways if set to 100%.
Added live jQuery validation to discount codes.
Fixed a bug with the option that redirects non-authorized users away from premium content.
Updated plugin infrastructure to allow additional payment gateways to be created.
Changed the form processing hooks on the login and change password forms.

Version 1.0.3

Added new filter to choose the order (DESC/ASC) members are displayed on the members page.
Added new action hooks on the payments page so new columns can be added by add-on plugins.
Added new action hooks on the subscription levels page so new columns can be added by add-on plugins.
Added new action hooks on the discounts page so new columns can be added by add-on plugins.
Added new action hooks on the members page so new columns can be added by add-on plugins.
Changed order of Members page to display with newest at top.
When adding member subscriptions manually, expiration dates are automatically calculated.
Fixed [paid_posts] short code to only show published posts.
Added an expiration date for discount codes.
Added a maximum use option for discount codes.
Updated post types that meta boxes are added to.

Version 1.0.2

Added option to disable cURL for the PayPal IPN
Added option to disable the auto renew option
Improved settings page layout
Updated registration function structure to allow additional gateways to be added
Added payment history to the [subscription_details] short code
Added the $user_id to the rcp_form_processing hook
Updated the [login_form] shortcode with “redirect” and “class” parameters.

Version 1.0.1

Added French translation
Updated localization on several elements in the plugin that were previously untranslatable
Added new action hooks that can be used to add additional info to the admin emails
Add an option to choose the reCaptcha theme
Added “registered_message” parameter to the [register_form] short code for changing the message that is displayed to users who already have an active account and attempt to view the registration page
Added the [user_name] short code. It can be used to show the display name of the currently logged-in user
Added option for SSL . This was needed for reCaptcha for users using SSL on their registration pages with reCaptcha enabled
Fixed a bug with the redirect option for hiding all premium posts