Advice on Password protected content needed!

  • Hi there,

    I am working on a project that requires a (hopefully) relatively straightforward password solution for protected exclusive content. I am aware of the password-protected function included within WordPress and I am familiar with various plugins that offer simple password protection for pages but I am hoping someone will be able to offer some guidance on what would work best in this particular scenario…

    Scenario:

    The company I am currently working for offers a simple membership to members of the public. Once the client has made the payment (via GoCardless) they want the client to be allowed to access newsletters and documents on certain sections and pages of the website I am going to be building.

    What would be ideal is for a plugin to be able to auto-generate a password for the company to provide each client with. The client can then use this password to access the relevant parts of the site. It would also be great for us to be able to manage the passwords so when a membership gets cancelled, we can remove that particular member’s password from the list of accepted passwords. What would be insanely useful is if the plugin could acknowledge payment had been made through GoCardless and auto-issue the password to the client…

    Is anyone aware of a plugin that could work for this particular scenario?

    Thank you in advance!!

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    You will likely need to piece together the desired functionality from different plugins and possibly some custom coding to tie everything together. The chances of finding a single plugin that does it all is unlikely.

    There are membership plugins that will help you manage who can see what. The built-in page password protection is not very practical. Unless the page is intended for only one person to view, the page protection means a shared password. Sharing passwords is never a good idea.

    It’s best to manage access through user roles and capabilities. Once someone pays the required fee, their user role could be changed to one that gives greater access to content. Finer grained control is possible, like only being able to view certain fee based pages but not others. This might involve managing what resources someone can see in their user meta data. A membership plugin should take care of most of this. Some may even provide for a payment gateway, but support specifically for GoCardless is hit or miss, probably more misses. You may need to custom code something to integrate a GoCardless plugin with a membership plugin.

    Thread Starter alikin

    (@alikin)

    Hi @bcworkz. Thank you for taking the time to reply to me and for the information provided. It is very useful indeed! I thought as much regarding the GoCardless side of things. Thank you again.

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