A few weeks ago, AJ Clarke of WP Explorer released a really slick photography theme called Fotos. Aside from just being a great theme, it also has a great feature that allows users to password protect their photo foto galleries. While developing the theme, AJ, who is a good friend of mine, asked me for help on writing the functions that would allow him to give his users this password protection feature. Over a couple of days, with lots of tweaking, we came up with a pretty solid system that worked really well. It uses the taxonomy meta system built into WordPress, which I showed you how to use with Adding Custom Meta Fields to Taxonomies, and allows you to password protect every post inside of particular taxonomy terms by setting one single password on the taxonomy term page. Now, I’d like to show you how it works so you can build your own password protected taxonomies.
Due to the nature of how this system works, I’m going to show you how to password protect the regular Post Category taxonomy, but you could very easily adapt it to any custom taxonomy. AJ’s theme uses a custom taxonomy called “album_cats”.
Unlike many of my other tutorials, there will not be a simple plug-and-play plugin to use at the end, but rather a selection of snippets and functions that you will use in your theme’s template files. It would be possible to extend the results I give you here to a complete plugin that works out of the box, but it’s beyond the scope of this tutorial.
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Gotcha. Thanks!
Hi Pippin..
Will the ‘enter password’ display when going to archive/taxonomy/term? So you can’t see the list of posts in term without password..
thanks
No, the functions are designed for individual posts. It could be modified pretty easily, however, to hide all posts in a term.
I think it might be better to use something like this: add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘check_the_post’);
We can use conditional statements then, such as: is_single() and is_index(). What do you think?
That is better for one scenario: when you only care about hiding the post content. When I built this, AJ really wanted to hide everything, including titles, dates, and post thumbnails. In order to do that, an extra function had to be added to the loop, as in my example.
I see. Thanks for reply.
This is a very spiffy plug-in, but it blocks viewing of the preview when drafting a new post once a protected category checkbox is ticked. What would be the best way to allow previews, other than to remember to not check the box until you need to remember to check the box before posting? thanks in advance!
Here’s a little something I whipped up to easily list all passwords that are set. It could be more robust (check blog_id in wp_options, specify the taxonomic type in the table and URL) but it works for our purposes and could be a good starting point for someone.
add_action('admin_menu', 'my_pass_list_enable');
function my_pass_list_enable(){
#Place in Posts menu
add_posts_page('Taxonomy Passwords', 'Taxa Passwords', 'publish_posts', 'my-taxa-pass', 'my_pass_list');
}
function my_pass_list(){
global $wpdb;
$taxametas = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT option_name, option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_value LIKE "%term_pass%"');
foreach ($taxametas as $taxameta) {
preg_match('/(\d+)$/', $taxameta->option_name, $taxid);
$opts = unserialize($taxameta->option_value);
$cat = get_category($taxid[0]);
$taxainfo[$cat->name] = array('slug'=>$cat->slug,
'pass'=>$opts['term_pass']);
}
asort($taxainfo);
echo 'TermPassword';
while( list($key, $val) = each($taxainfo) ){
printf('%s%s', $val['slug'], $key, $val['pass']);
}
echo '';
}
Insert the following before return true on line 79 (no valid password yet) to allow the post author to preview drafts/pending posts.
#punt if draft/preview & am author $chk = get_post($post_id); if( ($chk->post_status == 'draft' || $chk->post_status == 'pending') && $chk->post_author == wp_get_current_user()->ID ) return false;Yep, that should work.
#Generalize get_category above to allow use on tags or custom taxa
$cat = get_term($taxid[0], 'category');
Doh, your site seems to process the accepted HTML tags other than code before code (and escaping the contents thereof) :-/
You need to paste the code inside of PRE tags. Like this:
<pre lang=”php” line=”1″>
// code here
</pre>
Awesome you should think of smotehing like that