Plugin info

Total downloads: 6,134
Active installs: 500
Total reviews: 6
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 6/21/2025 (189 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 7/10/2015 (10 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.4
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 189 days ago • 6 reviews

40/100

Is Password Passthrough abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 189 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.4
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: f

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Description

This plugin allows passwords for password-protected pages/posts to be passed directly through the URL.

The query string parameter that should contain the password is pw.

For example, if the URL of your post is http://myblog.com/password-protected-page/ and the password is PASSWORD,
then just append ?pw=PASSWORD to it.

If the URL already contains a query string (for example, http://myblog.com/?p=5), then be sure to append &pw=PASSWORD instead.

Installation

In order to install the plugin, please follow these steps:

  1. Upload plugin-name.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

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Changelog

1.0

  • First released version.

1.1.0

  • Plugin now strips the pw parameter from the URL after the respective cookie has been stored by WordPress.

2.0.0

  • Updates to work with WordPress 5.4 and up to 6.8.1 – thanks to
    @grappler !