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Content Control – The Ultimate Content Restriction Plugin! Restrict Content, Create Conditional Blocks & More
The simple bouncer for your Gutenberg blocks.
HealthyDeclining
78/100
The controls are easy to use. Some users report technical side effects and unhelpful support.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.9★
575 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-77%
Declining fast
427 → 97 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 77% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -77% in the last year
427/day a year ago→97/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayContent Control is well-regarded as a straightforward, easy-to-use block-level content restriction plugin for WordPress, though it shows limitations beyond basic use cases and has drawn complaints about unhelpful support and unexpected API side effects.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use, with a clean and intuitive interface×6
- +Effectively controls content visibility at the individual block level based on user role or login status×5
- +Works on widgets as well as blocks, enabling role-specific or login-state-specific content across the site×2
- +Free version includes block-level integration for controlling individual pieces of content×2
Common complaints
- −Struggles with more complex use cases such as taxonomy-based restrictions, causing at least one user to abandon it for a custom solution×2
- −No native support for subscription tiers or integration with e-commerce plugins like WooCommerce or SureCart for role assignment
- −Reported to unexpectedly filter parts of the REST API response, causing unintended side effects beyond its intended scope
- −Support described as unhelpful when issues arise
- −Blocking the homepage does not work reliably, at least on block themes
- −Cannot select multiple blocks at once to apply restrictions in bulk
- −UI phrasing around 'Restricted to' is confusing about whether it means access is granted or denied to the selected group
- −Some users could not get basic functionality (e.g. showing a button only to logged-out users) to work across different themes and builders
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.73★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 575 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-12★★★★★Works wellllifeaboe1-shot
- 2026-03-09★★★★★Easy to use block level content restrictionrvwfreewheelers
- 2026-03-05★★★★★helpful pluginrichwords
- 2025-12-01★★★★★Easy Peezykhetheri1-shot
- 2025-11-28★★★★★good job, easy to useadriansoewono
- 2025-11-10★★★★★works smooth and easy to useculturemix
- 2025-10-21★★★★★Хороший плагинMikhail
- 2025-09-29★★★★★Simple but great tool to manage content permissionsAdrian
- 2025-09-24★★★★★Extremely helpfulhueck00u
- 2025-07-18★★★★★Great free block-level content controlfufy
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
106
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
93
Prior 7-day baseline
90
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
119
Mean release-day peak (30d)
122
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+14.0%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
9%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.75
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-63%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.76 → 4.73★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered