Customize Private & Protected – Change or remove title prefix and more

Description

Use this plugin to hide or edit the prefix on your password protected or private page, add widget areas before and after the password protected form, and modify the label and submit button text. These changes are global and apply to all protected and private content respectively.

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Installation

Through wordpress admin:

1. Go to Plugins -> Add New
2. Search for “Customize Private & Protected”
3. Install the plugin
4. Activate it

Through FTP:

Download the plugin
Unzip customize-private-protected.zip and upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

How to use?

After activation, use the WordPress Theme customizer (Dashboard > Appearance > Customize OR “Theme Customizer” in the WP admin bar). For password protected pages, the widgets areas are found in the widgets section of the customizer.

Reviews

Works Very Well

Eli July 9, 2023

I tried different codes to accomplish some of what this plugin does, and I was unsuccessful. Seems that most recent methods to do this no longer work, however this plugin allowed me to hide the “Private” prefix on private pages and posts. Haven’t tested the other features it offers yet, but the main purpose I intended to do with it just works. Recommended.

Works as expected, but…

aksuska March 29, 2023 2 replies

Did not originally work at all for me at first install (v1.1.1) but clearing cookies & cache got it working. The “live update” behavior of the settings UI is frustrating when editing text entry when the password entry form is displayed as it reloads and moves focus to the password entry field in the middle of typing.

Easy to use, works perfectly

Juliane January 10, 2023 1 reply

I was getting quite puzzled trying to add functions in my functions.php files to remove the prefixes of my protected and private pages and posts. Then I found this plugin. It’s perfect! Two clicks and I achieved what I was trying to do for 3 days.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.3.2 – 05-19-2024

• Tested – Passed tests with WordPress version 6.5.3

1.3.1 – 01-13-2024

• Tested – Passed tests with WordPress version 6.4.2
• Tested – Passed tests with PHP versions up to 8.1.23

1.3.0 – 07-03-2023

• Enhancement – Tweaked selective refresh to improve user experience for supported themes
• Enhancement – Text domain namespace added for internationalization support

1.2.0 – 04-15-2023

• Enhancement – Implemented selective refresh to improve user experience

1.1.1 – 03-18-2023

• Tested – Passed tests with WordPress version 6.2
• Tested – Passed tests with PHP versions up to 8.1.9
• Fix – Fixed variables for custom input attributes, which broke in PHP 8 and up.

1.1.0 – 01-16-2023

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 6.1.1
• Feature – Added ability to customize protected button appearance
• Enhancement – Enabled translation in plugin labels
• Enhancement – Minor cleanup

1.0.1 – 09-24-2022

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 6.0.2
• Enhancement – Added dismissible notice for plugin review

1.0.0 – 07-21-2022

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 6.0.1

1.0.0 – 05-25-2022

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 6.0

1.0.0 – 04-06-2022

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 5.9.3
• Enhancement – Updated default values for button and label

0.2.0 – 01-09-2022

• Enhancement – Made fields hide/show based on hide Prefix & Use Default checkboxes
• Enhancement – Added support for Divi password form
• Feature – Added option to display WordPress’ default form with widgets

0.1.0 – 08-31-2021

• Iniital Release