As you have ve just experienced, this new plugin is useful for building squeeze pages / websites, where you have some premium content (post or page) to protect that you want to trade with newsletter subscription or some kind of email or user data collection.
The plugin restricts access to some chosen posts only to users wich access them with a special URL wich you can easily send to your subscribers, in the subscription confirmation email, via AWeber or any newsletter software you use, or even by Gmail.
The special link that allows access to the restricted posts has just a simple parameter added to the permalink, and always the same for all users – so this is NOT a real login, no nasty user login and password to remember for your users, but only a quick restricted access clicking a link in an email – people will also be able to “fool” the system if they pass or IM their full access URL each other – and this might also be tolerable in a viral marketing perspective.
When the user clicks the special link URL in the received email, the plugin sets a cookie so the user is recognized also next time he is accessing the page, without requiring to click again the special link. Also if the user closes the browser, next time he opens it and accesses the page, he will be recognized.
How to mark the posts so they become protected
Just add a custom field called PROTECT_POST and set value to 1.
This will make the post accessible only with the special link.
Have a closer look clicking the screenshot to understand how to do it properly.
Now look what happens at the end of your posts
(while logged in as admin)
Each protected post will show to WordPress admins only some useful informations – only on protected posts obviously.
Click the thumbnail to view full screenshot.
That’s it!
The plugin will be soon available for download….just started testing the first implementation!
Would you be interested in it?
Yes, I would be very interested in this plugin. I think it would be a great list builder tool for wordpress blogers.
If I’ll get some good comments I’ll finish it & deploy it soon!
Hello, I am very interested in your plugin. Is it available yet? If yes, how much are you charging for it?
Thank you.
I am interested in this as well.
I would be interested in this plugin for new project I am working on.
So where is it? I’m anxious…
Yes please – release it now and I’ll be ever so happy!
Yes, certainly.
Did you ever release this? I would be very interested in this plug in. Please drop me a note at my email address and let me know.
Yes, definitely. Controlling content grows in importance the smaller the participation in your blog is….
Yes, certainly.Beatifull.
I would be interested in this plugin too.
i dont like websites which want me to register or join somewhere as a webmaster – so i dont like to force people for sth. too – not for me but as stated in the article this plugin may be useful for only those who have premium/paid contents.
Yes, definitely. Controlling content grows in importance the smaller the participation in your blog is….