Craft Age Gate

A full-featured age gate plugin for Craft CMS 5 to protect your site from under-aged visitors.

Features

Flexible Display Options: Choose between a modal overlay or a dedicated redirect page.
Customizable Design: Easily change colors, blur amounts, border radii, and text without writing CSS.
Validation Types: Support for simple Yes/No validation or full birthdate entry.
Regional Formats: Configurable birthdate formats (e.g., DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY) to support international audiences.
Template Overrides: Create your own custom age gate templates while utilizing the plugin's built-in validation logic.
Crawler Friendly: Automatically allows search engine crawlers to bypass the age gate.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 5.8.0 or later, and PHP 8.2 or later.

Installation

You can install this plugin from the Plugin Store or with Composer.

From the Plugin Store

Go to the Plugin Store in your project’s Control Panel and search for “AgeGate”. Then press “Install”.

With Composer

Open your terminal and run the following commands:

# go to the project directory
cd /path/to/my-project.test

# tell Composer to load the plugin
composer require thekitchen-agency/craft-age-gate

# tell Craft to install the plugin
./craft plugin/install craft-age-gate

Configuration

Once installed, navigate to Settings → Plugins → Age Gate in your Craft Control Panel to configure the plugin.

You can configure:

Display Type: Modal or Redirect
Validation: Minimum age required, validation type, and birthdate format
Appearance: Colors, text, button labels, and background blur
Links: Redirection URLs for declined users, and policy links

Advanced Usage & Custom Templates

If you need full control over the markup, Age Gate provides a robust template override system and JavaScript helper functions.

For detailed instructions on creating custom templates and accessing the available Twig and JavaScript variables, please read the Custom Age Gate Integration Guide.

Support

Issues: GitHub Issues
Author: TheKitchen Agency

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Version 1.0.3

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Version 1.0.0

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