Today in the era of digital content operation, providing exclusive content for specific user groups has become a common and efficient strategy, whether it is for content monetization, enhancing user loyalty, or creating a unique community experience.AnQiCMS as a flexible enterprise-level content management system provides powerful and easy-to-operate support in this aspect.

One of the core advantages of AnQiCMS is its comprehensive 'User Group Management and VIP System'.This feature allows us to refine the grouping of website users and define corresponding permission levels for different user groups.This means we can easily implement content layering, providing basic content for ordinary users while unlocking advanced and exclusive content for paid members or VIP users.

Step 1: Plan and configure user groups

Firstly, we need to plan and set up user groups in the AnQiCMS backend. This is like setting different 'identity levels' for the website users.

You can enter the user management module in the background, create or edit user groups. Usually, we will set the following types of user groups:

  • Visitor/Unlogged in user:Visitors of the website, can only browse public content.
  • Regular members:Register users can access some basic exclusive member content.
  • VIP member (e.g., monthly VIP, annual VIP):Paid user, with the highest level of access privileges, can unlock all exclusive content.

When creating each user group, you can specify a unique name and description for it.It is more important to set a 'Level' for each user group.This level will be the key basis for our subsequent judgment of whether a user has the authority to access specific content.For example, you can set visitors to level 0, ordinary members to level 1, monthly VIP to level 2, and annual VIP to level 3.This hierarchical design makes permission management intuitive and easy to expand.

Step 2: Mark exclusive content.

Next, we need to clarify which content is exclusive and what level of users is required to access it.The flexible content model function of AnQiCMS played an important role here.

When creating articles, products, or any other content, we can take advantage of the functionality to customize fields in the content model.You can add a custom field named "RequiredLevel" in the content model and set it to "numeric" type.

When you publish a new article or edit existing content, you can find this custom field in the "Other parameters" section and set a numeric value for it.

  • If this article is open to all users, you can set the "required user level" to 0.
  • If it is only for registered members to read, it can be set to 1.
  • If it is exclusive for VIP members, it can be set to 2 or 3 according to the VIP level.

In this way, each piece of content has a clear access threshold.

Step 3: Implement the logic for displaying exclusive content in the front-end template

After completing the background configuration and content tagging, the most critical step is to implement the content access judgment logic in the website's frontend template.The template tags and powerful logical judgment capabilities of AnQiCMS make it very flexible.

Generally, you will add the following logic in the template file of the content detail page (such asarchive/detail.html) or the content list page (such asarchive/list.html) template:

  1. Get information about the currently logged-in user:We first need to know whether the current user is logged in, and if so, which user group they belong to. We can useuserDetailLabel to get current user data.

    {% userDetail currentUser with name="Id" %} {# 尝试获取当前用户ID，如果未登录则为空 #}

  2. Get the level of the user group the current user belongs to:If the user is logged in, we can use their user group ID to,userGroupDetailLabel to retrieve the details of the user group, including the set level.

    {% if currentUser %} {# 检查用户是否登录 #}
    {% userGroupDetail currentUserGroup with name="Level" id=currentUser.GroupId %} {# 根据用户组ID获取用户组等级 #}
    {% set userLevel = currentUserGroup.Level %} {# 将用户等级存储到变量中 #}
{% else %}
    {% set userLevel = 0 %} {# 未登录用户等级设为0 #}
{% endif %}

  3. User level required to access the content:On the content detail page, you can directly access the content object (such asarchiveRetrieve the custom field value we previously set.

    {% set requiredLevel = archive.RequiredLevel %} {# 假设 RequiredLevel 是您自定义的字段名 #}

  4. Determine the content based on the level and display it:Now, we can useifLogical judgment, compare the current user's level with the level required for the content.

    {% if userLevel >= requiredLevel %}
    {# 用户的等级满足要求，显示完整内容 #}
    {{ archive.Content|safe }}
{% else %}
    {# 用户的等级不足，显示提示信息或部分预览 #}
    <div class="exclusive-content-block">
        {% if currentUser %}
            <p>此内容为高等级会员专属，您的当前等级不足。请<a href="/vip-upgrade">升级您的会员等级</a>以解锁全部内容。</p>
        {% else %}
            <p>此内容为会员专属，请先<a href="/login">登录</a>或<a href="/register">注册</a>成为会员以查看。</p>
        {% endif %}
        {# 您也可以在这里显示内容的摘要，吸引用户升级 #}
        <div class="content-teaser">
            {{ archive.Description }} {# 显示内容的简介 #}
        </div>
    </div>
{% endif %}

Combine these segments and you can implement a complete exclusive content display logic in the template. In practice, you can also combine content list tags as neededarchiveListAnd loop, filter the content displayed in the list or mark it with a "VIP" tag to make users easily identify exclusive content.

Further optimize and think

  • SEO optimization:For some exclusive content, in order not to affect the search engine's indexing but also not to make it completely public, it can be considered to allow the search engine to crawl a small amount of summary or the first few paragraphs of the content, while hiding the core part behind a login/paywall.AnQiCMS's static and advanced SEO tools can help us manage the URL structure, but the visibility of the content itself still needs a strategy at the template level.
  • User Experience:Ensure