Brian Layman

The Smart Passworded Pages plugin enhances WordPress by allowing the creation of central login pages that grant access to any number of passworded child pages. In this fashion you can give each client/member/organization a central place to enter a password and they will be taken to the page that has only their information.
The password field is displayed as a field followed by a button with customizable text. The form is can be uniquely stylized with CSS. The child pages can in turn link to other pages protected with the same password and the password will not need to be re-entered.
To add the password field to a parent page, simply enter the short code 
[smartpwpages]
If you wish to assign a unique label to the submit button or give the form a unique ID for CSS identification, the attributes in the following example can be used: 
[smartpwpages label=\”Login\” ID=\”sppForm1\”]
This plugin doesn’t add the ability to add passwords to pages. WordPress has that built in. On the right hand side of the page editing screen in WordPress, you can change the visibility to Password protected and enter in a password. If you are unfamiliar with using passwords in WordPress, you might want to read this page first: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Password_Protection
This plugin does make the password handling smarter and enhances it so that you can enter one password on a parent page and gain access to all the children pages using that password. If you don’t know what children pages or sub-pages are, you might want to read about it here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Pages
You can find out more about the Smart Passworded Pages plugin here: http://thecodecave.com/smart-passworded-pages-plugin/

Smart Passworded Pages

Create central "Enter your password" page and the password entered determine which page the user sees next.

gm_alex

The “User Access Manager”-plugin for WordPress allows you to manage the access of your content. This is useful if you need a member area, a private section at your blog or you want that other people can write at your blog but not everywhere. Including all post type (post, pages etc.), taxonomies (categories etc.) and files by creating user groups. Just assign the content you want to restrict und and your registered users which should have a access to a group. From now on the content is only accessible and writable for the specified group.
Try it out
You can try it out at TasteWP.com before install: <a href="https://demo.tastewp.com/user-access-manager?a=jlQ7F1va" rel="nofollow ugc">Try user access manager</a> (affiliate link)
Feature list
<ul>
<li>User groups</li>
<li>Set separate access for readers and editors</li>
<li>Set access by user groups</li>
<li>Set default user groups</li>
<li>Set time based access</li>
<li>User-defined post type (posts, pages etc.) title (if no access)</li>
<li>User-defined post type (posts, pages etc.) text (if no access)</li>
<li>Optional login form (if no access)</li>
<li>User-defined comment text (if no access)</li>
<li>Hide complete post types (posts, pages etc.)</li>
<li>Hide elements in the navigation</li>
<li>Redirecting users to other pages (if no access)</li>
<li>Recursive locking of content</li>
<li>Limited access to uploaded files</li>
<li>Full integrated at the admin panel</li>
<li>Multilingual support</li>
<li>Also protect your rss feeds</li>
<li>Give access by IP-address</li>
<li>Plugin-Api to use the User Access Manager in your on plugins or extend other plugins</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-access-manager-private-public-extension/" rel="ugc">UAMPPE</a> like behaviour is now build in (Expect negation like !groupName and showprivate and shownotauthorized parameter)</li>
</ul>
Included languages
See <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/user-access-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/user-access-manager</a>
The documentation can be found here: <a href="https://github.com/GM-Alex/user-access-manager/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/GM-Alex/user-access-manager/wiki</a> 
Please report bugs and feature requests here: <a href="https://github.com/GM-Alex/user-access-manager/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/GM-Alex/user-access-manager/issues</a> 
If you are a developer and want to contribute please visit <a href="https://github.com/GM-Alex/user-access-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/GM-Alex/user-access-manager</a> 
For general questions, like how to setup, best practice and so on please use the support thread here (don’t post issues here): <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-access-manager" rel="ugc">https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-access-manager</a> 
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User Access Manager

With the "User Access Manager"-plugin you can manage the access to your posts, pages and files.

Smart Passworded Pages vs User Access Manager