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1. StarDust39
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am a refugee from 10 years with FrontPage. During that time I mostly worked on creating just one web site. However, I did expand into a second, model railroad web site in late 2008.

   During my 10 years of webmastering, I have played the FrontPage game to the max, i. e., I have WYSIWYG'ed everything on my desktop and have, consequently, learned very little about the "guts" of web building. I only got into any cpanel excursions in order to set up individual Username and Password info for the members of the model railroad club in my ISP's Password Protect Directory.

   Now my ISP has dropped the FrontPage extensions that allow me to set up the UN and PW info so I have decided it was time to modernize my software. Many strong recommendations led me to WordPress. However, from all the above long-winded explanation, you will certainly have deduced that I am new to (and befuddled by) the whole concept of how WordPress works.

   Because of my uncertainty over what I was getting into with the software change, I convinced the club to fund a third, temporary web site that I am using to learn how to use WordPress. One of the pages (Members Only parent and several child pages) that I have set up is one that I am trying to password protect on my ISP cpanel. I found the ISP's tutorial about how to do it but cannot find the Members Only pages (Directory)`on my ISP cpanel.

   I have looked through every file and folder on the ISP cpanel File Manager Directory and the Password Protect Directory but all I see are an image file, a lot of style and formatting files, but none of my pages. Where are they? None of the WordPress documentation explains, in a way that I can understand, how it works. Can anyone help this way old senior?

   Thanks,
   David

2. elfin
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   That approach doesn't work with WordPress.

   You'll probably be better off looking for some members only plugins to help, but pages can be hidden from public view fairly easily within WordPress itself.

   Go to the edit screen of the page you want to hide, then just above the Update button you'll see Visibility: Public. Click the edit link next to it and you'll see a selection of choices. Try them out and see which one suits your need.

3. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   WordPress is a dynamically generated web platform, so all content is stored in the database. There actually are no physical pages, with the exception of the theme templates, but these are still just templates.

   If you want to password protect a post or page, follow Rich's suggestion above. This guide covers the process in more detail:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Content_Visibility#Password_Protected_Content

4. StarDust39
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks to both for your quick responses.

   None of the "Visibility" options were what I wanted but the "PageRestrict" plug-in looked like the answer. I learned a lot installing it and I did get it working so that all the child pages under "Members Only" ask for a Username and Password. However, it is not clear to me how I set up a "Login" option. How do I create that capability?

   David

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