How to Create a Password-Protected Area for Customers or Members in WordPress

Create a Section of Website Only Meant for Subscribers/Members


How to Create a Password-Protected Area for Customers or Members in WordPress

by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com

I was asked by a visitor how he could create an area (or even just a page) on his WordPress site that contained material meant only for customers. In particular, he wanted members who have paid a subscription to be able to download certain files. This article discusses how you can set up a section of your WordPress blog that can only be accessed by members or customers or people whom you specifically allow.

Incidentally, if you don't use WordPress and your intention is something simple like cordon off a section of your website for a fairly fixed number of people, for example, you want to set up some pages with photos that only family members can see, you can also use the alternative of password protecting a folder (ie, directory) of your website, and giving the relevant people the password to it.

Easiest Way to Create a Membership Section of Your WordPress Blog

The simplest and fastest way to set up an exclusive members-only section of your WordPress blog is to look for a plugin that does the job (and install it).

For those unfamiliar with where to look for such software, the WordPress site itself has a huge repository of plugins. To narrow your search, the plugins that do the tasks mentioned above can usually be found listed in the memberships, member, members-only, and members tag pages. Click the links in the previous sentence to get to the pages that list the software. You may need to try all of those tag pages to get a more complete list, since not every developer uses the same tag for his/her plugin.

Before you install any, please note the following things:

Although I say that installing a plugin is the easiest way to add this facility, it doesn't mean that there is no work involved, especially if you want to customize the plugin (which you will undoubtedly want to do). You will need to read their documentation, and some things may require you to have a bit of technical knowledge. That said, the amount of knowlege you will need for the task is probably less than if you were to implement your own subscription/membership facility from scratch.

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