A plugin to check the age of a visitor before view site or specified content
As of April 2026, Age Gate is a WordPress age gate plugin with 40K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 64 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.4M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Downloads are down 30% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Age Gate Lite.
There are many uses for restricting content based on age, be it movie trailers, beer or other adult themes. This plugin allows you to set a restriction on what content can been seen or restricted based on the age of the user.
Features
It does what it promises with several configuration options.
This plugin was exactly what I needed to restrict a few specific products and a page to 18+. The setup was very easy and I really appreciate the options for styling to make it fit my site. 5 stars!
Absolutely miserable ‘documentation’ on their website with no actual instructions on how to do a single thing. No walkthrough of the setup steps. No video available showing how it works. Just series of settings pages with on off switches. No clue how to install this to restrict a particular link or post, and even worse no place to even look it up. If you’re going to go through the hassle of creating software, spend ten minutes writing a little guide for it.
WordPress 6.8.1 👍 THanks!
The plugin has a red flag on the PageSpeed Report that says:
“Polyfills and transformations allow older browsers to use new JavaScript features. However, many are not necessary for modern browsers. For your integrated JavaScript, adopt a modern script implementation strategy by detecting module/nomodule functionality to reduce the amount of code sent to modern browsers while maintaining compatibility with legacy browsers.”
Edit:
The issue has been fixed. I’ll rate the plugin according to this edit.
| WordPress | 6.0.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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