Smart Passworded Pages Plugin
Here is a demonstration of how to use the smart passworded pages.
You can find out more about this plugin here:
http://thecodecave.com/plugins/smart-passworded-pages/
And test how it works on these pages:
http://thecodecave.com/smart-passworded-pages-demonstration-1/
http://thecodecave.com/smart-passworded-pages-demonstration-2/
Here is a video of the use of the plugin:
(Press play and then click the full screen button on the bottom right for the best view.)
June 11th, 2012 - 17:22
Hi.
Love the idea of the plugin. I have it setup but when I enter a password which corresponds to a particular protected page I just get a message saying “You’ve entered an invalid password.”
I have 2 seperate pages protected with individual passwords. Not sure what I am doing wrong.
Any ideas?
June 11th, 2012 - 18:25
Never mind. I worked it out. Just realised they had to be child pages! (duh)
Works great now! Thanks
June 13th, 2012 - 12:03
it’s really not explained anywhere HOW you setup a password for a page. or am i missing something obvious?
June 13th, 2012 - 14:03
No, I didn’t explain that because it uses the built in ability of WordPress to handle that… Here is a link to that documentation.. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Password_Protection
June 15th, 2012 - 20:34
Hi Brian… i love your plugin and was so happy to have found it! I had it working and then when I upgraded to WordPress 3.4 it doesn’t work as it did in the past. I have a parent page “clients” and when I type in the password for a corresponding child page, it brings up the child page but says “this post is protected, please enter password.” before, I would just type the password in on the client page and it brought me right in, I never had to type the password twice. I uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin, thinking that might work… and even checked your demo page and it does the same thing on your website. My coding skills aren’t solid enough to get in there and play with the php files, but was wondering if you knew why this might be happening? I assume it has something to do with the WordPress update… Thanks again!
June 19th, 2012 - 16:12
Thanks For the heads up on this Jaclyn. I’ve updated the plugin and you should be able to download the latest and greatest now and it works fine with 3.4 and all earlier releases.
June 27th, 2012 - 00:52
I think I am using the latest version 1.1.0 and WP 3.4 and I am getting the same problem as Jaclyn.
If I haven’t got the latest version, could you point me in the right direction please.
Thanks.
June 27th, 2012 - 01:20
Terry,
Thank you! The version I submitted as 1.1.0 didn’t have the final changes in it and it simply didn’t work. I’ve created version 1.1.1 and you should be seeing an notice to upgrade in your dashboard shortly.
June 27th, 2012 - 01:35
Thanks version 1.1.1 works very well on WP 3.4
June 27th, 2012 - 02:05
Excellent!
July 9th, 2012 - 08:52
The website is a beta, so the URL will change. I’m trying to figure a way to remove the “PROTECTED:” text that gets added to pages controlled by the plugin. I don’t see it in a scan through the plugin pages. Is there somewhere else I should be looking?
BTW, great plugin. Love that I don’t have to create “fake” users just to keep certain pages/sites for certain groups.
July 10th, 2012 - 06:27
Thank you on sharing information and plugin release .
Best Regards
August 17th, 2012 - 05:02
I must be really dim cos I can’t get this plugin to work.
I made a main page, then a child page, set them to be password protected by wordpress with the same password.
Put in your shortcode.
I just get the old wordpress login box, which doesn’t work and is the reason I wanted to install a plugin that did. Please help!!!
August 28th, 2012 - 14:13
Brian, this is a very nice plugin! Very sweet application that can solve a lot of issues, for sure!
However, all of your documentation, written and video, COMPLETELY MISSES THE MOST IMPORTANT POINTS!
No wonder you have confused people!
Brian, life in WordPress does not start with your plugin. Your plugin happens along AFTER other things have been done first that are OUTSIDE of your Plugin. There is an important Pre-Requisite.
You are telling your story backwards and people have been wondering “what am I missing?”
They expect you to Walk them Through it, Everything needed first to Use your plugin — Step One, Step Two..but from the beginning that starts outside of and before using your plugin…
Maybe they found your plugin and assumed from the way you talk that you took care of the PASSWORD application completely. But your plugin does not do that. It is not the whole answer, it is a helper, and extension, not a Stand-Alone Plugin.
You have forgotten to Orient Users to tell them, first of all, that your Plugin is an EXTENSION, so to speak of an existing WordPress function — WordPress “password protect”.
And that what your plugin RELIES on, or it does not work at all, is the procedure WordPress is installed with to “password protect pages”.
And that what your plugin then “extends” is the ability to place that Password Submit window and button on a page that can contain text and images, that can be seen at the same time on the same page as the Password Field and Submit Button.
That your plugin allows Users to take the “WordPress Password utility” and instead of blocking the entire page content with a “No Farther until you Submit the Correct Password”, your Smart Password Plugin allows us to post a Title, Instructions, images, whatever and then to see the rest of the content (continued on a Child Page) after the Password field is filled out with a Submit button.
It would have been quicker to get people acquainted with Passwording in WordPress because it is absolutely essential to do this, to know how to do this before your plugin can work or even make sense.
If you would have said, “OKAY, First, if you have never used the WordPress Password Protect Gizmo, let’s got take a look at that when we make a New page or Edit an Existing page.
To use my Smart Password Pages Plugin you will FIRST have to MAKE a password for the intended page.
in the PUBLISH settings on the Right of your new or existing page let’s Click and Open up “Visibility” by Clicking the “Edit” link. Here you will select the “Password Protected” radio button and then fill in the white field that opens up under the text “Password:”.
Enter the password of your choice, click OK, and then the blue UPDATE button to save everything.
NOW we will use the same procedure to make your Child Page that will hold the information you really want to protect.
So, we will have the Parent page protected by the same Password.
Your child page you will protect using the same Password.
NOW you can use my Smart Password Page shortcode in the PARENT page — this will be the First page a User sees and this is where the Password field will appear and the Submit button, exactly where you place the code [smartpwpages] in that page content area. Save the page once you have the Parent page ready.”
Something along those hasty lines ….
August 28th, 2012 - 14:33
Wow! I am going through your site reading all the tidbits! Looking at the spiffy code for finding the Parent Category of all children, for one thing.
Cruising through the PHP, WordPress, Scripts …. NICE! Lots of usable articles, well described!
I just bookmarked you on my “short list”.
Thanks. I am feeling moved to “Donate”.
August 29th, 2012 - 19:03
I can’t get this to work with version 3.4.1 It works great with older versions
August 30th, 2012 - 08:46
I am trying to see this file but it does not play in both Safari and Firefox
It is either a permissions issue or that the player does not load the video source.
http://content.screencast.com/users/BrianLayman/folders/Jing/media/e29fcfd1-5f1b-4112-9c4c-fa689d810dbd/jingswfplayer.swf
August 31st, 2012 - 13:00
Hi Brian,
I was so very excited to find your plug-in because it suits my needs exactly.
After many hours of trying and trying, I still can’t get it to work correctly.
I have a main parent page (Portfolio), password protected, with your short code installed.
Each child page is password protected with the same password and numbered accordingly.
Problem 1- when entering the password in the parent page, instead of going to child-1, it gives a “page not found”.
Problem 2- each child page disappears when I try to view it.
I am using a theme by Elegant Themes ( FLEXIBLE )
Any suggestions or should I just jump off the ledge? : O
best,
Brenda
August 31st, 2012 - 13:02
Just realized I’m also in WP 3.4.1
August 31st, 2012 - 14:14
I’ll take a look and see if anything has changed in 3.4.1 that would affect this and if it has changed, I’ll put out an update. There were Password changes in 3.4 but the coding handles it. There may have been a tweak to this new code.
@DavidH Thank you for your advice! and also I think you can find that same video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTliSyBPBWI
@all Please bear with me this week as I am fighting a double ear infection atm and that makes thinking straight kinda hard!
August 31st, 2012 - 15:45
Thank you Brian – feel better soon.
September 1st, 2012 - 04:21
Brian, sorry to hear about the double ear infection! I know what that is like and it is hard to think or conduct normal business.
I have checked the video link you have posted and I still get a full black page that is all player .swf but without the reference video file loaded.
September 1st, 2012 - 10:25
I have been using WP 3.4.1 and it works fine. However, regarding problems with Elegant Theme Flexible it is probably because it substitutes its own functions for native WordPress.
Note this: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-slide-show-images-limited-in-number?replies=8
There is an exchange in this page that talks about Elegant Themes overwriting a posts_per_page parameter globally. The responder even posted a Fix for the way that Elegant Themes function was written.
I think your problem relates to this already noted issue.
Sometimes also this can be overcome by going into your WordPress panel and into SETTINGS -> Permalinks
Checkout the “Custom Structure” if that is what you have selected and THEN SAVING.
Sometimes this will effect a change, and if you have a CACHE program in place, delete the cache files before trying again.
But if that is not solving things with Smart Password Pages then the issue is the functions that your Flexible Theme is overwriting with its own queries.
Perhaps Brian can use this information to help you.
September 4th, 2012 - 11:15
Thank you, David. As a non-coder, I’m stumped. Brian, can you help me out?
September 4th, 2012 - 11:23
Oh yuck! That’s Horrible! That could very well be the issue. I’ll build in a fix for this later this week and we can see if it works. I would not have thought of anyone doing this. Thanks David!
Brenda: This will come to you via the normal update system.
September 4th, 2012 - 11:48
David, I did go into the settings to make sure “custom settings” was unchecked and it was. Also deleted the cache.
Brian, looking forward to the update. thank you. In the mean time, any other help would be appreciated. I’m in over my head on this one.
September 4th, 2012 - 13:22
Hi Brenda,
Well, if you were not running Flexible with custom code then okay. But many custom themes ask you or require you to run a custom code in the Permalinks.
At any rate, SAVING what you have in there refreshes the Permalinks which can be necessary sometimes with changes in a Plugin or Theme.
September 9th, 2012 - 03:31
Brian: Is there anyway to modify the “Protected:” heading to something else? Where is this title generated at?
Thanks for making such a useful plug-in!!!
September 9th, 2012 - 03:54
I have installed WP 3.4.2 which say that it also solves some Permalink issues people may have had with themes.
This link has never loaded a movie for me yet no matter what browser. It does not call up the actual movie, only the swf player file. Whole page is black and missing the movie file.
http://content.screencast.com/users/BrianLayman/folders/Jing/media/e29fcfd1-5f1b-4112-9c4c-fa689d810dbd/jingswfplayer.swf
September 28th, 2012 - 13:17
For everyone asking how to change the word “protected” on passworded pages, I’ve been using this plugin: http://glot.homepie.org/plugins/protected-post-personalizer/
It’s kind of old, but it still works for the most part on the latest version of WordPress.
October 13th, 2012 - 23:30
Hi there! I am trying to use your password on a friends site that I have created for her. I used CAPA previously but occasionally, it does not allow a page for absolutely no reason. so this happened again today and I decided to find another plugin which led me to yours.. I am having problems with yours. i am hoping you can help me out or I am back at the drawing board. I put your code [smartpwpages] on one page, talent.. it has a tab at the top. i went into the page, found where i hit publish, put private, put in a password. it worked once then it didnt work again. now the page acts like its completely unprotected, i can click on the tab and i am looking at the page. i like your idea, i have 6 pages linked off this page and many many more from them.. .i am changing this site alot so I thought just doing that one page would be sooo awesome!! but i can seem to get the one page with a password working.. suggestions? thanks kristina, homeschool mom, 4 boys.
October 14th, 2012 - 00:21
hi bryan, please delete my message.. i figured out what the problem was on capa and made it again work for the site.. i still had the problem i stated.. just incase you have the prob with someone else.. have a great weekend.. k
November 5th, 2012 - 11:22
Hi Bryan,
I just found your plugin and I *love* it! I’m so happy to have found it. But I do have one question… when I use it on my brother-in-law’s photography site, using WP 3.4.2 and the Photocrati Theme, after I log in to my password protected pages, the first thing I see is the phrase “Protected:… ” with the name of the page that’s protected. That’s fine. No issue there. But then the next thing I see on the page is a blank text-box with a submit button next to it that says “Enter.” Immediately following that text box is the password-protected content. I’m concerned that people will see the text box and the “Enter” button and think that they need to enter their password again. Is there any way to get rid of this additional text box with the “Enter” button?
November 5th, 2012 - 11:25
Hi Bryan, I failed to provide you with the link to my brother-in-law’s website: http://www.danieldaloia.com/site/
It’s not launched yet so it’s still in a directory called “site.” I haven’t moved the index page to the root directory. Plus, all the photos on the site are mine until I add my brother-in-law’s photos.
Thanks for you help.
November 5th, 2012 - 11:56
Hello again Bryan, I wanted to see if the text box with the “Enter” button was only happening with the Photocrati theme so I tested the plugin on another site that uses the Headway theme. It’s still doing it. But I noticed that your demo pages DO NOT have the text box with the “Enter” button. I’m hoping it’s something that can be fixed so that I can use it on websites with either Photocrati or Headway themes. Thanks again for your time.
November 24th, 2012 - 23:40
This is a great plugin. It is simply smart. I couldn’t use it with HTTPS, but it may be because of my limited skills.
December 30th, 2012 - 12:34
Stupid plugin changed my main passcode and now I can’t log into WP. Tried resetting passcode and no luck
January 30th, 2013 - 09:32
Thank you so much!!! It took me hours for going through tons of different plugins to try and find what I wanted and I found it!!! THANK YOU!
January 31st, 2013 - 01:33
Great plugin Bryan!
February 6th, 2013 - 19:20
Brian,
Love your plug-in, but I have the same problem as Peggi (Nov. 5, 2012). Any solutions?
Thanks,
Brian
March 10th, 2013 - 02:21
I have this set up on my site, works great on all browsers except IE9, when you use the correct password it says that you didn’t. Any ideas? Anyone else have this problem? (I can’t post the site, my client won’t let me)
March 10th, 2013 - 02:24
I see that the Demo pages don’t work in IE9 either, has anyone found a fix for this? I’m really hoping not to have to find and implement a different password solution.
May 7th, 2013 - 17:31
I think I may be doing something wrong but I followed your very limited instructions. I put [smartpwpages] and I created a password within WordPress. Why do I need your password program if I can create a password protected page with word press?? After putting [smartpwpages] on the page I want password protected it doesn’t work properly anyhow. When I enter the password instead of it taking me to the password protected page it takes me to the WP_admin login screen???
June 4th, 2013 - 19:17
Hi Brian,
thank you for this plugin. Unfortunately I have the same problems like Jaclyn wrote on June the 15th 2012. I am using version 1.1.2 with WordPress 3.5.1
Kind regards from Cologne