How to Secure a Category or Taxonomy

The Password-protected WordPress plugin allows you to protect a category or taxonomy and all the posts that fall under it. This feature offers a versatile way to safeguard your WordPress site’s specific content.

Note: This feature is exclusively available in the Pro version of Password Protected. Get the Password Protected Pro Now. 

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Accessing and Enabling Category/Taxonomy Protection:

Before securing a category or taxonomy with password protection, ensure that you have installed and activated Password Protected Pro. Once you’ve completed that step, follow these instructions to access and enable this feature.

• Navigate to your WordPress admin dashboard.
• Click on the “Password Protected” plugin in the side menu.

• Navigate to the “Taxonomy Protection” sub-tab after clicking the “Content Protection” tab from the top navigation tabs.

Category/Taxonomy Protection

The following options are in the “Category/Taxonomy Protection” tab.

1. Protect Categories/Taxonomies.
2. Protect Post-Tags.

Protect Categories:

This option enables you to password-protect entire categories or taxonomies, along with the posts they encompass. To enable category/taxonomy protection, follow the specified steps:

• Mark the “Category” checkbox.

• Go to the Category page under the Post section in the side menu.
• Scroll down to the Password Protected Pro section.
• Choose one or more categories or taxonomies you want to protect from the drop-down menu. Click the Save Changes button.

• On clicking the Save Changes button after marking the Enable Password Protection checkbox.

• You will find fields to configure the password settings for your categories and taxonomies.

1. Password: Enter the password you want to use for your category protection.
2. Usage Limit: Enter the number of times a user can access your post of that category with this password.
3. Expiry: Enter the date when the password will expire and no longer work.
4. Status: Choose whether to activate, deactivate, or expire the password.

•  Click “Save Password” to apply password protection to your category or categories.

• The Password Detail Logs will be shown at the end of the password-protected section.

Note: If you enable site-wide password protection and users have already entered the site-wide password, they won’t need to enter the category or taxonomy password again.

Protect Post Tags:

This option enables you to password-protect post tags, which means posts with those associated tags will be password-protected. To enable post-tags protection, follow these steps.

• Mark the “Post-tags” checkbox.

• Go to the Tags under the Post section in the side menu.

• Scroll down to the Password Protected Pro section.
• Choose one or more Post-Tags you want to protect from the drop-down menu. Click the Save Changes button.

• On clicking the Save Changes button after marking the Enable Password Protection checkbox.
• You will find some fields to configure the password settings for your post-tags protection.

• You will find fields to configure the password settings for your categories and taxonomies.

1. Password: Enter the password you want to use for your category protection.
2. Usage Limit: Enter the number of times a user can access your post of that category with this password.
3. Expiry: Enter the date when the password will expire and no longer work.
4. Status: Choose whether to activate, deactivate, or expire the password.

• Click “Save Password” to apply password protection to your category or categories.

The Password Details Page will be shown at the end of the password-protected section.

Note: If you enable site-wide password protection and users have already entered the site-wide password, they won’t need to enter the Post-Tag password again.

Understanding the Protection Levels:

The Password Protected WordPress Plugin Pro offers various levels of protection for your content, including site-wide, global, category/taxonomy, or post-tags, and individual post/page protection. When multiple protection levels are configured on your site, it is essential to understand how they interact with each other.

Password Entry:

Suppose you have more than one protection level enabled on your site, such as site-wide protection and category/taxonomy or post-tag protection. In that case, users only need to enter the password for the highest level of security.

The order of protection levels is as follows: Site > Global > Category/Taxonomy or Post Tags> Individual Post/Page.

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