ECR - Easy Content Restriction

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Introduction

Content Restriction, Frontend Access Control, Content Protection, Access & Security, Security Tools

Protects content in articles with a password or only displays the content to approved user groups.

With this plugin, you can hide text in your articles with a password or from specified user groups with a simple syntax call directly in the articles. Special features are the unusual syntax use (square brackets) and the Safe Mode to avoid hidden text to be showed in other components (e.g. search component). Because the typical plugin syntax is removed in calls from the outside, the plugin does not use curly brackets.

In the Safe Mode, the whole article is replaced with an empty string if ECR detects a call from outside the content component of an article which uses the plugin.

Features

Protects content in articles
Password Mode - Protect your content with a password! No user account required to load the content - just the correct password
Easy syntax to call the plugin: [ecr]YOUR TEXT[/ecr]
Safe Mode: Content protection not only in the article view
Specify the allowed or disallowed user groups
Specify allowed users using their IDs
Set an individual replacement text
Languages: English and German

Support

The extension is completely free but you need a subscription for support:
https://kubik-rubik.de/subscription

Write a review

Love this, fails on PHP 8

Casper (1).
Posted on 29 April 2023

Functionality

Love this plugin, does a great job to protect sensitive information

Ease of use

Very easy to implement and very easy to use in an article even for inexperienced users

Support

Have not used yet, may ask why it fails on PHP 8 with error:
Error: htmlspecialchars(): Argument #1 ($string) must be of type stripe string,

Documentation

None needed in my opinion, description with the plugin is sufficient

I used this to: Protecting sensitive information on Joomla 3 and 4 sites, where the Joomla 4 sites are running on PHP 7

Perfect solution to provide a password protected resource

mark semczyszyn (2).
Posted on 25 January 2022

Functionality

This plugin has far more functionality than I actually needed which is brilliant. I can see it being useful in other projects.

Ease of use

Incredibly easy to use for what I needed (Global Password Protection in the PRO version).

Support

Had two questions both answered within a few minutes so my experience is extremely positive.

Documentation

Documentation provided in the plugin configuration. Not referred to any other documentation.

I used this to: Global Password Protection of a web based resource. Needed something because MS disables Basic htpasswd authentication by default in Edge. Easy to implement and customise and does exactly what was required. Paid for the Pro version to get GPP. Well worth the small licence fee.

It even works with Joomla 4.0.0

Michael Russell (29).
Posted on 19 August 2021

Functionality

Does what it is supposed to do: protects selected parts of a J! article unless you are logged-in with the right permissions.

Ease of use

Simple: just a quick shortcode. However, you need to know the user group IDs; if you know those there are no problems

Support

Haven't required it but the support looks adequate for most people.

Documentation

It's a short-code! There's not much need for expansive documentation

I used this to: Protecting parts of a J! article from people who don't have permission to view those things. Good for displaying "hidden" links within your website that you don't want to advertise to guests, lurkers or content scrapers.

Unable to protect the images published from a folder

Alex (11).
Posted on 27 September 2017

Functionality

Overall good but be aware it's not possibile to protect images get from a folder.
It's seems you can protect just text

Ease of use

Easy

Support

Documentation

I used this to: My use

Owner's reply: ECR protects everything in the context of the article, not on the server level! Please use server-level methods to protect your static files.

excellent

Manfred Schönrock (2).
Posted on 07 February 2017

Functionality

This extension is perfect to password protect a Joomla article.

Ease of use

It is easy to use.

Support

The support is excellent. Even special requirements could be realized.

Documentation

Good

I used this to: A Joomal 3.6.4 website

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