Word\u00adPress was designed for pub\u00adlic web\u00adsites, not private ones, so pass\u00adword pro\u00adtec\u00adtion can be a little clunky. For\u00adtu\u00adnately there are plu\u00adgins to help, but (as always) there are trade-offs to be made. <\/p>\n
When all you want to do is add a pass\u00adword to stop search engines index\u00ading and out\u00adsiders read\u00ading the con\u00adtent, but you also want make it as easy as pos\u00adsible for people to use, there\u2019s the Pass\u00adword Pro\u00adtec\u00adted<\/a> plu\u00adgin. As it says, it does\u00adn\u2019t pro\u00adtect the images or oth\u00ader uploaded content.<\/p>\n If you also want to pro\u00adtect the media, you will need to give people an account on the Word\u00adPress site (with user\u00adname and pass\u00adword). Then you can use the htac\u00adcess edits detailed at http:\/\/www.idowebdesign.ca\/wordpress\/password-protect-wordpress-attachments\/<\/a>. This works, but in many cases you just don\u2019t want to give lots of people accounts on the sys\u00adtem, or make groups of people share an account. So it\u2019s a trade-off \u2014 how import\u00adant is pass\u00adword-pro\u00adtect\u00ading the images versus the admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion over\u00adhead of user accounts with the asso\u00adci\u00adated username\/password ease of use issues? If you do want to use user\u00adnames and pass\u00adwords, per\u00adhaps giv\u00ading a group of people a shared account, I\u2019d recom\u00admend also using one of the plu\u00adgins that helps with finer-grained access con\u00adtrol, such as Mem\u00adbers<\/a>, to stop people being able to change things you don\u2019t want them chan\u00adging (such as pass\u00adwords for the shared account).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Word\u00adPress was designed for pub\u00adlic web\u00adsites, not private ones, so pass\u00adword pro\u00adtec\u00adtion can be a little clunky. For\u00adtu\u00adnately there are plu\u00adgins to help, but (as always) there are trade-offs to be made. When all you want to do is add a pass\u00adword to stop search engines index\u00ading and out\u00adsiders read\u00ading the con\u00adtent, but you also want \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cWord\u00adPress pass\u00adword protection\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity","category-technology","category-wp-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}