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Hide content based on a query string

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- [Instructor] If you want a super simple way to lock down content without a membership plugin, there is another solution. So here's the problem. We want to show content, but only if the URL shows that the user is a member. And we want them to be able to do this without a password. So what's our approach? Well, we'll look at the URL to see if there's a query string with a specific variable. So here are the requirements. Check the URL for a query string called "id." If "id" has any value, display the content; otherwise display a message that the content is restricted for members only. As a bonus, and we'll cover this in the solution as well, you can check for specific IDs. Note this is not the most secure way to do it, but it is a simple, passwordless solution. So with that, let's look at our starter code. Notice that there are two functions here, one to check the URL, and a filter for the content. Later, we'll also add…

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