What Is Easy Digital Downloads Content Restriction?
The Content Restriction extension for Easy Digital Downloads enables you to easily limit access to your website’s content based on customer purchases. By linking content access to product ownership, you can control who views certain pages, posts, or custom post types (including bbPress forums). This makes it ideal for membership sites, premium tutorials, courses, or exclusive articles sold via your EDD store.

Why Choose Easy Digital Downloads Content Restriction?

• Full Content Restriction: Restrict entire posts, pages, or custom post types by selecting which EDD products must be purchased for access.

• Partial Content Restriction: Use the [edd_restrict]...[/edd_restrict] shortcode to limit only specific content fragments within a page or post to paying customers.

• Flexible Product Conditions: Restrict access based on one or multiple product purchases with OR logic, or allow access based on any purchase in your store.

• Subscription Integration: With Recurring Payments support, restrict content access only to customers with active subscriptions, enhancing membership functionality.

• Software Licensing Integration: Restrict content further to only active license holders, perfect for SaaS or software product sellers.

• Customizable Messages: Show tailored messages to users without access, encouraging them to purchase the required product.

• Easy Setup: Adds a simple meta box on compatible post types for content restriction settings directly in the editor.

• Works With Multiple Content Types: Restrict posts, pages, forums, topics, and custom post types widely.

How It Works

1. Activate the Content Restriction extension on your Easy Digital Downloads site.

2. Edit any post, page, or custom post type, where you will find a Content Restriction section to select required products or subscriptions.

3. Use shortcodes for partial restriction, wrapping content within [edd_restrict id="product_id"]…[/edd_restrict] to protect only parts of the page.

4. Configure custom messages to notify visitors they need to purchase to view content.

5. Restrict access dynamically based on purchases, active subscriptions, or valid license keys.

This extension effectively turns your Easy Digital Downloads store into a membership system by tying access rights directly to product ownership, simplifying membership sales and premium content gating without complex third-party memberships.

Perfect for businesses and creators who want to sell digital products alongside exclusive content wrapped in an easy-to-manage access control system.