Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Members Only. You’ll need to specify ‘All Product Pages’ as the ‘Restricted Content’ type.

To allow users to view the product pages without being able to purchase the product, check the ‘Access Product Pages’ field. This means that restricted users will be able to load the product page but the ‘Add to Cart’ button will be hidden.

If you’d like to display an alternative message, you can add text to the ‘Add To Cart Text’ field. The text you enter here will be displayed instead of the Add to Cart button.

And if you’d like to display an alternative Add to Cart button that will redirect the user to your log-in page, check the ‘Redirect from Add to Cart Button’ field. This will display a button with the ‘Add to Cart Text’ that will redirect the user when clicked. The user will be redirected to the page specified in the ‘If Restricted, Redirect To’ setting.

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• Edit the product
• In the Members Only panel, choose ‘By User’ or ‘Password’

• If you choose ‘By User’, enter a comma-separated list of the IDs of the users who are permitted to view this product

• If you choose ‘Password’, enter the permitted passwords for this product

Check out this blog post for more information on creating client-specific products.

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Hide your WooCommerce product pages

If you would just like to prevent unauthorised users from accessing product pages, leaving all other WooCommerce pages accessible, then choose ‘All Product Pages’ in the ‘Restricted Content’ setting.

Make your entire WooCommerce store members only

You can hide all your WooCommerce store pages, including product pages, category and tag archives, the shop page, the cart and checkout pages. To do so, set ‘Restricted Content’ to ‘All WooCommerce pages’. This will leave other content on your site viewable but anyone who is not logged in or who doesn’t have the correct password won’t even know you have a store.

Hide WooCommerce categories

If you’d like to restrict access to specific WooCommerce categories, choose ‘Specified Categories’ in ‘Restricted Content’. You’ll get an additional field called ‘Restricted Categories’ where you can enter the names of the categories you’d like to protect.

Protect your entire site

If you would like to password protect your entire site, or require that a user must log in and/or be a certain user role, you can do by setting ‘Restricted Content’ to ‘Entire Site’. This will hide all pages, except the page with your log-in or password form.

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If you select ‘Password’ from the ‘Restriction Method’ field, you’ll see a couple of extra fields appear:

You can enter one or more passwords in the ‘Passwords’ field. Just hit enter between each password so that they appear on a separate line each.

Creating a password form

The easiest way to create a password page and form on the front end is to ensure that you have selected ‘Password’ from ‘Restriction Method’ then click ‘Save changes’. You’ll see a notification to automatically create a page:

Just click ‘Yes, please create a page for the password form’ and the plugin will automatically create a page in the front of your site – and embed the password form in the page too.

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You can define membership in three different ways. The method you choose will depend on the type of private store that you’re running.

On the settings page, you’ll see an option called ‘Restriction Method’. The choices are:

• Logged in users only – this is the most simple of the three options. Anyone who is logged into the site, whatever their user role, will be able to access the hidden content. Anyone who is not logged in will not be able to access the content. Simple.
• Password protected – only slightly less simple than the logged-in option above, the password option allows you to password protect your WooCommerce store by creating one or more passwords. Users who have not entered a password will be locked out of the hidden content until they enter a password correctly. Having the ability to create more than one password allows you to set one global password or create multiple passwords, either unique to each individual or to groups.
• User role – finally, the user-role option allows you the most fine-tuning of all methods. You can allow access to users according to their role so, for instance, only users with the ‘editor’ role can have access to your hidden store.

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When you purchase the plugin, you’ll immediately receive an email confirming your purchase. This email also contains:

• A link to download the plugin files
• Your licence key

Click on the link to download a zip file that contains the plugin. You don’t need to unzip this – just make a note of where it downloads to on your computer, e.g. your ‘Downloads’ folder.

Installing the plugin

To upload and install the plugin, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin. You can either drag the woocommerce-members-only.zip file into the upload file zone (see image below) or click the ‘Choose file’ button and browse to the file on your computer.

Once you’ve uploaded the file, click ‘Install Now’ then click ‘Activate’ (remember that you will need to have WooCommerce activated as well).

Enter your plugin license

Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Members Only then click the ‘Licence’ subheading.

• Enter your license key
• Click ‘Activate this licence’
• This will ensure that you receive automatic updates

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