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Best Solutions for Protecting Pages for Logged-In Users on WordPress

In a recent Business Bloomer Club discussion, a WordPress developer sought a straightforward solution for restricting specific pages to logged-in users.

While many plugins offer this feature, some come bundled with unnecessary upsells and excessive features, which can be overwhelming for users who need only basic page protection.

For simple “logged-in only” access, lightweight solutions can be more efficient and user-friendly.

WooCommerce: Enable Product Reviews for Logged Out Verified Customers

In WooCommerce, product reviews are a powerful way to build trust and encourage future purchases.

If you want to avoid spam, you’d usually select the “Reviews can only be left by verified owners” option, so that only logged in customers can leave reviews.

This can be limiting, especially if you want to allow verified buyers who are not logged in to share their feedback, without forcing them to log in first.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to customize WooCommerce to allow logged-out verified customers to leave product reviews.

With a simple PHP snippet, we’ll adjust WooCommerce review settings to accept reviews from users who have purchased a product, regardless of their login status. This way, you can enhance the customer experience while maintaining authenticity and security for product feedback.

Let’s dive into the code and get started!

WooCommerce: User Can Only Purchase A Product Once

In the era of online courses, subscriptions, custom-made products and product personalization, it may happen that you need to limit a specific WooCommerce product sales. For example – users may only purchase a trial product once in their lifetime.

In this short tutorial, we will see how this is done. Clearly, the user must be logged in in order for the code to trigger, so this applies to stores that require checkout login before proceeding with the order.

Enjoy!

WooCommerce: How to Create A Private Store

WooCommerce powers over 26% of global eCommerce websites and is an excellent and convenient way to create your online shop without writing a single line of code.

But besides its convenience – another factor that makes WooCommerce a popular choice is its flexibility. While the core WooCommerce installation helps you create a basic online store with ease – specific paid WooCommerce plugins make it easy to create a customized and ideal business model of your choice.

For instance, several businesses prefer a private WooCommerce store model to grant access or sell products and services to specific customers and hide from the others. This is where a private store for WooCommerce plugins comes into the picture.

A great example is Oriflame – a direct sales leading beauty company that sells products for everyone and reserves some for specific VIP members on their website. They offer benefits like exclusive discounts, access to a complete range of products, and fast delivery to these VIP members.

There can be multiple other reasons behind creating a private WooCommerce store. In this article, we’ll briefly touch on those reasons and share some of the best WooCommerce private store plugins you can use for your WooCommerce store. Let’s go!

WooCommerce: Edit Product Layout If Logged In

Logged in customers often require different UX, communication and website layout. You can hide add to cart buttons for logged out users, yes, but you can also completely remodel the single product page layout. For example, you can remove the featured image, the add to cart button (because maybe you only want them to purchase one product), the sale badge, the price, product tabs, and so on – while also adding logged-in only information such as custom buttons, banners and media.

In this tutorial we’ll see how to target logged in customers who purchased the current product, how to remove some default layout elements and how to add some custom HTML and CSS to the single product page. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Rename “My Account” If Logged Out @ Nav Menu

You could install a free WordPress plugin to enable “LOGIN / LOGOUT” menu links – or you could use a super simple snippet. Once again, the less plugins you use the better, especially if you can replace them with a few lines of code.

In this case study, I have added the “My Account” page to the navigation menu and I want that label to change to “Login” if the user is logged out. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Single Product Page Redirect for Logged In Customers

If you sell one-off products like online courses, lifetime memberships or unique pieces that can only be purchased once by a given customer, maybe you’d better redirecting the logged in customer who has purchased that product to a custom URL, such as the shop page, the “my courses” page for online courses or another customer-specific section.

With this easy snippet you’ll learn how to see if a user is logged in and has purchased a given product ID and then how to do a safe PHP redirect. Enjoy!

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