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There are many uses for restricting content based on age, be it movie trailers, beer or other adult themes. This plugin allows you to set a restriction on what content can been seen or restricted based on the age of the user.
Features
- Ask users to verify their age on page load
- SEO Friendly – common bots and crawlers are omitted from age checks
- Ability to add custom user agents for less common bots
- Shortcode for in content restrictions
- Choose to restrict an entire site, or selected content
- Select a different age on individual content
- Allow certain content to not be age gated under “all content” mode
- Three choices for input; dropdowns, input fields or a simple yes/no button
- Customise the order of the inputs based on your region (DD MM YYYY or MM DD YYYY)
- Allow a “remember me” check box if desired
- Ability to omit logged in users from being checked
- Add your own logo
- Update the text displayed on the entry form
- Select background colour/image, foreground colour and text colour
- Use built in styling out of the box, or your own custom style
- Ability to add legal note or information to the bottom of the form
- Redirect failed logins to a URL of your choice e.g. an alcohol awareness website.
- Ability to use a non caching version
- Various hooks to add even more customisation such as additional form fields
- Compatible with multilingual plugins WPML, Polylang (2.3+), WP Multilang
Screenshots

An example of Age Gate

The Restrictions settings page

Age Gate has a variety of customisable message settings

The appearance can be tailored to fit your website

Advanced options include the use of a JavaScript Age Gate

Manage what users can change Age Gate's setting, restrict posts and exclude settings from certain post types.


Plugin Details
Active Installs
40K+Total Downloads
1,399,402Version
3.7.3Requires WP
6.0.0Requires PHP
7.4Tested Up To
7.1Added
2017-04-20Last Updated
2026-09-12 6:55pm GMTRatings
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