Documents in Members Only Section Visible to All

  • Resolved pleasantsa

    (@pleasantsa)


    11 years ago

    My site uses the Avada theme and has the Absolute Privacy Plugin.

    My site at http://denverdeltas.org has a Members Only section and the pages in that section have their content permission set for registered users (Subscribers, Editors, etc. all but Unapproved Users). I made the mistake of thinking that documents I uploaded to these pages were also only viewable by registered users. Once I realized that anyone could access documents on these pages by entering the document URL (permalink) directly, I tried setting the Content Permission for the documents themselves just as I did the pages. I’m able to check the boxes but the settings do not take.

    How can I restrict access to documents (PDFs, JPGs, PNGs) I post on Members Only pages?

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  • Thread Starter pleasantsa

    (@pleasantsa)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    In case someone runs across this thread because they have a similar situation, here was my solution. I am a volunteer webmaster who’s learning by doing. I’m not a programmer, I rarely edit PHP files (only with very specific instructions) and I don’t maintain the server we’re on.

    Editing file permissions and assigning values was really beyond my depth. My problem was solved by the Omni Secure Files plugin. Whatever files (PDF, DOC, JPEG, etc.) I don’t want non-members to access get uploaded through this plugin. When I want to add the file as an element or link on a page, I use the special url created for the file by the plugin.

    Yay me!

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