Password Protect WordPress Page Support

Hi @blindcripple,

Thanks for reaching out to us.

Yes, you’re right. You can expire passwords automatically with our plugins.

You can also customize expired password error message with the help of our Password Suite extension.

Please let us know if it makes sense to you.

Hi @guidam,

Thanks for letting us know. Your provided link doesn’t work for us though. Can you please double-check?

You may want to drop us an email to hello(at)preventdirectaccess.com to keep confidential information and get a faster response.

Glad to hear that, @eddi28. Thanks for sharing. If you could disable the plugin and show us the error, we’d be able to provide some insight on the issue.

Hi @eddi28,

Thanks for reaching out to us with the page URL. It really helps.

We’ve taken a look at the page. And it works correctly on our side as per this screenshot.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U6Z_XZcLdWiMEgR-9BDO1DZkhzpwcFPH/view?usp=sharing

Can you please double-check again on yours?

Thanks, @tonowak.

We really appreciate your feedback and solution.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing with us your use case.

The error usually comes from a restriction from the hosting server, i.e. max_input_vars.

There are 2 solutions:
1. Increase the default value as per our tutorial above
2. Use our Password Suite extension to import your 1,200 passwords, together with its expiry and label (optional), from a CSV file

Please let us know if it makes sense to you, Brian @oneflynn.

Elena

Hi Mike,

I see. If that’s the case, can you please let us know a sample protected link?

It could be because of caching or you’re using an Nginx server which is not supported on the Free version.

Hi @corentingardies,

Thanks for reaching out to us with the page URL. It really helps.

It looks like there are some CSS conflicts with Elementor page builder.

Our team is checking if we can somehow prevent these conflicts on our side.

Meanwhile, we can help you make a quickfix on this.

Can you please drop us an email to hello(at)preventdirectaccess.com so that we can help you faster?

Hi @greaselovely,

Thanks for letting us know.

To assist you better, may we know that page URL and its password?

You may want to drop us an email to hello(at)preventdirectaccess.com to keep your information private and get faster response from us.

Hi @heysharayah,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

To better troubleshoot the problem, could you please send us:

• A sample URL of your password protected page? And
• A screenshot of your edit page screen where you set your passwords? And
• A screenshot of WordPress Customizer where you update the styling for your password form?

We look forward to your reply.

No worries, Mike.

Feel free to reach out if you need any help.

By the way, if you’re happy with our plugin and support, can you please leave us a review here on WordPress, Mike?

Thanks in advance for your kind words, @mikehaysom

Hi Mike,

The reason why it looks like the redirect is already there is because your navigation is linked to https version.

If you access other pages via the http links, they do not redirect to https automatically.

Please visit this page URL to see it in action
https://mikehaysommusic.com/shop/

Here are some screenshots for your reference.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CnP80azQlr9pPAQqpY_nB5_n5sepc2dr/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cOS4Rnyl9w5adHCKS6vaOF-fRxWqo1nQ/view?usp=sharing

Also, this is a secure version of your page protected by our PPWP plugin
https://mikehaysommusic.com/test-page/

Please let us know if this makes sense.

Although this is not related to our plugin, we’re more than happy to help if you find this too technical. Feel free to drop us an email to hello(at)preventdirectaccess.com, @mikehaysom

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Password Protect WordPress Page Support.

Thanks, @mikehaysom.

I see. The reason is we redirect users back to where they come from, which is the http URL.

If that’s the case, you should force your site to redirect to https (SSL) in the first place.
https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003505112-How-to-force-your-site-to-redirect-to-https-SSL-

Keeping both http and https version of your website leads to duplicate content and would hurt your site SEO badly.

Hope it helps.

Hi @mikehaysom,

Thanks for reaching out to us.

Do you mind providing us with the page URL so that we can double-check it for you?

You may want to drop us an email to hello(at)preventdirectaccess.com so that we can reply to you faster.

Hi @ubkma,

We understand you’re coming from regarding your traffic and solutions.

Let us try to explain it briefly again.

Caching plugins usually exclude protected pages from their caching so that the default WordPress password protected feature works well.

We’re also following their best practice to maintain compatibility across plugins.

If we are to check cookie only, people can easily bypass the protection.
Yes, we understand that you only want to filter out bots. So there could a be solution for this.

Can you please drop us an email to hello(at)preventdirectaccess.com so that we can follow up with you faster and probably can give you other suggestions on your case?

Emma

Hi @tonyhnor,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

No, your protected pages will not be accessible without login.

The ppwp=1 parameter is for tracking purposes only. Knowing the parameter and URL doesn’t mean anything.

Our plugin will always check the entered password in the back-end.

Please let us know if it makes sense to you.