custom password protect with ssl forced on admin

if you are using the force ssl on admin screens, it will break custom functions.php hacks.

this is due to a cookie requesting a http cookie and getting a https one.

if you use this coding in our functions.php file it will fix your cookie problem

add_filter( 'the_password_form', 'custom_password_form' );
function custom_password_form() {
    $url = get_option('siteurl');
	$url = preg_replace("/^http:/", "https:/", $url);
	global $post; $label = 'pwbox-'.( empty( $post->ID ) ? rand() : $post->ID ); $o = '<form class="protected-post-form" action="' . $url . '/wp-login.php?action=postpass" method="post">
    ' . __( "Enter Password To Access All Pages" ) . '
    <label class="pass-label" for="' . $label . '">' . __( "" ) . ' </label><input name="post_password" id="' . $label . '" type="password" style="background: #ffffff; border:1px solid #999; color:#333333; padding:10px;" size="20" /><input type="submit" name="Submit" class="button" value="' . esc_attr__( "Submit" ) . '" />
    </form><p style="font-size:22px;margin:0px;"><br>Password= GO</p>
    ';
    return $o;
}

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