I use “Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode” plugin on client sites because that plugin allows access to restricted content by role, thus allowing the officers and board of directors to see stuff customers and members cannot. I would much prefer using Branda for a bunch of obvious reasons.
CSM does a good job but isn’t as elegant as Branda.
I use Members by MemberPress to create roles with associated privileges; I use the Restrict Content (iThemes?) plugin to assign roles to individual users by membership type to create Coming Soon and Maintenance pages that prompt for logins to restricted content while displaying a custom Under Contruction/Maintenance page for the specific page to which I restricted content.
Anyone who has logged in as a user with a particular membership type/role with appropriate grant of privileges never sees the restrictions and may navigate freely across the site.
This is a fairly contorted arrangement and requires detailed notes each time I apply restrictions but it was the only way I could get “easy” role creation, “easy” assignment of roles to flexible member types (e.g. prospective donors being granted temporary access to new initiatives while still under wraps to the public) and have a construction/maintenance overlay that could operate site wide or on selected pages, posts and downloads.
There are more elaborate (and powerful in the right hands) versions of both the role manager and content restriction/member type plugins I employ but they are hugely complicated with massively steep learning curves. I didn’t have time or skill.
It still doesn’t let me create a hierarchy of editors to control content development from authors and writers through various levels of review and edits on the way to the Website Editor for final approval and posting. But that’s another feature request.
If Branda can take up any of the features I employ from these 3 plugins that would be huge. Integrating them would be mind blowing. I would use Hustle Pro to manage the new roles/member types with temporary passwords and schedule duration of access (e.g. starts now and ends in 30 days or end of the month/week, etc.).
I can give you a tour if you want.
Benjamin
- benprice
- Site Builder, Child of Zeus
[Branda Pro] Branda Pro Construction and Under Maintenance manager
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