Hide Previous Content From New Members

Build a membership site that rewards members for signing up earlier rather than later. This can be done by preventing new members from seeing published content that was published before a members join date.

About the Code Recipe

In some cases, you may want to prevent new users from seeing older content on your membership site. This is especially true if your content is very serial in nature or if you want to generate a more exclusive feel for your membership site. This code will create a content filter for all pages and posts to remove access to posts that were published before a member’s join date. Only the posts or pages which require membership will be hidden.

The Code Recipe

Adding the recipe to your website

Copy and paste this code recipe into a helper PMPro Customizations plugin.

Author: Jason Coleman

Jason Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Paid Memberships Pro, the most complete membership platform for WordPress. With a passion for pushing WordPress to its limits, Jason is the author of Building Web Apps With WordPress, published by O'Reilly Media.

Jason's entrepreneurial spirit is driven by uncertainty, risk, and the thrill of new opportunities. With over two decades of experience in development, management, and marketing, he is committed to Paid Memberships Pro: the only open source platform focused on helping creators get paid so they can find freedom in their life and fulfill their goals.

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