The “Teaser” feature in the PublishPress Permissions plugin allows you to customize what happens visitors try to access restricted content.
This is helpful for membership websites or any site that has content that should not be publicly available.
By default, WordPress will show a “Page Not Found” message when users do now have access. In the Free version of PublishPress Permissions, you can choose messages to display for people who try to access restricted content. In the screenshot below, the regular title shows but the actual content of the post is hidden.
There are additional ways you can configure this teaser feature. Some of these features are available in the Pro version of PublishPress Permissions.
- No Teaser. Show “Page not found message”. This is the default WordPress behavior. Your site will pretend that this content does not exist. All visitors will see is a “Nothing Found” message. They won't even see the URL of the post in their browser bar.
- Teaser text: This will show text that you choose. The text can be place before or after the post title and content.
- Use content before Read More link as teaser text (available in Permissions Pro): This shows the content before the “Read More” link in your post, but hides the content after that link.
- Use Excerpt as teaser text (available in Permissions Pro): This shows the content in the Excerpt for the post, but will hide the post content.
- Use first X characters of content as teaser text (available in Permissions Pro): This shows the first characters of the content, but hides the content after that link.
- Redirect to another page (available in Permissions Pro): This will automatically redirect visitors to a URL of your choice.
