GateKeep Search
A drop-in search widget for membership and course sites that hides paywalled content from logged-out visitors by default, with AI-tuned relevance and one-click install on WordPress, Kajabi, or Shopify.
Solo course creators and small membership-site owners who don't want paid content titles leaking via search
- One-line embed snippet for WordPress, Kajabi, Shopify, Teachable, and custom sites with built-in membership detection
- Access-aware results filter that respects tiers, course enrollment, and login state at the server level — never client-side
- AI-relevance ranking tuned for the lesson-recall-style queries real members type (a phrase, not a perfect title)
- Search-gap analytics showing what paying members look for and can't find, feeding back into content planning
A Dev.to walkthrough exposed how manual REST-route plumbing is needed to keep gated content out of search results — a problem most non-technical membership owners can't solve on their own.
Kajabi help docs include a dedicated article on making course content searchable and a third-party tutorial exists on the topic, but the cited Dev.to source has only 6 reactions and no broader community threads surfaced showing widespread pain specifically about search-result leakage of paywalled titles.Use the search bar inside a Course - Kajabi ↗Kajabi tutorial | How to make Your course content Searchable ↗
WordPress has several broad content-restriction plugins (Restrict, Ultimate Member, All-in-One Content Restriction) but none appear specialized for membership-aware search with AI-tuned relevance; however, SearchWP/Ivory Search are established and Kajabi ships built-in course search, narrowing the genuinely open space.Restrict - membership, site, content and user access restrictions for ... ↗All-in-One Content Restriction - Conditional Content Visibility ... ↗
Kajabi provides built-in course search for free and the creator-blog tutorial recommends a free tool (Fathom), signaling price-sensitivity; solo course creators are notoriously reluctant to pay for add-ons beyond their core platform fee, and no evidence of premium membership-search widgets commanding pricing was found.Use the search bar inside a Course - Kajabi ↗Kajabi tutorial | How to make Your course content Searchable ↗
Membership/course economy is structurally growing and AI-tuned relevance is a durable trend, but the niche problem could be subsumed by platform-native features (Kajabi already ships course search) or by generic search plugins adding gating toggles.
WordPress-side is straightforward via pre_get_posts/rest_prepare_post filters and existing search plugins are extensible, but true one-click installs on Kajabi (closed platform) and Shopify (not natively a course platform) are significantly harder and AI-relevance tuning adds non-trivial ongoing work.