Comments on: Password Protect More Than the_content()

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:54:16 +0000

I have some password-protected pages and I allow comments to be made by people who know the password. So far, so good. But I also have a “Recent Comments” widget in my sidebar, and that allows people who don’t have the password to see comments on password-protected pages. Can this be rectified?

By: bob tomorrowland

bob tomorrowland — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:02:11 +0000

Do you know of a WordPress plugin that allows me to password-protect my posts for multiple users? In this scenario, one user would have a password to give them access to certain posts, while another user has a different password to see a different set of posts. Is this even possible?

Many thanks!

/Bob

By: Arni

Arni — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:38:31 +0000

Where exactly do I put the php-function in the update-box?

By: John Susek

John Susek — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:19:30 +0000

I wanted to password protect a custom page template (for use with the Pods CMS in my case). This snippet is working great for me:


       if ( post_password_required() ) {
              echo get_the_password_form();
       }
       else {
?>

.. your custom php code or whatever ..


       }
?>

Quick easy way to password protect any content in your templates.



By: Chris Coyier
Chris Coyier — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:02:40 +0000
Uh yeah that’s WAY easier. I had no idea this function existed. I just tested it out on a site I was using the technique in this article and it worked great. I’ll update the article.



By: Jay
Jay — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:29:28 +0000
if ( !post_password_required() ) { echo 'protected stuff'; }
That works great for me :)



By: Chris Coyier
Chris Coyier — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:00:03 +0000
That’s interesting I’ll have to give that a shot. 
Protecting using PHP via the template itself is clearly a better solution. The above was manufactured in a pinch when I didn’t see any other way of getting it done.



By: Ben
Ben — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:57:16 +0000
I think a good improvement in WordPress would be to improve the password protection and make it more versatile.

I wrote an article recently about creating a members category protected by login: 
The (almost) ultimate members page in WordPress


By: Chris
Chris — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:27:53 +0000
I think your Javascript approach isn't such a good idea: Protected content will be indexed by search engines.
Did you think of a solution like this one:

$my_id = 7; //current post's id
$post_data = get_post($my_id); //get current post's content (maybe that's already defined inside the loop, don't remember
$is_protected = ($post_data->post_password != '') ? true : false;

You can use $is_protected within the template (for protecting custom fields) or filtering the post with the hook the_content. Give the filter a high number for priority (which means that it actually has a low priority) so you filter also changes made by other plugins.