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title: Viewing Permissions for WordPress Content
description: "The [PublishPress Permissions](https://publishpress.com/links/permissions) plugin allows you to customize viewing access for WordPress content. In this guide, you'll see how to control permissions for roles, or for individual users. --- ## Choose viewing permissions for individual posts This feature allows you…"
url: "https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/viewing-permissions-content/"
updated: "2026-06-02"
category: PublishPress Permissions / View Permissions
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# Viewing Permissions for WordPress Content

The [PublishPress Permissions](https://publishpress.com/links/permissions) plugin allows you to customize viewing access for WordPress content. In this guide, you'll see how to control permissions for roles, or for individual users.

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## Choose viewing permissions for individual posts

This feature allows you enable or disable viewing permissions for a single post.

- Open any post and you’ll see the [PublishPress Permissions](https://publishpress.com/links/permissions) metabox under the content.
- Look for the "View" tab.
- Using this metabox, you can choose permissions for each role, and also login states such as "Logged In" and "Not Logged In".
- This feature allows you to choose “Enabled” or “Blocked” for any user role or login state.
  - Enabled: Anyone in this user role can view this post.
  - Blocked: Anyone in this user role can NOT view this post.

![](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/view-permissions.png)

It's also possible to customize these permissions for individual users.

- Click the "Users" tab.
- Choose a user.
- You can can select choose “Enabled” or “Blocked" for this individual user.

![Viewing permissions for users](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/view-permissions-1-1024x312.png)

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## Support for other post types

These settings also apply for other post types. You can select the post types by going to "Permissions" then "Settings" in your WordPress admin menu.

![Support for other post types](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/permissions-settings-1024x525.png)

For example, this screenshot shows the metabox that you will see under Pages. In this case, the editing permissions can also be applied to sub-pages:

![Editing Pages metabox](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/metabox-editing-page.png)