How to encrypt your site's content and provide access to a specific number of users

There are several aspects regarding the protection mechanism on the WordPress website, and the most important aspect and what we will specifically mention in our article is encrypting the content with a password, where you can choose a specific person to whom we give access to this information so that he can control, view and modify the content that you want. If you own a WordPress website and have valuable content that you want to make available to a group of individuals only, you can encrypt that content with a password that can use it to access the designated content. In this article, we will learn how to protect content with a password, step by step.

Why do I protect the content on my WordPress site with a password?

In fact, there are several reasons and motivations that make you resort to using a password for protection, and we will list the most prominent of them as follows: Giving users and members roles with specific powers. If we want to provide access to the contents of the site to specific users, we will need to give these users the right to access these contents. This will be through a password for each user that is unique to him. That is, if our site is a blog and we have several writers and bloggers, we will need to give them access to certain pages and not to all parts of the site, and here comes the role of password protection, as we can Allocate each section of the site with a specific authority and a password to obtain that authority. Paid Subscriptions On many sites, there are paid subscriptions that give subscribers additional benefits over the basic benefits for the average visitor, such as: periodic newsletters, distinguished articles, five-star services, support services, etc. It is common to use password protection for this purpose on sites that are interested in selling training courses and education online, so that the subscriber who contributed to a paid subscription to your site receives a password that allows him to enter certain pages of the site and benefit from the exclusive content therein. Private and sensitive content: If you have a blog and publish sensitive content or information for a specific category of visitors, or if you own an online store and have a long list of customer accounts and their financial balances, you can protect the content you want with a password, and give the password to these categories you want. To give them the right and ability to access and view the content.

Steps to protect your site's content The first obvious step is to create member accounts on the site. Of course, you can classify them according to specific categories, and each category has specific access powers to parts of the site, and this step in itself is an additional means of protection to prevent site contributors and visitors alike from accessing other site settings. For example: the rank of writer differs from the rank of editor and also from the rank of manager on the site, so each of them has his own job and powers. Protecting an entire article, post, or page You can encrypt the entire page with its contents (article or post) and not provide access to it except by entering a password. You can do this through the WordPress settings through the page settings themselves as follows: This simple task can be accomplished by changing the appearance status setting, located in the “Status and Appearance” tab, from the “General” option to “Password Protected” and then entering the password you want, and thus your article or page becomes password protected.

Protect the entire site if necessary. You can protect the site completely instead of protecting categories or pages themselves, through some add-ons that perform this task with high efficiency and security. The most prominent examples of these add-ons are the “Password Prot e cted” add-on. In this explanation, we will use the “Password Protected” add-on, by installing and activating the add-on as we mentioned in the previous add-ons, then we will go to the settings and then choose “Password Protected” or “Password Protected”.

The page shown above will appear, which includes the settings for the addition. What you have to do now is activate the password protection option, and choose the people who have access permissions and set the password to obtain those permissions. Through this page, you can also grant access through the IP address of the device used. After selecting these options, click “Save changes.”

The image above shows what the site will look like when a browser tries to access it, as the visitor will be asked to enter the password to view the contents within the site. Read also: Building a page (wait for us soon) - (under maintenance) using custom plugins. This was a simple explanation of how to encrypt content on a WordPress website in simple steps, to determine the accessibility of the site’s content to some users and not others. Always be sure to investigate various means and strategies that increase the level of security on your site.