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How to Password Protect a WordPress Page for Membership Content
By Dave | March 22, 2010
One of my new subscribers sent me some feedback about my videos – thankfully they liked them. But they sent through a question about how to set up a Membership style page with a password to protect their content.
Now as most of you probably know there are all sorts of membership packages out there which can do this – but I thought I’d just recommend the easiest quickest way possible which doesn’t cost a penny to implement.
Now this may seem too easy but it does actually work!
Why spend a fortune on fancy software or scripts when you are just starting out when this will do the trick. Then once you have had some success you can always upgrade to a more professional solution – but there is nothing wrong with this method – it’s quick, easy and free.
Here’s a very quick video which shows you How to Password Protect a WordPress Page:
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Topics: Wordpress Tutorial | 19 Comments »
March 24th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Thanks for that. I did not know it was that easy.
- steve
March 24th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Hi Steve – Thanks for your comment – glad the password protection video helped.
Best wishes – Dave
March 25th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Thank you very much, Dave, for two reasons:
I have got a solution and easy; and for your prompt response.
Best wishes!!!
March 26th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Hi Habtegiorgis
Thanks for all the feedback you sent me and the idea for this video on password protecting wordpress content.
This video has been well received and over 50% of my subscribers have clicked through to watch it – which is great. I’ve also received some good direct feedback – so many thanks for the idea!
Best wishes – Dave
April 9th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
This would certainly be a boon for “Clique Bloggers” who only share their content with BFF’s!
April 10th, 2010 at 2:35 am
[...] Great advice for BFF and Clique Bloggers (H/T Cornyman) [...]
September 16th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Thanks for this Dave, it is really useful. Do you know if you can easily customise the message that is displayed above the password box when the page first loads?
October 7th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
If you protect multiple pages on your site all using the same password, will a visitor have to re-enter the password as they move from protected page to protected page or will just be allowed access to all of the pages?
Thanks
November 15th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Hello Chris -
Once they have typed in the password at least once for each page then normally they won’t have to type it in again as WordPress will remember them from the last visit. But they will have to type it in initially for each page as WordPress doesn’t acknowledge the fact you are trying to give them general access by giving them one password.
Dave
November 15th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Hi Terry
If you go into the comments.php file – you should find the default password text – so you could adjust that if you like. Make sure you make a copy of the original file first just in case you accidentally mess something up!
Thanks – Dave
November 30th, 2010 at 6:10 am
Thanks for the tutorial. I knew the feature was there some place, but forgot where they hid it.
March 31st, 2011 at 2:43 pm
thanks a lot for the information, been wondering how hard it would be to password protect a page.
April 3rd, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Hi Shawn – glad you found this post useful. As you can see it’s really easy to password protect a page.
Best wishes – Dave
April 22nd, 2011 at 10:12 am
Great video, thanks very much! For something I thought could have been a mission… you just made so simple
May 6th, 2011 at 9:41 am
Hi there – I am using the simple ‘password protected’ method for a single page I want to be protected. Do you have any idea how I can add multiple passwords? I want to give 10 people access to a page but if one doesn’t pay his/her subscription I want to be able to disable THEIR password and nobody else’s.
May 11th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Max – thanks for a great question! Having said that there is no simple answer, but there are all sorts of solutions. The most obvious solution is to get some sort of membership plugin which will solve your problem (there are lots of them).
I always try to keep things simple, so what I would do is supply my ongoing membership type info via email. So it would be offered via an autoresponder sequence of emails. So if someone drops out then you just remove them from your email list and they won’t receive any more emails – therefore they won’t be able to access any more content.
I know this is a totally different way of looking at it compared to what you’re thinking but it’s simple and it works.
Hope that helps?
Best wishes – Dave
May 11th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Hi Laura – Glad you found it helpful!
Best wishes – Dave
May 11th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
You could try this – not sure if it will give you individual logins but maybe you could create WordPress ‘users’ for it? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagerestrict/
May 12th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Hi Laura
Thanks for the suggestion – best wishes – Dave