If I were doing such a thing, I’d do something like the following Determine how to tell which posts people could potentially gain access to, perhaps via a custom field. Store user meta data holding the posts they have gained access to Write a quick class (or a couple of functions) to handle (a) gathering … Read more
Just use a RedirectMatch 404 in your WordPress .htaccess: RedirectMatch 404 ^/(sub-folder-1|sub-folder-2)(/.+)?$
If people can guess the file download urls then they will still be able to get to them (e.g. if someone who has access shares the download urls out). To get around that kind of problem you typically need to set up a file handler script that will grab them from a protected directory that … Read more
How to block direct access to files upload in edd folder
WordPress does not save the information about, who created whom. If so, then the most plausible place would be the wp_users table, but as you can see, it is not happening. As you did not find a plugin offering this functionality, you have to create and implement the functionality yourself. How to approach that is … Read more
Many themes echo the post author names associated with posts. Those are in some cases the same as the username. The author archive links, depending on the permalink can reveal the username as well– /author/admin Getting the username is fairly trivial. I am sure there are other ways to manage it.
Yes, the links will always be accessible unless you disable them on your htaccess or a PHP file. If you don’t have any author page, probably the users (or bots) that are reaching this page are seeing your index page. I highly recommend you install Google Analytics code on your website to track what your … Read more
You’ll definitely need custom code for this. Understanding how to create custom queries via WP_Query() will be immensely helpful. You will also need to modify the ‘perm’ parameter for WP_Query() to change the results based on user permissions. https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Permission_Parameters If the native WP_Query parameters still don’t give you exactly what you’re looking for you … Read more
How do I control the list of Pages an author can see?
Restrict access to custom post type and filter from every query