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Password Protect

Allows you to password protect select content within a post or page while the rest of the content remains public.

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Using the Password Protect icon to protect selected content
Example of a post with part of it's content password protected using The Password Protect Selected Content Plugin
Password Protect Shortcodes created by The Password Protect Selected Content Plugin
Detail

Frustrated because you’d just like to password protect select content within a post or page and not the entire content, and don’t care to install a full featured membership plugin to do it?

We feel your pain.  Which is why we created the Password Protect Selected Content Plugin!

Simply drop it into plugins and once activated you’ll see a nice new ‘Password Protect’ icon added to your Visual editor that you can use to password protect selected content.

Password Protect icon

Now it is a simple as selecting your content to protect and add the password.

Password protecting selected=

Presto! Now they’ll be able to see what you want them to read while needing to enter a password to view the protected content.

Example of a post with selected=

Neato! Heh?

You can even protect shortcodes from other plugins in your content, such as video embeds or file download links.

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Usage

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive
WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress.

To install:

1.  Download the plugin file
2.  Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
3.  Upload /protect-selected-content/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
4.  Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:

  • On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.
  • For WordPress Multisite installs – Activate it blog-by-blog (say if you wanted to make it a Supporter premium plugin), or visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the plugin.

To Use:

Once activated you’ll see a nice new ‘Password Protect’ icon added to
your Visual editor that you can use to password protect selected
content.

Password Protect icon

Now it is a simple as select your content to protect and add the password.

Password protecting selection

After you’ve entered the password it inserts a shortcode around your selected content.

Example of the content wrapped inside password protect shortcode

On the front end, entering the password works the same as post passwords, it’s stored in an encrypted cookie for 10 days.

Example of a post with selected

 

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