Age Gate
A plugin to check the age of a visitor before view site or specified content
4.6(64 reviews)
·40K+ active installs·Updated 5 months agoAs 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.
4.6/564 reviews
40K+active installs
0%resolved
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
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
- Ask users to verify their age on page load
- SEO Friendly – common bots and crawlers are omitted from age checks
- Ability to add custom user agents for less common bots
- Shortcode for in content restrictions
- Choose to restrict an entire site, or selected content
- Select a different age on individual content
- Allow certain content to not be age gated under “all content” mode
- Three choices for input; dropdowns, input fields or a simple yes/no button
- Customise the order of the inputs based on your region (DD MM YYYY or MM DD YYYY)
- Allow a “re…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Awesome
by panon·2 months ago
It does what it promises with several configuration options.
Perfect! Some content(CDB) restricted to 18+
by FannyV·3 months ago
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!
Zero instruction on how plug-in works
by cmarshall702·8 months ago
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.
Thanks
by kotden·11 months ago
WordPress 6.8.1 👍 THanks!
[Now fixed] Red flag on the PageSpeed Report: Array.prototype.filter
by ricardocosta·1 year ago
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.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by ricardocosta.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by ricardocosta.
Download Trends
Today: 176Yesterday: 153This week: 1KPeriod total: 196K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.7
71.6%
Other
16.5%
v3.5
6.6%
v3.6
5.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.7.2
- Fixed – Template override with child themes
Contributors
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