Shawn Parker

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<p>The Post Password Token plugin lets you issue secret urls that allow readers to access protected content without having to enter a password. It extends the default WordPress post password protection functionality by creating secret urls to the post that have an encoded token. This is similar to the guest pass functionality that can be found on Flickr.</p>
<h4>Who is it for?</h4>
<p>Sometimes you would like to share your blog posts with a specific group of people, but not with the wider world. For example, a family might want to blog about their adventures together for friends and family, but would rather not broadcast this to everyone. WordPress provides for this scenario by allowing you to password-protect a post. Unfortunately, we’ve found through experience that a lot of our friends never make it past the password form. Either they mis-type the password, are confused about what it is, or are simply scared off by an intimidating form.</p>
<p>The solution: give password-protected posts a secret url that can be shared with friends and family. The url allows your select audience to see the content without the confusion and hassle of an authentication form, while hiding the special content from search spiders and the wider-world. You can revoke secret urls at any time, so if a secret url gets to someone you don’t want it to, you can simply invalidate it.</p>
<h4>The Details</h4>
<p>The encoded tokens are made by taking the post-name and post-password and encoding them together. The plugin’s admin page also allows you to create a “salt”, or a unique key that makes the resulting encoded token more secure. Please note that once the salt option is set, changing it will change the secret urls for all posts. Unless you want to invalidate all of your old secret urls, it is recommended that you set the salt and leave it.</p>


Post Password Token

The Post Password Token plugin allows readers to access protected posts without having to enter a password by creating secret token urls for the post.

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<p>Password for WP locks your whole website behind one password. Visitors see a clean, full-screen login screen until they enter the correct password, while your WordPress admin area (wp-admin) stays fully accessible.</p>
<p>It is perfect for sites in development, staging environments, private launches, client previews, or a simple maintenance mode. Setup takes less than a minute and the plugin is completely free.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Protect the entire front-end of the site with one password.</li>
<li>Modern, responsive login screen with a clean, flat design.</li>
<li>Choose a background image from the WordPress Media Library and display it stretched as a full cover, with a live thumbnail preview in the settings.</li>
<li>Set a custom background color used as a fallback behind the image.</li>
<li>Add your own headings (H2 and H3) to greet or inform visitors.</li>
<li>Cache support: keeps the protection working when a page cache plugin is active (LiteSpeed Cache, WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache and more).</li>
<li>Skip the password for logged-in users with a single switch.</li>
<li>CSRF-protected settings and hardened output escaping.</li>
<li>Available in English, Polish, German and French, and fully translation ready.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<p>When protection is enabled, every front-end request is checked for a valid access cookie. Visitors without the cookie are shown the login screen. After entering the correct password, a secure cookie is set for 30 days so they are not asked again. The WordPress login and admin panel are never blocked by the plugin.</p>
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
<p>For manual upgrades via FTP, deactivate and reactivate the plugin to ensure it works correctly.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>Password for WP ships with English, Polish, German and French translations. Additional languages can be added using the included .po and .mo files in the /languages folder.</p>


Password for WP

Protect your entire WordPress site with a single password. Pick a background image, set your own message, and stay live behind a clean login screen.

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