Website Pages with Restricted Access.

Accounts with Community plans and higher can create as many such sections as needed. Free and group plans are limited to only one such section. (See: Pricing)

Wild Apricot allows you to create restricted access sections (RAS) on your website that can only be viewed by people belonging to certain membership levels. You can have several such sections and set different access for each one - for example a section for board members, another one for volunteers, one more for regular members and yet another for premium members.
These sections (including all their 'child' pages) will be hidden from public visitors to your website - and only made visible to authorized members after they log in.

Adding new website sections with restricted access

Note: all account plans can have at least one such section. Community plans and higher can have as many as needed

Go to Web pages / click on [Add page] / select Restricted Access Section from functional pages.

Once added you will note that your new page will have a warning label on top of the page that will show Access granted to: and the list of member level(s)

You cannot add a RAS section as a child page of another RAS

You cannot make a RAS section out of an existing page - it has to be created as RAS from the start

Adding sub-pages to existing restricted access sections

You can add any number of sub-pages to your RAS as necessary.

This can be done when creating a new web page: go to Web pages and then click on [Add page] button. New page dialog window will pop-up. Enter the new page name, visibility, layout, select Restricted Access and select Location in menu to be a child of any of the existing RAS pages - or its child pages.

Also, you can make any existing site page a subpage of a RAS: click on the page, click on Edit and use arrow wheel to move it down under Members-only section; then click on the right-arrow to make it a child (nested page) of the section or its subpage:

All child pages inherit the restriction settings from the parent RAS page

If you move a sub-page of RAS page outside of RAS section - it will automatically become a public page (which you will see from the "opened" lock icon)

Access control

Any RAS section can be restricted to selected membership levels. Go to Web pages / click on the section / click on [Access restrictions] button.

You will get a pop-up box with the list of all of your membership levels. You can check 'Has access' check boxes for individual membership levels to allow or disallow access to this particular Members-only section.

No visibility of these pages to public users

Any RAS section and all its sub-pages will be only visible to members of the specified membership levels (and of course to site administrators), but they will be hidden from public visitors.
Thus, it is a good idea to also have a public-accessible webpage e.g. 'Member benefits' which describes and summarizes the contents of your Members-only area and even provide link to individual pages within it. Here is an example from one of our customers:

If a visitor follows a link to any members-only page, system will require him to log in:

Note: security is applied to webpages while attached documents are stored in common place (for all secure and public pages). This means that if someone obtains a direct link to files attached and linked from secure pages, these files can be accessed with that link without password. Obviously, getting the link in the first place does require a password - to access secure page the document is linked from. We plan to change this but this is the current setup.