restricting private content on a public website

  • I have a client who wants to put private documents on their website that only certain people can access. Does anyone know of a good way to go about doing this?

    I have thought about adding users, creating a sub-site that is linked to on the main page and is accessed by a login and also putting the documents in the main navigation and making the password protected. The first two options I don’t know how to implement correctly and the last option makes the navigation cluttered.

    Any help is greatly appreciated!

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  • Hi bjstone… I’m a partial n00b here so I apologize if my answer is not totally accurate, but seeing as how you posted 3 weeks ago and have received no help yet: maybe this will be better than nothing.

    1. If you create one or even multiple user accounts in your wordpress dashboard and adjust their “role”, (even a role as a Subscriber) might work in your case here.

    2. Create the pages you want and place them where ever you want in your page “structure”. When adding new pages you will see on the right column menu a bunch of options:
    -one is “Parent” which sets what page you want directly over the page you are creating. Order means a numerical order of pages along the same “branch” of this pagestructure you are creating.
    -the other is “Visibility” which sets either a password (anyone can see the page but has to enter a password to view it’s content), or private (meaning only logged in users can see the page and view its content).

    That’s about all there is to that. Might want to look into downloading and installing a Plugin on your site to assist with User Management if you going to have many users with unique capabilities.

    -Matthew

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