Customize Private & Protected – Change or remove title prefix and more

Use this plugin to hide or edit the prefix on your password protected or private page, add widget areas before and after the password protected form, and modify the label and submit button text. These changes are global and apply to all protected and private content respectively.

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Through wordpress admin:

1. Go to Plugins -> Add New
2. Search for “Customize Private & Protected”
3. Install the plugin
4. Activate it

Through FTP:

Download the plugin
Unzip customize-private-protected.zip and upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

1. 

   Modify settings using the customizer.

2. 

   For password protected pages/posts, two widget areas are added.

3. 

   Customize as you like.

1.3.4 – 10-04-2025

• Tested – Passed tests with WordPress version 6.8.3

1.3.3 – 01-18-2025

• Tested – Passed tests with WordPress version 6.7.1
• Fix – Added div element to clear float from form submit button

1.3.2 – 05-19-2024

• Tested – Passed tests with WordPress version 6.5.3

1.3.1 – 01-13-2024

• Tested – Passed tests with WordPress version 6.4.2
• Tested – Passed tests with PHP versions up to 8.1.23

1.3.0 – 07-03-2023

• Enhancement – Tweaked selective refresh to improve user experience for supported themes
• Enhancement – Text domain namespace added for internationalization support

1.2.0 – 04-15-2023

• Enhancement – Implemented selective refresh to improve user experience

1.1.1 – 03-18-2023

• Tested – Passed tests with WordPress version 6.2
• Tested – Passed tests with PHP versions up to 8.1.9
• Fix – Fixed variables for custom input attributes, which broke in PHP 8 and up.

1.1.0 – 01-16-2023

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 6.1.1
• Feature – Added ability to customize protected button appearance
• Enhancement – Enabled translation in plugin labels
• Enhancement – Minor cleanup

1.0.1 – 09-24-2022

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 6.0.2
• Enhancement – Added dismissible notice for plugin review

1.0.0 – 07-21-2022

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 6.0.1

1.0.0 – 05-25-2022

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 6.0

1.0.0 – 04-06-2022

• Tested – Passed test with WordPress version 5.9.3
• Enhancement – Updated default values for button and label

0.2.0 – 01-09-2022

• Enhancement – Made fields hide/show based on hide Prefix & Use Default checkboxes
• Enhancement – Added support for Divi password form
• Feature – Added option to display WordPress’ default form with widgets

0.1.0 – 08-31-2021

• Iniital Release