Cannot password protect a page – hold my hand?

  • Resolved fl8rmaus

    (@fl8rmaus)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    I work for a small business and assured the owner “sure we can password protect a single page!” Now I can’t get it to work.

    I’ve seen the suggestion that I change the theme to the basic (I forget the name now, easy to look up) and to deactivate all my plugins to test what might be killing the password protection.

    Well this is a small business page, and I’m really freaked out about doing that. Will I (and please excuse my abject ignorance here, I’m more of a graphic design person than a developer) lose everything I’ve already done if I do this? I worked hard to get this site looking ok and working ok, and now I have to change it all to test one thing that “should just work” according to most of the world.

    Oh and we’re hosted on Yahoo. Which has already caused problems (emailing anyone from the site? Nope, thanks to Yahoo). Have people been able to get it to work on Yahoo?

    Halp? Will changing the theme screw it all up? Am I going to spend my weekend re-doing all my old work if I try this? I need some reassurance. Or tough love, whichever.

    Thanks

    M

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    …deactivate all my plugins to test what might be killing the password protection.

    Will I…lose everything I’ve already done if I do this?

    No. Your content is stored in your database and plugins only have effects on how WordPress pulls that content from your database and displays it to browsers. The visual appearance of your site might scare you with all plugins disabled, but everything is still there…kind of like seeing your grandmother with rollers in her hair.

    Will changing the theme screw it all up? Am I going to spend my weekend re-doing all my old work if I try this? I need some reassurance. Or tough love, whichever.

    Switching to a default theme is essentially the same as turning plugins off, so everything will be the same as it was after you have switched back. WordPress stores your theme settings in the database so it can do that. The toughest part in all of this is the anguish of “What if my boss visits the site while the plugins are deactivated?!”, and there is where you *could* (even though I do not) use some kind of “Temporarily down for maintenance” plugin or an HTML page if you want to mess with htaccess a bit in order to do that.

    One thing that will help a bit here is that your will have a “Recently Active” link showing at Dashboard > Plugins, and that can make it easy to switch them all back on with one click. However, some plugins might need some of their settings or widgets restored after re-activation since not all of them always tell WordPress to store those settings in the database.

    Thread Starter fl8rmaus

    (@fl8rmaus)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks – I’ll suck it up and go through the whole thing this weekend!

    saddique125

    (@saddique125)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    No. Your content is stored in your database and plugins only have effects on how WordPress pulls that content from your database and displays it to browsers. The visual appearance of your site might scare you with all plugins disabled, but everything is still there…kind of like seeing your grandmother with rollers in her hair.

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    prince

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