Password protected content is showing even after password protected

  • Resolved rinkul123

    (@rinkul123)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I am using your password protected page plugin. So that works pretty well. When you go to that page you need the password to see the content. but when i tried to share the link of that page in facebook or whatsapp, the page preview doesn’t have protected information but i found a way where It shows all the protected info without giving any password. I think this is a biggest issue or bug of this plugin, Any info can be seen without using the password. Please try to figure out the issue and resolve it.

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  • Hi @rinkul123,

    Thank you for reaching out to us last night.

    Our team has done a quick test. And we can’t reproduce your reported issue on our side.

    Technical-wise, we also confirm that there is almost no way the content of a password protected page could be showed on Facebook or Whatsapp unless it’s cached, which is likely to be the case here.

    For example, if your page is already shared on Facebook or Whatsapp before protection, the page preview including its featured images and excerpt is cached.

    Once you password protect your page with our plugin, the content is now locked but still cached by those platforms. As a result, it will still display on Facebook and Whatsapp.

    What you can do is to clear the cached content using tools like Facebook Sharing Debugger after protection.
    https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

    Please let us know if it works and makes sense to you.

    Elena

    PS. You may want to drop us an email to hello(at)preventdirectaccess.com for better and faster support on this issue.

    Thread Starter rinkul123

    (@rinkul123)

    Ok let me give you an hint i hope it will probably clear all of your doubt if you are really a technical person. Have you heard of about Open Graph Descriptions ?

    You’re brilliant! Thanks, @rinkul123.

    Yes, Open Graph becomes a standard way to control how your page is shared on social media such as Facebook and Whatsapp.

    I’m just not sure if users really want to protect the Open Graph meta tags, together with the content as well.

    In fact, many users would like their private content to be protected while still showing the page excerpt or meta description tags to entice their readers to join their membership site or buy certain products.

    May I know why you would like to protect your page preview on social media?

    Anyway, we’ve created a feature request here for you – Password Protect Open Graph Meta (Description) tags.

    If there is enough user demand for this, we will definitely consider supporting it in our upcoming version of PPWP.

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