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WP Customer Area

WP Customer Area

By Aguila Technologies
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Description

WP Customer Area is a modular all-in-one solution to manage private content with WordPress. Sharing files/pages with
one or multiple users is one of the main feature provided by our easy-to-use plugin. Give it a try!

Current features

  • Secure customer area, accessible to logged-in users
  • Private pages, that can be assigned to a particular user and will get listed in its customer area
  • Private files, that can be assigned to a particular user and will get listed in its customer area
  • Customize the plugin appearance using your own themes and templates

Extensions and themes are now available!

Invoicing, Conversations, Advanced ownership, Projects, and much more!

WP Customer Area is available for free and should cover the needs of most users. If you want to encourage us to actively
maintain it, or if you need a particular feature not included in the basic plugin, you can buy our premium extensions
from our online shop

Special thanks

To Steve Steiner for his intensive testing on the plugin, his bug reports and support.

To the translators who send us their translations:

If you translate the plugin to your language, feel free to send us the translation files, we will include them and give
you the credit for it on this page.

Screenshots

The dashboard lists all the private content assigned to the user.
The dashboard lists all the private content assigned to the user.
A private file shows secured download links to attachements.
A private file shows secured download links to attachements.
The plugin is available with two skins to allow better integration with most themes: dark and light.
The plugin is available with two skins to allow better integration with most themes: dark and light.
Detailled view for collections of private content allow showing more information.
Detailled view for collections of private content allow showing more information.
Grid view for collections of private content allow viewing more items.
Grid view for collections of private content allow viewing more items.
User account page (a form to edit that information is also provided)
User account page (a form to edit that information is also provided)
A project can gather any type of private content and show it to all the project team members.
A project can gather any type of private content and show it to all the project team members.
An invoice
An invoice
The search page allows finding quickly content assigned to yourself.
The search page allows finding quickly content assigned to yourself.
Task lists provide a convenient way to track progress.
Task lists provide a convenient way to track progress.
Conversations allow creating discussions between one or more users.
Conversations allow creating discussions between one or more users.
The login form is embedded within the website
The login form is embedded within the website
Creating a private file can be allowed from the website directly.
Creating a private file can be allowed from the website directly.
This is how to choose an owner for the private content.
This is how to choose an owner for the private content.
Uploading attachments to a private file is as easy as drag'n'drop.
Uploading attachments to a private file is as easy as drag’n’drop.

Installation

See our Getting started documentation.

FAQ

Getting help / documentation / support / demo / …

You have all the information on the plugin website

That feature is missing, will you implement it?

Open a new topic on the plugin’s support forum, I will consider every feature request and all ideas are welcome.

I implemented something, could you integrate it in the plugin?

Contributions are welcome. The plugin has a Gitlab repository for contributors
feel free to fork the project and send us pull requests!

Reviews

Atención al cliente nefasta…

October 17, 2025
Llevamos varios meses trabajando con las versiones de pago de este plugin por un encargo de un cliente. Lo que, en principio, parece ser un buen gestor de zonas privadas, tiene bastantes limitaciones a nivel de personalización del diseño ya que se basa principalmente en el uso de shortcodes. Respecto a la resolución de dudas y respuesta a solicitudes por parte del equipo de desarrollo del plugin he de decir que es nefasto. Hace más de 2 meses que estamos esperando respuesta a una consulta y más de de dos semanas por otra, y ha tenido que intervenir otro usuario que también ha comprado el plugin para comentar un fallo que ha habido en una de las últimas actualizaciones y que no está dejando que las páginas clave olvidada y recuperación de contraseña sean accesibles, siendo esta funcionalidad un addon extra de pago… Dejo dos capturas a nuestras consultas en el foro de soporte de wp-customer-area: zarclub.es/wp-content/themes/ZARastra-child/assets/img/ticket01.pngzarclub.es/wp-content/themes/ZARastra-child/assets/img/ticket02.png A día de hoy, no recomiendo este plugin y creo que Wordpress debería de ser más exigente con los equipos de desarrollo de los plugin, sobre todo si son de pago.

Poor Support and Unusable Add-ons – Disappointing Experience

April 23, 2025
I purchased WP Customer Area along with several add-ons, expecting a professional solution to manage private file sharing with my clients. Unfortunately, the experience has been extremely disappointing. Despite following all setup instructions and verifying compatibility with my theme and other plugins, the add-ons failed to perform their basic functions as advertised. I opened a support request, provided all the necessary information, and waited patiently. After a week, I still haven’t received any response from the support team. This lack of communication is unacceptable for a paid product. Worse, the system remains completely unusable for my use case, and I’ve had to look for alternatives. I also requested a refund in accordance with their stated policy, but have received no acknowledgment whatsoever. Sadly, I cannot recommend this plugin or its paid extensions to anyone who needs reliability, functionality, or even basic customer support.

Great but not WPML compatible

December 11, 2024 1 reply
Great plugin, with awesome functionalities, however a huge flaw is that it is not possible to translate it and it can't be used in multi language websites.

Simple and efficient

November 9, 2024 1 reply
I don't understand the bad reviews, this plugin has no problems, even the free version works perfectly.

Excellent plugin

January 18, 2024 2 replies
Excellent plugin. However, the query to the user list is slow. Is there any way to optimize this?

Super and functional

August 24, 2023 2 replies
Super plug-in, light, simple and functional. The extensions available to extend its possibilities are just perfect to cover most needs. Very well developed. Tested with Oxygen Builder and Bricks Builder, many thanks to the team.
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Contributors & Developers

“WP Customer Area” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“WP Customer Area” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “WP Customer Area” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

8.3.6 (2026/07/06)

  • Security: fixed a stored XSS vulnerability via the unescaped type attribute of the [customer-area-protected-content] shortcode (CVE-2026-7640).

8.3.5 (2026/04/16)

  • Security: fixed multiple privilege/path validation issues in file and editor-image handlers to prevent unauthorized post updates, path traversal, and arbitrary image deletion.

8.3.4 (2026/02/05)

  • Fix: Licenses validation and error messages

8.3.3 (2026/01/15)

  • Fix: Licenses check stuck on activation/validation

8.3.2 (2025/12/12)

  • Fix: Compatibility with WP 6.9

8.3.1 (2025/11/28)

  • Security: Fixed Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in file download feature
  • Security: Added strict path validation to prevent directory traversal attacks
  • Security: Improved file access controls and sanitization

8.2.7 (2025/09/16)

  • Fix: Security update on license activation

8.2.6 (2025/09/03)

  • Fix: Security update ACL

8.2.5 (2025/01/14)

  • Fix: Security update

8.2.4 (2024/06/19)

  • Fix: Roles allowed to manage any attachment were not allowed to attach files to other users’ posts
  • Fix: Minor graphic issue with the frontend editor
  • Fix: PHP 8.3 Warning in settings page

** Add-on Changes **

  • ** Authentication Forms ** – Fix: Login form issue
  • ** Design Extras ** – Fix: Minor graphic issue with the frontend editor

8.2.3 (2024/01/23)

  • Fix: Update some translation strings
  • Tweak: Update languages files
  • Tweak: Payment notes can now be multiline

** Add-on Changes **

  • ** Bulk Import ** – Fix: Bug preventing some capabilities to show in the settings panel
  • ** Content Expiry ** – Fix: Option “Set a post expiry” was not showing up in Capabilities page if Front-Office add-on was deactivated
  • ** Projects ** – Fix: User role was able to list any project in the backend if he had the “Edit projects” capability
  • ** Projects ** – Tweak: Added a “List all projects” option in Capabilities page to allow some roles to list all projects on the system

8.2.2 (2024/01/19)

  • Fix: Enhance some ownership and security checks

8.2.1 (2023/12/29)

  • Fix: Code review
  • Fix: Authored posts were not showing up on the admin side even when ‘hide authored posts’ option was unchecked
  • Fix: Archive widget was not taking in account authored posts when ‘hide authored posts’ option was unchecked
  • Fix: Recent posts widgets not showing up without previously selecting a category

** Add-on Changes **

  • ** FTP PMass Import ** – Fix: Bug preventing some capabilities to show in the settings panel
  • ** Invoicing ** – Fix: Addresses’ fields

8.2.0 (2023/07/21)

  • New: Support for new Bulk Import add-on
  • New: Support for new Elementor Compatibility add-on
  • New: Allow admin listing to be sorted by title and date
  • Tweak: Few design and CSS tweaks (menu, sidebars, content styling, etc…)
  • Tweak: Enhanced compatibility with components from Elementor included into private contents
  • Fix: Compatibility issue with Twenty Thirteen theme
  • Fix: Authored contents were missing from widget listings when Content Expiry add-on was enabled
  • Fix: Select boxes styles missing in admin profile page
  • Fix: Textarea autogrow was not working anymore (for invoices and account)
  • Fix: Prevent add-ons to stop working in case their folder are renamed

** Add-on changes **

  • ** All add-ons ** – Fix: Prevent add-ons to stop working in case their folder are renamed
  • ** All add-ons ** – Tweak: Update languages files and fr_FR translations
  • ** Design Extras ** – New: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 8.2.0
  • ** DIVI compatibility ** – New: Add-on is now disabled if current theme is not running Divi as current or parent theme
  • ** Content Expiry ** – New: Compatibility with Front-Office Publishing add-on (expiration dates can now be set from the frontend)
  • ** Content Expiry ** – New: Added new permission to allow roles to set a post expiry from the frontend
  • ** Content Expiry ** – New: Add expired badge on dashboard and collections view if post is expired
  • ** Content Expiry ** – Fix: Fixed some meta_queries that were slowing down content listings page loading in some cases
  • ** Content Expiry ** – Fix: The author of an expired post will now still be able to view it
  • ** Content Expiry ** – Tweak: Update tile validation status on single content posts in case post is expired
  • ** Conversations ** – New: Add emojis compatibility in conversations replies
  • ** Conversations ** – New: Alternate colors and replies position depending on currently connected user
  • ** Conversations ** – Tweak: Add editor replies default styles (such as lists, links, etc..)
  • ** Conversations ** – Fix: Height sizing issue that was making conversations replies overlapping the site’s footer
  • ** Conversations ** – Fix: Wrong left/right position for replies in some cases
  • ** Front-Office Publishing ** – Tweak: Allow files upload dialog box to select multiple files if Enhanced Files add-on is active
  • ** Invoicing ** – Fix: invoicing vat fields were not properly loading data on the admin edit post screen
  • ** Projects ** – Fix: Removed compatibility with the content expiry add-on. Post expiration should now be set into attached posts
  • ** Protect Post Types ** – Fix: Post Owners were not showing up in the “Assigned to” column of the protected post types listing, in the backend
  • ** Tasks ** – Fix: Compatibility with frontend tasks edit form and the TwentyThirteen theme
  • ** Search ** – Fix: Authored contents were missing from search when Content Expiry add-on was enabled

8.1.6 (2022/02/21)

  • New: Frontend rich-editor options and translatable strings using standard WP translation system (filter ‘cuar/core/js-richEditor’)
  • New: Copying/pasting HTML to the editor is now allowed but tags are all filtered out by default (allowed tags are customizable through filter ‘cuar/core/js-richEditor’)
  • New: Button to style the Ul and Ol lists in the toolbar of the frontend rich-editor
  • New: Button to add Embed shortcode from external media sites (youtube, soundcloud, vimeo, etc.)
  • Fix: Authored contents were missing from listings when Content Expiry add-on was enabled
  • Fix: New lines in the frontend rich-editor are now div wrapped
  • Fix: Not properly working Ul and Ol lists of the frontend rich-editor
  • Fix: Some 404 links to WPCA’s site
  • Tweak: Update languages

** Add-on changes **

  • ** Design Extras ** – New: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 8.1.6
  • ** Owner Restrictions ** – New: Add new user restriction “Any member of the groups where the author is a member”
  • ** Authentication Forms ** – Fix: “Invalid Key” error was showing up in some cases when using the Lost-Password form
  • ** Unread Documents ** – Fix: Do not mark post as “updated” for a user that updated its own post
  • ** FTP Mass Import ** – Fix: Option “Import all the selected files within the same private post” not working in some cases

8.1.5 (2022/01/24)

  • Tweak: All pages of the private area will now get the same min-height (editable with filter cuar/core/page/sidebar-attributes)

** Add-on changes **

  • ** Conversations ** – New: Add emojis compatibility in conversations replies
  • ** Conversations ** – Fix: Height sizing issue that was making conversations replies overlapping the site’s footer
  • ** Design Extras ** – New: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 8.1.5

8.1.4 (2022/01/14)

  • Fix: Security issue
  • Fix: PHP error when viewing a PDF Invoice

8.1.3 (2022/11/23)

  • New: Support for WP 6.1.x
  • New: Add new category tile for private pages and files in single content pages
  • Fix: Add-ons were performing update checks on every page loads
  • Fix: Remove Project Add button sub-item (Attach new private file) if current user does not have required capabilities
  • Fix: Remove Project Add button sub-item (Attach new private page) if current user does not have required capabilities
  • Fix: Missing permalinks for private posts and private categories in admin area
  • Fix: Monthly archives link in single content pages
  • Tweak: Reduced width for customer-account-edit page based on cuar/private-content/view/max-width-for-forms
  • Tweak: Reduced width for customer-dashboard page based on cuar/private-content/view/max-width-for-inner-pages
  • Tweak: Languages files updated

** Add-on changes **

  • ** All ** – New: Compatibility with WordPress 6.1.x
  • ** All ** – Languages files updated
  • ** ACF Integration ** – New: Support for ACF Version 5.12.x
  • ** ACF Integration ** – New: Support for ACF Version 6.0.x
  • ** Design Extras ** – New: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 8.1.3
  • ** FTP Mass Import ** – Fix: Publish automatically checkbox not properly working
  • ** FTP Mass Import ** – Fix: Files not deleted in some cases
  • ** FTP Mass Import ** – Fix: Files wrongly published within a same private post in some cases
  • ** FTP Mass Import ** – Fix: Disable Option where Enhanced Files add-on is required, if it is not activated
  • ** Projects ** – Fix: Remove Project Add button (or sub-items) if current user does not have required capabilities
  • ** Projects ** – Fix: Missing permalinks for private posts and private categories in admin area
  • ** Tasks ** – Fix: Missing permalinks for private posts and private categories in admin area
  • ** Tasks ** – Fix: Monthly archives link in single content pages