Password protection for multisite

  • Dear friends of wordpress,

    at first a huge thank you to all of you for spending your time here helping other people. I now registered here because I have a question about combining WordPress multisites with password protection.

    I’m administrating a website for a german NGO, where we use wordpress and different subpages for different projects via multisites. One of the multisite subpages should only be accessible for people who have a password. There people with password should find important pdf documents for them.

    Now I’m looking for a solution which makes it possible to use
    a) WordPress Multisites
    b) Protects the page itself with a password
    c) Protects data files (the pdf documtents) so they are only accessible when you have the password

    In my opinion there is no WordPress plugin where you can protect even the media files? All plugins I found have the problem that you get access to the document if you have the exact link.

    Because of that I would usually use htaccess password protection to secure the complete page and the media data. Because the page has to be part of a multisite network and the other pages should be accessible without password protection this is not possible so easy.

    My questions are now:
    – Is there any way to use password protection via htaccess for only one subpage of multisites?
    – Does anybody know a plugin to protect media data by password?

    I hope I could explain my problem quite well and would be very happy if you can help me to find a good solution.

    Kindly Regards from Germany
    Marius

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  • Place those files outside of the WordPress directory structure but within reach of webroot then password protect that directory itself.

    You’ll be able to find the files there by creating a link to each file which can be used with any WordPress post, widget, menu, or page but the visitor will need a password to download.

    For an even better approach, you might want to use an e-commerce plugin that handles digital products via WordPress. Most of those will also allow some form of ‘giveaway’ with a password protected file. There might even be a plugin to distribute digital products.

    Google ‘WordPress digital product delivery’. There was a lot of solutions there.

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