Restricting access to comments in WordPress

Sometimes there is the need to restrict who can post or read comments on a site. Here is an easy answer to questions like …

If you need to limit product reviews to customers who have purchased a particular product, or if you want to allow only specific group members to be able to view and participate in discussions on a site, then the standard WordPress discussion settings won’t get you far.

The new Groups Restrict Comments Pro extension for Groups allows to restrict who can post or read comments based on a user’s group membership.

Whether it’s limiting who can post comments to premium users or to allow customers who have bought a specific product to post reviews, the discussion settings provided by WordPress alone are very limited and do not cover for such use cases. It’s similar with restricting who is allowed to read comments, as you can’t easily set things up with WordPress alone for cases like “this group of users is allowed to read comments on that post type” …

This extension allows to determine who can post or read comments based on group memberships, per post type and also per individual post.

See Groups Restrict Comments Pro for more details.