Title: Media Access Control and Posts Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Media Access Control and Posts * Resolved [juhasz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juhasz/) * (@juhasz) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-access-control-and-posts/) * Hello, * We use UM. If I go to Media in WP and would like to set Access control for selected member roles in case of a file I can do it but unfortunately it doesn’t work. It means that if sy knows the link to that file he/she could reach it, download it even if he/she doesn’t have right to do it. It seems a bug for me… * In case of posts I can set Access Control for the posts and they work but when I have a page that displays posts, unfortunately it displays all of the posts and not deal with the posts’ access control (what kind of member roles I selected). As a result, in this page all of the posts are visible and this is not depend on the member role of the logged in user. When the user clicks on a posts it will display it if the user has a right to see it or will show a 404 page when the user doesn’t have rights to see the post. Could you advice me how I could list only those posts where the logged in user’s rights fit to the posts’ rights? * Thanks, Istvan * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Author [Ultimate Member](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ultimatemember/) * (@ultimatemember) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-access-control-and-posts/#post-6235469) * Hi, * The access control widget is not designed to work with media files. We need to remove it from the media page to stop confusion with it. * Yes posts are only restricted and not the post title or excerpt on post archive at the moment. We are looking at adding in more control options for this. * I will check out the 404 issue. Did you set a redirect url? * Thanks * Thread Starter [juhasz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juhasz/) * (@juhasz) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-access-control-and-posts/#post-6235473) * Hello, * Thank you very much for your answer. Unfortunately, it made me sad… * You have a very good tool, there is a problem and instead of repairing it you would like to remove the feature. I am sure that lots of people would like to use Access Control for Media files also, mainly as it is installed there also… 🙁 * The 4043 is not an issue. It is a consequences and I do not have a problem with this. My problem is why I can see the post title and excerpt of a post if I do not have a right to see anything from that post… When do you plan to correct this? * Thanks, Istvan * Plugin Author [Ultimate Member](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ultimatemember/) * (@ultimatemember) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-access-control-and-posts/#post-6235489) * It’s not that we want to remove it. Access control for media has never been a feature of UM. It’s just that the access control widget accidently shows up there and we have not yet removed it from showing on media. Hope that makes sense? * The post issue will need to be added in as an option as quite a lot of people requested that users can see post title and excerpt but not read whole post. * UM is only a few months old so it takes time to build up the plugin to have all the various options and features people want. * Thanks * Thread Starter [juhasz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juhasz/) * (@juhasz) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-access-control-and-posts/#post-6235496) * Thank you very much for your answer. * Concerning the media files, i understood your point of view. Apart from this, it could be an excellent feature and could protect all of our value that is in files. * I understood also the post issue as an option. I do not know how old UM is but I am sure that this will be the best access control system not in the far future… Maybe this is the reason why you get lots of feedback and ideas… * Regards, Istvan * Plugin Author [Ultimate Member](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ultimatemember/) * (@ultimatemember) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-access-control-and-posts/#post-6235515) * Thanks. Yes many people are very passionate about UM and we will be making improvements to the plugin over the coming weeks, months and years. Thanks for your support 🙂 * [Charles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlesrodmell/) * (@charlesrodmell) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-access-control-and-posts/#post-6235820) * The ability to restrict media files too would be mega awesome. I’d pay to upgrade if this was a Pro feature. Fingers crossed you might consider this for the future!( Please ignore the support ticket I sent you about this – this post has answered my question) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Media Access Control and Posts’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/ultimate-member/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3160947) * [Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-member/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-member/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-member/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-member/reviews/) ## Tags * [access control](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/access-control/) * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/) * [posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts/) * 6 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Charles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlesrodmell/) * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-access-control-and-posts/#post-6235820) * Status: resolved