{"id":103186,"date":"2012-11-29T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=103186"},"modified":"2013-04-27T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:46:22","slug":"add-age-verification-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/add-age-verification-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Age Verification to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial distributors of material deemed harmful to minors are required to restrict their sites using age verification. A couple common examples you may have noticed are alcohol product websites or game websites with content not appropriate for minors.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress has a solution for websites that require age verification. The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/age-verify\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Age Verify<\/a> plugin automatically adds an age verification form to your site&#8217;s homepage, barring visitors from entering if they are not eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it looks on the front end:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104525\" title=\"age-verification\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/age-verification.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"390\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plugin allows you to specify a minimum age and offers several additional options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose to verify the age of guests only or all visitors, even logged-in users<\/li>\n<li>Remember visitors for a set amount of time<\/li>\n<li>Optionally require users to confirm their age before registering<\/li>\n<li>Configure display options: overlay heading, description, styling, overlay color, background color, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This plugin will help your website to comply with laws that restrict minors from accessing your site. Download <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/age-verify\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Age Verify<\/a> for free from the WordPress plugin repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plugin allows you to verify your visitor&#8217;s age before allowing access to your WordPress site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":104529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-103186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216470,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103186\/revisions\/216470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103186"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=103186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}