simple-restrict

Simple Restrict

Restrict pages based on permissions assigned to pages and granted in user profiles.

authorization hide permission restrict restrict pages

27.2 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

1.0Kactive installs

33.7Kdownloads

4.9rating

0unresolved threads

3complaints analyzed

14praise analyzed

Proof Health

Open evidence

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73.2% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

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0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days

166recent 30 days 175previous 30 days -5.1%movement 1.1Kshown total

Related Opportunities

2 markets

Needs sharper proof Hide: Admin and client-governance operations admin and client-governance operations · final 75.1 · proof partial Needs sharper proof Restrict: Access control and account operations access control and account operations · final 70.4 · proof partial

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.83

Is this plugin still supported?

Is this plugin still supported?: users show security, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Is this plugin still supported?

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84

Plugin uploads but won’t activate

Plugin uploads but won’t activate: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Plugin uploads but won’t activate Hi, I’ve been using your plugin for a while now and found it very helpful indeed.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84

Role for user editors.

Role for user editors.: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

But now, users editors can not configure access to restricted pages when they add the new user.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84

Subscribers Resetting Permissions

Subscribers Resetting Permissions: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Subscribers Resetting Permissions Hello, Perhaps this comes down to me using a newer version of wordpress than this app is updated to, however I’m having a strange bug with the plugin.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Redirect Bug on Sub Folder Install

Redirect Bug on Sub Folder Install: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Redirect Bug on Sub Folder Install When “redirect to login” option is enabled, the plugin will redirect to root folder when wordpress has been installed to a sub folder.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Error updating a user profile

Error updating a user profile: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Error updating a user profile Using WP 5.6.1 – updating any user profile generates the error text below and the user is not updated.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Nested links asking for login again

Nested links asking for login again: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Nested links asking for login again I have simple restrict setup and have several pages marked “sec101” for example….

question support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Restrict page with login

Restrict page with login: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Restrict page with login Guys, it may be a stupid question, but I didn’t quite get it how to force users to login (or create an account) on specific pages where I want it to happen.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Translate the limited access message

Translate the limited access message: users show missing feature, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Translate the limited access message Hello, I use Simple Restriction for my site that features 2 languages with Polylang (French and English, French being the main language).

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Update restriction status with Webhooks

Update restriction status with Webhooks: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Investigate Pain card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

With this webhook, I change the role to a custom one, as well as sending an action for WordPress to perform after the user has been created.

Competitor Context

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Keyring praise owner · intel 75.2 · weakness 65.9

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stale update history 13 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts

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Collected Signals

20 shown from 45 collected

mixed Not for All Pages (4 stars) review · 2025-07-09T03:56:36+00:00 · low severity · hide

The reviewer says the restriction plugin cannot hide content on pages created with template files.

Evidence: This plugin cannot hide the content of pages created with template files.

missing feature template page restriction admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Is this plugin still supported? support · 2024-02-03T11:46:02+00:00 · high severity · hide

Is this plugin still supported?: users show security, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is this plugin still supported?

security missing feature support reliable admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Restrict acces in custom page “project” support · 2022-10-10T12:54:06+00:00 · low severity · hide

Restrict acces in custom page “project”: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Restrict acces in custom page “project” Hi, it is possible use the simple restrict plugin in pages and in project pages?

missing feature easy reliable admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Adding new user support · 2021-07-01T18:30:11+00:00 · low severity · hide

Adding new user: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: But when login – goes to my admin page rather than logging in as a customer and viewing website.

support reliable value login admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Is the plugin support the gutenberg editor block group? support · 2021-02-19T03:54:09+00:00 · low severity · hide

Is the plugin support the gutenberg editor block group?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is the plugin support the gutenberg editor block group?

missing feature support easy admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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complaint Error updating a user profile support · 2021-02-08T21:10:50+00:00 · medium severity · hide

Error updating a user profile: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error updating a user profile Using WP 5.6.1 – updating any user profile generates the error text below and the user is not updated.

bugs compatibility setup easy admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Still up-to-date? support · 2020-08-06T15:00:08+00:00 · low severity · hide

Still up-to-date?: users show pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I was about to use it to restrict access to my paid content.

pricing reliable value admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Translate the limited access message support · 2020-07-24T11:33:35+00:00 · medium severity · hide

Translate the limited access message: users show missing feature, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Translate the limited access message Hello, I use Simple Restriction for my site that features 2 languages with Polylang (French and English, French being the main language).

missing feature pricing support easy admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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neutral Plugin still active? support · 2020-06-25T06:00:28+00:00 · medium severity · hide

Plugin still active?: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Plugin still active? Does this plugin work with version 5.4.2 ? Does this plugin work with version 5.4.2 ? Yes it does Ok, thx 🙂 Yes it does Ok, thx 🙂

admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Plugin Active after Deactivation support · 2020-05-29T18:17:48+00:00 · medium severity · hide

Plugin Active after Deactivation: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hi this plugin is still active after I deactivated and deleted.

support setup easy value admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Nested links asking for login again support · 2020-05-01T19:59:07+00:00 · medium severity · hide

Nested links asking for login again: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Nested links asking for login again I have simple restrict setup and have several pages marked “sec101” for example….

bugs support setup easy admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Simple Restrict with Gravity Forms integration support · 2020-04-29T13:31:30+00:00 · low severity · hide

Simple Restrict with Gravity Forms integration: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Simple Restrict with Gravity Forms integration Hello Thanks for that good plugin I have a question How to make a user after submit the form (gravity form plugin) , Enter to the list of Subscriber permission Indeed Simple Restrict with Gravity Forms integration Hello Thanks for that good plugin I have a question How to make a user after submit the form (gravi

missing feature easy form admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Temporarily Unavailable support · 2020-04-22T04:08:43+00:00 · low severity · hide

Temporarily Unavailable: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Temporarily Unavailable Hi Simple Restrict, These 2 days the admin dashboard is fine using chrome.

missing feature support easy login admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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praise OMG! AMAZING RESTRICTION (5 stars) review · 2020-04-19T23:41:01+00:00 · medium severity · hide

OMG! AMAZING RESTRICTION: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This plugin can be restricted pages more than other membership plugins can’t do… After I installed and set.

missing feature setup reliable value admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed BUDDPRESS PROFILE support · 2020-04-19T21:56:15+00:00 · medium severity · hide

BUDDPRESS PROFILE: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: BUDDPRESS PROFILE Hi, simple-restrict, I just installed your plugin and it works like a charm 🙂 However, there is one area I still can access by typing in the full path, that’s the BuddyPress user’s profile.

support setup easy reliable admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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praise Awesome (5 stars) review · 2020-03-13T13:47:07+00:00 · medium severity · hide

Awesome: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: This is an EXCELLENT plugin.

quality admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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mixed Plans for the feature? support · 2020-02-05T23:39:20+00:00 · low severity · hide

Plans for the feature?: users show missing feature, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plans for the feature?

missing feature pricing support admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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question Bulk Add/Remove Permissions support · 2020-01-23T23:15:35+00:00 · low severity · hide

Bulk Add/Remove Permissions: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: There’s no bulk importing with this plugin.

migration import admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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complaint Redirect Bug on Sub Folder Install support · 2020-01-12T23:29:34+00:00 · medium severity · hide

Redirect Bug on Sub Folder Install: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Redirect Bug on Sub Folder Install When “redirect to login” option is enabled, the plugin will redirect to root folder when wordpress has been installed to a sub folder.

bugs missing feature setup easy admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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question Restrict Page based on User Role support · 2019-11-07T14:30:12+00:00 · low severity · hide

Restrict Page based on User Role: users show missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Or perhaps consider this a feature request?

missing feature pricing admin and client-governance operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit hide admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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