Password protection for Membership Options

Hi Guys,
Our site is a for Ayurvedic Practitioners and we need to pre-approve members and validate their documentation before they can be allowed to access the membership options. It doesn’t need to be high security, just a generic key which we will send out with the link to the membership options page (which we would need not to be public). How could we set this up please?

For clarity, if I password protect the page will this mess with the S2 requirement that the options page must always be public. Might it cause a conflict?

Hi Ayurveda,

For clarity, if I password protect the page will this mess with the S2 requirement that the options page must always be public. Might it cause a conflict?

Yes, this may cause conflicts for the page. Instead of using default WordPress functionality for this, you can set up an if() statement for this. Download and install a PHP Execution plugin on your site, and put something like this at the top of your page:

<?php
if($_REQUEST&#91;'s2hack_access_page'&#93; !== 'xxxyyyzzz') { ?>
	You do not have access to this page.
<?php } else { ?>
	They have access to the page. Put content here
<?php } ?>

With this, you can send users to

http://yoursite.com/my-membership-options-page/?s2hack_access_page=xxxyyyzzz

This will allow users to then sign up.

Great, thanks Bruce.

Hi Bruce,
I’ve tried this with a few of the php plugins but I can’t get the code to function with the link. The page remains blank and the text ‘You do not have access to this page.’ does not appear and when I use the link :

http://yoursite.com/my-membership-options-page/?s2hack_access_page=xxxyyyzzz

it refreshes as :

http://yoursite.com/my-membership-options-page?s2hack_access_page=xxxyyyzzz

but the page remains blank. Any ideas what may be going wrong?

Thank you.

For clarity, I am inserting my site prefix and page name into the url.

Could you try this?

[hilite pre_code]

You do not have access to this page.

They have access to the page. Put content here

[/hilite]

Hi Cristian,
With this I can see the text:

“They have access to the page. Put content here”

But I see it without using the password.

*UPDATE*

The fault was my end guys. It was plugin related. For anyone facing this requirement and issue, try:

php-execution

plugin from the wordpress.org repository. Although it came with a warning that it hadn’t been updated for 2 years and may not work with the current version of wordpress, it is the only one that has worked correctly. I guess it was just well coded in the first place!

I used the original code supplied to me by Bruce and the token/key url is now functioning perfectly.

Thanks.

Yep, works like a dream.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by  Ayurveda.

Glad to hear you got this resolved.