Content Visibility vs Simple Custom Content

Your Content. Your Rules. Decide who sees what and when. No setup or complex settings. Write content, decide who should see it, and press publish. Content Visibility provides a set of controls to say whether each discrete piece of content (or ‘block’ in WordPress parlance) should be shown to users who are signed in to your site or not. Additional add-ons provide controls for role-based visibility, time-based visibility, and location-based visibility. You can also show or hide blocks to folks using RSS Readers. Individual Block Controls Every individual block on all posts and pages (and custom post types) on your site can have their own controls. Mix and match the visibility of blocks on a single page. Need some blocks to show to everyone and a few to only be available to your site’s subscribers? No problem. Only want a message to appear on Christmas Day? You got it. Only want those who are signed in to your site to see certain pieces of content? Easy peasy. At a glance An icon next to each block with active rules allows your content authors to see which blocks may or may not be shown to certain audiences at a glance. Reusable blocks Use Reusable Blocks? No problem, Content Visibility handles those too. Columns and Nested Blocks Do you use columns and put other blocks in them? Content Visibility allows you to control both the ‘nested’ blocks (such as a paragraph block in a column block) or the ‘parent’ block themselves (perhaps hide an entire column for users who aren’t signed in?). Other examples of nested blocks are the Group Block or if you use an accordion or tabs block; all work! Widgets Since version 0.1.7 you are now able to control the visibility of your widgets. As long as you have version 9.9 or above of the Gutenberg plugin you are able to use content visibility on all of your widgets, just like you can with all of your blocks in the content editor. Limit display of your widgets on specific URLs on your site. Want to show a specific text block to only people who are signed in and ONLY on search results? You got it. Version 0.2.5 adds the ability to show or hide your widgets on posts that are in specific category or tags. Coming Soon [ ] A way to set replacement content when a block is hidden [ ] REST API exploration. Should be fine for non-authenticated requests, but need to dive deeper for auth’d requests [ ] Non-trivial dates. Think things like “Every Wednesday between 3pm and 4pm” or “First two weeks in November” [x] Geolocation: Show this block only to users whose connection is in France. [x] Specific Users: Show or hide a block to one or more specific users. [ ] Specific 3rd-party plugin integrations. Show a block when someone has purchased something from your WooCommerce store. Or when someone has submitted a specific Gravity Form. [ ] Do you have any feature requests? Let me know! Development Development is mostly done on github and releases are made there and here to the WordPress plugins directory.

Simple Custom Content (SCC) enables you to add custom content to all of your WP Posts and RSS Feeds. Additionally, SCC provides several shortcodes for adding custom content to individual Posts, Pages, or any location in your theme template. This plugin is ideal for adding copyright information, official policies, disclaimers, credits, thank-you messages, custom links, special offers, and anything you can imagine. Features Custom content can be text and/or markup Display custom content automatically on all WP Posts Display custom content automatically on all RSS Feeds Optionally display custom content only in Post Excerpts Optionally display custom content only in Feed Excerpts Provides setting to reset all plugin options to default values Provides Shortcodes to add custom content to Posts and Pages Specify location of custom content (before or after content) Works perfectly with or without Gutenberg Block Editor Option to limit custom content to WP Posts Option to allow custom content on WP Pages Automatic Custom Content For each of the automatic inclusion methods (WP Posts and RSS Feeds), you can specify where you would like to display the custom content: Before content After content Both before and after Do not display (disable) Post-Specific Custom Content Here is a summary of the SCC Shortcodes, which may be used to display your custom content based on where it is viewed: [scs_post] – display custom content for single posts [scs_feed] – display custom content for RSS feeds [scs_both] – display custom content for single posts & feeds [scs_alt] – displays content wherever shortcode is included Dynamic Post Shortcodes Customize your content with any of the following post variables: %%id%% = Post ID %%date%% = Post Date %%title%% = Post Title %%author%% = Post Author %%permalink%% = Post URL %%year%% = Current year You can use any of these shortcut variables in any of your custom content. More info provided in the plugin settings. Check out the screenshot to get a better idea of how it works. Privacy This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way. Simple Custom Content is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author. Support development I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books: The Tao of WordPress Digging into WordPress .htaccess made easy WordPress Themes In Depth Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins: BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂