Category Protection does not automatically enable protection of items.

[Eldon McGuinness]

I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but it seems like enabling Category Protection and tagging an item with said category would also flag it as protected. It is worth noting that the item does have the proper membership level flagged, but does not flag the “Yes, Protect this content” on the item.

Is this working as expected? Should not an item tagged with the correct category toggle both the membership level and the protect option? After all, what would be the point of toggling the membership level and not protecting it?

[mbrsolution]

Hi, please check the following documentation.

https://mbrsolution.com/wordpress/simple-membership-plugin-category-protection.php

Let me know if the information above helps you.

Thank you.

[Eldon McGuinness]

Ahh yes, while the link itself did not help me it did mention the order of steps again, so I figured what they heck. It looks like the “General Protection” is what causes it to work the way I was expecting. The kicker is, if you do not enable the “General Protection” flag for the same category as the actual membership level you create, it will protect the item, assuming you click the “Yes, Protect this content” option on that item. It seems to be halfway enabled if you do not do the “General Protection”. It might be worth clearing that up just a little in the manual, maybe state that without enabling the “General Protection” flag you will have to manually flag the protected items, even if they are in the right category. Or, if I may suggest, automatically apply the general protection if another membership level is applied.

Cheers for the help!

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