WordPress is easy to use and gives you control over your content and there might be cases where you would like to share content with selected individuals. Perhaps you would like to share a wedding album to your guests or share articles with your subscribers.

How To Password Protect Your WordPress Site’s Content

Whether you want to protect your whole website or restrict users, you can DIY security by following these simple steps.

Protecting A Post Or Page

You can protect a post or page on a WordPress site by installing plugins. WordPress packs functionality that lets you control information that you share with visitors.

You can password protect a post or page by following these steps.

• Go to: Posts > All Posts from the dashboard.
• Find the post you want to protect and open it using Edit.
• Go to the right sidebar to the Publish section then click the Edit link.
• There Should be 3 different options: public, private and password protected.
• Click password protected and enter a password. Once you’re done click the OK button to proceed.

This post will now be visible only to users who enter the password you set.

Password Protecting Parts Of A Page Or Post

The Passater Plugin is the easiest way to restrict user access to a portion of a post or page.

Activate the plugin and then put a shortcode before and after the content block you’d like to restrict access to. Whenever someone wants to view the post, they will have to enter the password you set on the password protected content.

To activate Passater:

• Go to Plugins > Add New
• Search for Passater plugin. Click it once it shows up in the results.
• Click on the Install Now button to install to your site.
• After it’s done installing, click Activate button.
• Open the post you would like to password protect. Select the chunk of text you want to protect.
• Select Content Protector Shortcode option that’s added to the text editor.
• A popup window should prompt you to enter a password.

• Enter the password you’d like to use to restrict access to your content and click the INSERT SHORTCODE button to proceed.

• The chunk of content you selected should be wrapped around the shortcode and should look something like this:

[content_protector password=”your-password”]Your password protected content here.[/content_protector].

• Click the Update (or Publish) button to save changes.

Protecting A Category Of Posts

You can also password protect a category of posts.

• Start by using Access Category Password plugin to restrict user access to a specific category of posts.
• Go to your website admin panel and go to Plugins > Add New.
• Search for Access Category Password plugin. Once it shows up click Install.
• After installing, click Activate.
• Hover over Settings in the sidebar menu, and click on the Access Category Password option in the sub-menu.

• You will be redirected to the Access Category Password settings page.
• Enter desired password and set categories of posts you want to protect using the Impacted categories option.

Once you save changes, the category of posts you selected should be password protected.

Password Protecting Your Entire Site

To password protect your entire site; use the Password Protected plugin for WordPress.

• Go to Plugins > Add New.
• Search for the Password Protected plugin. Once it shows up in the search results, click on the Install Now button to install it to your website.
• Activate after installing.
• Go to Settings and click Password Protected. You will be redirected to the Password Protected Settings page.

You are now presented with some options.

• To protect your entire site: tick the Enable checkbox in front of the Password Protect Status option.
• Ticking the Protected Permissions option allows selected visitors to access your website without having to enter a password.
• To allow specific users to access your website without permission simply enter their IP addresses in the text box in Allow IP Addresses text box to whitelist them.

Website owners and e-commerce site owners will find themselves in situations where they will need to password protect certain content on their website. Knowing that they have this option will help them keep their content and website safe.

Is your website password protected? What do you think are the benefits of password protecting a website or its content? Tell us by leaving your comments below.

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The newest editing experience you will encounter with WordPress this year is called Gutenberg. Although not yet available at the moment, it’s important to be prepared for this coming change. How every WordPress user will adapt to this change is entirely dependent on their skills.

Is the update mandatory?

Gutenberg will be incorporated directly into the CMS’ system, which means that there is no way you can avoid the changes. But there is nothing to fret as a plugin developed by a WordPress core developer has your back. The plugin, called Classic Editor, promises to turn off Gutenberg for every WordPress user who doesn’t like the update.

What should you do before the update?

Before updating to WordPress 5.0, back up your entire website. This core update is irreversible, and therefore any incompatibility issues with any of your plugins or your theme are forever. Prepare to talk to your developer so you can identify which of your plugins are most likely to be affected and how your website can adapt to the change.

Once done, you can install Gutenberg on your website so you can get used to it. And if you’re ready, the update will be flawless and beneficial to you.

What’s so good about Gutenberg?

With Gutenberg’s clean interface, you get more screen space that provides a less distracting experience. One of the best features of Gutenberg is the new alignment options for images which is a step forward for large-screen users. With the update, you can now use WordPress on mobile with ease.

New users of the CMS will benefit from this update too because Gutenberg is very user-friendly for beginners. For plugin and theme developers, the ability to create their own custom blocks will provide them with the necessary tools to do such things easily.

With today’s post-lock feature, writers are prevented from overwriting each other. With Gutenberg, multiple writers can now work on the same draft at the same time.

What do you think of Gutenberg? Do you think the pros outweigh the cons of this update? Let us know in the comments.

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