Title: Client side rules
Last modified: May 7, 2022

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# Client side rules

 *  Resolved [javiergzlz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/javiergzlz/)
 * (@javiergzlz)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/client-side-rules/)
 * Is it possible to have client side rules?
 * for example [timed-content-rule id=”0000″ side=”client”]
 * My problem is, that I am using the plugin inside a builder, in a text block, 
   and it only works if I use [timed-content-client], but if I use [timed-content-
   server] or [timed-content-rule id=”0000″], it doesn’t work, I would appreciate
   your help.

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 *  Plugin Author [Arno Welzel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awelzel/)
 * (@awelzel)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/client-side-rules/#post-15627421)
 * No, client side rules can only be used as described.
 * A server side rules differ in that way, that the whole content inside the shortcode
   will not be sent at all if the server side rule results in “hide”.
 * A client side rule will have have the content always available and only hide 
   or show it using JavaScript in the browser. It’s not intended to be a secure 
   way of hiding content but more as an additional option to make things visible
   or hide them after a given time.
 * If the server side rules don’t work for you, you may have some kind of caching
   which only fetches the content once and never evaluates any shortcodes later 
   again. Maybe it’s the pagebuilder you are using to speed up page output. This
   does not matter with client side rules since they will only get executed in the
   browser.
 * However – a client side rule also means that if a visitor disables JavaScript,
   all content will always be visible, even if the rules asks to hide it! Therefore
   it’s always recommended to use server side rules if you want to make sure that
   content is not available if you don’t want it.
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [Arno Welzel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awelzel/).
 *  Thread Starter [javiergzlz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/javiergzlz/)
 * (@javiergzlz)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/client-side-rules/#post-15630183)
 * Thanks for answering, yes, indeed the server side rules do not work as I need
   because of the cache, if I clear the cache, or have it disabled, they work perfectly,
   anyway, thank you very much for being attentive.

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 * Last reply from: [javiergzlz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/javiergzlz/)
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