10 Best Page and Post Restriction Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Page and Post Restriction has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Page and Post Restriction
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Restrict
Closest matchRestrict – membership, site, content and user access restrictions for WordPress
4.2 (25) 2,000+ active installsRestrict content easily to logged in users, members with a specific role or user capability, to it's author, Tickera, Venuera, Easy Digital Downl …
Shares the Restrict access, restrict content tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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4.9 (32) 6,000+ active installsThis plugin offers a simple way to restrict visits to select pages only to logged-in users and allows for page redirection to an existing login page.
Shares the page restriction tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated February 26, 2026.
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4.5 (26) 2,000+ active installsRestrict permissions with Simple Client Dashboard. Our new "Admin" user role between Administrator and Editor is perfect for clients and Webmasters.
Shares the Restrict access tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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Wbcom Designs – Private Community for BuddyPress
4.9 (25) 300+ active installsCreate a private BuddyPress community by restricting access to non-members. Control who sees what with flexible privacy settings.
Shares the Restrict access tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated November 28, 2025.
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s2Member – Excellent for All Kinds of Memberships, Content Restriction Paywalls & Member Access Subscriptions
4.1 (234) 8,000+ active installs❤️ Excellent membership plugin! Easy, quick, flexible. Monetize your site with memberships and subscriptions. Protect content instantly and securely.
Shares the content restriction tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated 9 days ago.
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Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content
4.2 (60) 10,000+ active installsPassword Protect Pages, Posts & Content in WordPress
Shares the restrict content tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection
4.3 (94) 10,000+ active installsCreate Access Levels and restrict any post, page, category, etc. Supports bbPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, WPML, and more.
Shares the content restriction tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
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Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction
4.7 (265) 10,000+ active installsFeature-packed membership plugin for creating subscription plans, adding recurring payments & content restriction on your membership site.
Shares the content restriction tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 19 days ago.
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4.2 (35) 600+ active installsThe subscription engine for news & niche publishers.
Shares the content restriction tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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Membership For WooCommerce
Paid version available4.4 (28) 900+ active installsThe membership plugin lets you easily restrict content, build online communities, customize user roles, & quickly manage access permissions.
Shares the content restriction tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 28 days ago.
Switching from Page and Post Restriction: common questions
What is the best alternative to Page and Post Restriction?
Restrict is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 2,000+ active installs with a 4.2 out of 5 rating.
Which Page and Post Restriction alternative has the most users?
Passster, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Page and Post Restriction alternative is rated highest?
Paid Membership Subscriptions, rated 4.7 out of 5 by 265 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Page and Post Restriction alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Page and Post Restriction score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Page and Post Restriction on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Restrict is the closest match to Page and Post Restriction by the data we track, and Passster has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. Simple Client Dashboard shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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