This Professional add-on is the opposite of Restriction Timeouts. It allows you to keep content unrestricted, but specify a date in the future that the content will automatically become restricted.

This add-on is perfect for site owners who want to grant free access to content for a limited time only. The timelock settings can be configured on each individual page.

Once the add-on plugin is installed and activated, a date and time field will be added to the Restrict this content metabox.

To schedule restrictions for a page, navigate to the edit screen for that page and then locate the Restrict this content metabox.

First you will want to set up the restrictions you want to schedule to activate in the future, for example: set the dropdown to “Members of subscription level(s)” and then select “Members of any subscription level(s)”.

Then look at the bottom of the metabox for a new field called “Restrict Time”. Click into the field and a calendar and time picker will be displayed. Simply select the date and set the time of day or night that you wish for the restrictions to be activated. Once chosen, the page will be publicly accessible to all guests, until the date you’ve selected has past. At that point, the restrictions you’ve chosen will kick in and only members who meet the criteria will be able to view the content.