Title: Padlock WordPress Plugin
Author: onesheep
Published: <strong>August 2, 2013</strong>
Last modified: September 16, 2013

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Padlock WordPress Plugin

 By [onesheep](https://profiles.wordpress.org/onesheep/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/padlock.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/padlock/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/padlock/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/padlock/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/padlock/)

## Description

……………………………………… This WordPress plugin restricts view access to posted content in
a WordPress installation by allowing
 a site administrator (or super administrator
in the case of a networked installation) to group users. Groups can then be allowed
to have access to posted content in any of the site’s categories.

Enjoy!

Features ……………………………………… Site users can be organised in groups. Built-in categories
and custom taxonomies are supported.

Installation ……………………………………… Place the padlock folder in the WordPress plugin directory.
This is normally in /wp-content/plugin Log in as Administrator and activate the 
plugin from the admin plugin page

Configuration ……………………………………… Go to the Users > Groups admin page and create one
or more user groups (keep the group names short) Assign users to any of your groups
by ticking the check boxes on the grid and then clicking the Save button.
 Users
with admin rights can not be limited so all their boxes are permanently ticked. 
Go to the Settings > Access admin page Specify the theme template your users will
see instead of restricted content Tick on the checkboxes in the grid to allow group
access to post categories and click Save.

Permission rules ……………………………………… When a user has access to category Blue, but not
to Red and an administrator places an article
 in both Blue and Red, the assumed
intention would be that the administrator wants people with access to Blue to see
the content as well as people with access to Red. The permissions do not cascade
down category hierarchies. The permissions on a parent category applies it’s child
articles, but not to it’s child categories.

Release notes ……………………………………… https://bitbucket.org/onesheep/padlock/wiki/Release%
20notes

License ……………………………………… Copyright 2013 OneSheep (http://onesheep.org)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License,
 version 2, as published by the Free Software
Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY 
WARRANTY;
 without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Padlock WordPress Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ onesheep ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/onesheep/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/padlock/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/padlock/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/padlock/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/padlock/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **2.3**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
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## Contributors

 *   [ onesheep ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/onesheep/)

## Support

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