Restrict Content Pro powers paid newsletters, premium archives, gated podcasts, and member-only article libraries on WordPress. The plugin's job is the access control layer: subscription levels, recurring billing, content restriction by level. The thing it does not do is render share images. When a member of a Pro tier shares a paywalled article to a peer, the unfurl carries whatever site fallback is configured, often a brand banner that gives no signal that the post is part of a paid program.

SleekPixel reads the RCP subscription level taxonomy on the post, the post category, and any custom fields tied to the gated content. The share card composes a tier label, post title, and brand mark on save and writes a real PNG to uploads. RCP continues to gate the body. The card is the public preview, and the tier label communicates 'this is members content' without revealing the actual writing.

For programs with multiple levels (Pro, Premium, Lifetime), the level taxonomy drives a per-tier badge on the card automatically. A Pro member sharing a Pro article sees the Pro badge in the preview. A Lifetime member sharing a Lifetime-only post sees the Lifetime badge. Same template, different label, no manual variation. The bulk regenerate command rebuilds every gated post's card after a tier rename or a brand refresh, which on most RCP sites means hundreds of posts going from outdated to current in one pass.

Membership programs sell exclusivity, and the share preview is the one place where exclusivity becomes visible to non-members. A bare title with a generic image gives no signal that the post is part of a paid program, which means it looks identical to a free blog post and the implicit invitation a member is making (here is something I am reading that you cannot access) gets flattened. Naming the tier on the share card restores that signal in three seconds, before the click.

RCP already organises the data through subscription levels and category restrictions. SleekPixel just makes the data visible at the share moment, which is the moment of conversion intent for non-members. The second angle is internal forwarding among members.

Multi-tier programs (Pro versus Premium, Standard versus Lifetime) rely on members understanding which tier their peers are on. A share card that names the tier creates that visibility passively, every time someone shares a link, which makes upgrade conversations more concrete. None of this changes RCP's access rules.

The body stays gated, the card stays public, and the share-preview layer becomes a quiet contributor to retention and upgrade conversion.