WordPress Content Gating

Last updated 09/04/2023

Bread & Butter’s content gating feature allows you to limit access to specific web pages on your website to visitors that have authenticated. When the user goes to the page, the content is partially hidden by the content gate sign in section. It can be configured to appear immediately, after a period of time, or when a user scrolls past a certain percent of the page.

You can also customize the header text to meet your unique business needs. Once signed in, users can see the page content.

To set up content gating, please follow the steps below.

Step 1

In the left menu in WordPress Admin, click on Bread & Butter.

Step 2

Click on the Content Gating tab, then go to the Content Gating Setup section.

Specify the Pages that you want to restrict to logged in users. You can choose one or many pages.

Step 3

Enter any custom header text you wish to appear above the sign in options.

Step 4

Set any time or scroll delays.

For Percent scrolled until enabled, choose a value between 0 and 100. 0 will load immediately, 50 after half of the page is scrolled through, etc. Make sure to set the time value very high if you want content gating to be triggered primarily through the scrolling action of the user.
For Seconds until enabled, choose the number of seconds after page load until content gating is displayed.

Step 5

Enable Override Registration Destination URL if you've set a Registration Destination URL in your app settings, but don't want it to apply to content gating pages.

If you do not have a Registration Destination URL set in your app settings, you can ignore this setting.

Step 6

Click Save to save and apply your changes.

The specified pages are now gated for signed in users only.