Password protecting pages with a custom post type

  • Resolved aschettler

    (@aschettler)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    A client of mine using WordPress 4.1 and CPT UI 0.8.5 is using CPT UI to create a membership directory. She wants to password protect the directory without creating new user accounts by using WordPress’ built-in password protection feature. Using this, however, does not lock down all the directory or the member information. Instead, it only locks the text above the directory. Selecting “Is Private” in the CPT UI admin panel does not work either as it simply hides the whole page and displays the standard 404 message when the link to the page is clicked. Marking the directory page “Private” does the same thing but doesn’t hide the individual posts. Further, when marking each individual post as password protected, the directory information still appears and only locks the “Notes” portion of the page. Is there any way to set this up successfully or should I just rebuild the directory?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

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  • Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    11 years, 2 months ago

    I’m struggling a bit to determine what parts of this are directly related to Custom Post Type UI, to be honest. The only “private” portion of the plugin I can think of is the boolean that sets whether the post type is public or not, and that’s related to being able to be queried for at all, not whether or not users can read the content. It’d explain the 404 error.

    So the rest would be in the templates and what’s in the post editor screen, which we don’t have any direct effect on, all of that would be WordPress core functionality and how well the theme/plugins you have supports private posts.

    Essentially we just provide a UI for registering the post types and taxonomies, and not much else.

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