Password Protected – Ultimate Plugin to Password Protect Your WordPress Content with Ease

Registro de cambios

2.6.6

• Improvement – Added support for HTML in the above and bottom text displayed in the password screen.

2.6.5.1

• Ensured seamless compatibility with the latest WordPress version

2.6.5

• Fixed – Login Designer compatibility issues.

2.6.4

• Fixed – Added compatibility for PHP version 8.2

2.6.3.2

• Update – Feedback library updated

2.6.3.1

• Fix – Parse error related to PHP version 7.2

2.6.3

• New – Added Freemius SDK integration.
• New – Added functionality to login with transient if the cookies are blocked.
• Fix – Fixed Redirect Issue from excluded page to password protected page.

2.6.2

• Fix – Parse error related to PHP version 7.2

2.6.1

• Fix – Parse error related to PHP version 7.2
• Update – Link to official Google Re-captcha documentation

2.6.0

• Improved admin settings interface and introduced NEW tabs structure.
• NEW: Added Google Recaptcha v2 and v3 to make it more secure.
• NEW: Added Password Protected top-level admin menu for ease.
• NEW: Added option to add text above password Field.
• NEW: Added option to add text below password Field.

2.5.3

• Improved Settings HTML structure
• Added Note regarding compatibility with login designer within dashboard

2.5.2

• Made compatibility with Login Designer; Now you can customize the password-protected screen with the customizer using login designer plugin.

2.5.1

• Fix – Author name conflict resolved

2.5

• Deprecate wp_no_robots and replace with wp_robots_no_robots for WordPress 5.7+

2.4

• Add a Nocache header to the login page redirect to prevent the browser from caching the redirect page. Props De’Yonte W.
• Remove ‘password-protected’ query from redirects on successful login or logout.
• Check «redirect_to» query var is set in hidden form field. Props Matthias Kittsteiner.
• Añadir favicon a la página de inicio de sesión protegida con contraseña

2.3

• Adds password_protected_cookie_name filter for the cookie name. Props Jose Castaneda.
• Let developers override the capability needed to see the options page via a password_protected_options_page_capability filter. Props Nicola Peluchetti.
• Don’t use a «testcookie» POST query as it is blocked by Namecheap (and possibly other hosts).
• Fix warnings in W3 validator – script and style “type” attribute not required. Props @dianamurcia.
• Translations now via translate.wordpress.org.
• Updated URL references. Props Garrett Hyder.

2.2.5

• Added password_protected_login_password_title filter to allow customizing the «Password» label on the login form. Props Jeremy Herve.
• Fix stray «and» in readme. Props Viktor Szépe.
• Update Portuguese translation. Props Jonathan Hult.
• Update Russian translation. Props Alexey Chumakov.

2.2.4

• Check that $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] is set.

2.2.3

• Restrict REST-API-access only if password protection is active.
• Added viewport meta tag to login page.
• Added password_protected_show_login filter.
• Cookie name is not editable in the admin so display just for reference.
• Use default WordPress text domain for “Remember Me” and “Log In” buttons.

2.2.2

• Change locked admin bar icon to green.
• Fix REST option and always allow access to REST API for logged in users.

2.2.1

• Fixed PHP error when calculating cookie expiration date.

2.2

• Added admin bar icon to indicate wether password protection is enabled/disabled.
• Option to show «Remember me» checkbox. Props Christian Güdel.
• REST API access disabled if password not entered.
• Admin option to allow REST API access.
• More robust checking of password hashes.

2.1

• Update caching notes for WP Engine and W3 Total Cache plugin.
• Tested up to WordPress 4.8

2.0.3

• Declare methods as public or private and use PHP5 constructors.
• Show user’s IP address beside «Allow IP Addresses» admin setting.
• Add CHANGELOG.md and README.md

2.0.2

• Check allowed IP addresses are valid when saving.
• Only redirect to allowed domain names when logging out.

2.0.1

• Split logout functionality into separate function.
• Security fix: Use a more complex password hash for cookie key. Props Marcin Bury, Securitum.

2.0

• Added password_protected_logout_link shortcode.
• Load ‘password-protected-login.css’ in theme folder if it exists.
• Added password_protected_stylesheet_file filter to specify alternate stylesheet location.
• Added is_user_logged_in(), login_url(), logout_url() and logout_link() methods.
• Added Basque, Czech, Greek, Lithuanian and Norwegian translations.
• Better handling of login/out redirects when protection is not active on home page.

1.9

• Fixed «Allow Users» functionality with is_user_logged_in(). Props PatRaven.
• Added option for allowed IP addresses which can bypass the password protection.
• Added ‘password_protected_is_active’ filter.

1.8

• Support for adding «password-protected-login.php» in theme directory.
• Allow filtering of the ‘redirect to’ URL via the ‘password_protected_login_redirect_url’ filter.
• Added ‘password_protected_login_messages’ action to output errors and messages in template.
• Updated translations.
• Use current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) instead of time() to take into account site timezone.
• Check login earlier in the template_redirect action.

1.7.2

• Fix always allow access to robots.txt.
• Added ‘password_protected_login_redirect’ filter.
• Updated translations.

1.7.1

• Fix login template compatibility for WordPress 3.9

1.7

• Remove JavaScript that disables admin RSS checkbox.
• Added ‘password_protected_theme_file’ filter to allow custom login templates.
• Add option to allow logged in users.

1.6.2

• Set login page not to index if privacy setting is on.
• Allow redirection to a different URL when logging out using ‘redirect_to’ query and full URL.

1.6.1

• Language updates by wp-translations.org (Arabic, Dutch, French, Persian, Russian).

1.6

• Robots.txt is now always accessible.
• Added support for Uber Login Logo plugin.

1.5

• Added note about WP Engine compatibility to readme.txt
• Requires WordPress 3.1+
• Settings now have their own page.
• Fixed an open redirect vulnerability. Props Chris Campbell.

1.4

• Add option to allow administrators to use the site without logging in.
• Use DONOTCACHEPAGE to try to prevent some caching issues.
• Added a contextual help tab for WordPress 3.3+.
• Updated login screen styling for WordPress 3.5 compatibility.
• Options are now on the ‘Reading’ settings page in WordPress 3.5

1.3

• Added checkbox to allow access to feeds when protection is enabled.
• Prepare for WordPress 3.5 Settings API changes.
• Added ‘password_protected_before_login_form’ and ‘password_protected_after_login_form’ actions.
• Added ‘password_protected_process_login’ filter to make it possible to extend login functionality.
• Now possible to use ‘pre_update_option_password_protected_password’ filter to use password before it is encrypted and saved.
• Ready for translations.

1.2.2

• Show login error messages.
• Escape ‘redirect_to’ attribute. Props A. Alagha.

1.2.1

• Added a «How to log out?» FAQ.
• Only disable feeds when protection is active.

1.2

• Use cookies instead of sessions.

1.1

• Encrypt passwords in database.

1.0

• First Release. If you spot any bugs or issues please log them here.