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Protecting WordPress Posts & Pages

  • Log in to DAP Dashboard and go to the “Products/Lists” page.
  • Select the product to which you want this blog post/page to be a part of
  • Scroll down to the “ContentResponder” section
  • On the left, you will see a list of blog posts & pages that have been published (if you scroll down in the window where the list of “posts” show, you will also see list of “pages”)

  • Select one or more (hold Ctrl + Click to select multiple)
  • Click on “Add Selected Posts/Pages” to protect the posts/pages.
  • The post(s)/page(s) will now show up on the right-hand side of the box.
  • Click on “edit” next to each link to configure dripping for individual posts/pages.
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Brian - November 11, 2010

I am considering moving over to DAP from amember but there is one small thing DAP must do for this to happen. I need for DAP to use tags so I can protect just a part of a post or page from members that are not allowed.

Example, on my site http://expostop.com if you click on any video you are taken to the post, this single post is split with a more tag, the protect part is at the top and the none protected at the bottom. This is done by using 3 tags [protect=product#] what I want to hide, [else] what is shown if visitor does not have access, [/protect] closes the loop.

Does DAP have the ablity to protect parts of posts or pages this way? If not is it on the list and when could we expect it?

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Ravi Jayagopal - November 13, 2010

Brian,

We’re working on a DAP ShortCode Framework that will allow you to do exactly that. It should be out in a few weeks, as part of v4.0.

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Zaq - February 28, 2012

If I protect a page on my blog that is a parent page, are all of my child pages protected as well? Is there a special way to do it?

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Brian - February 29, 2012

I can answer that. The answer is no. You will have to protect each page.

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Marites - February 1, 2013

Hello,

We’re building a subscription news site. We will be having different contributors of news from all over the world. We will have new posts every day maybe around 10 posts.

Can we automatically protect posts in WordPress without adding each URL in the ContentResponder?

Thank you.

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Ravi Jayagopal - February 1, 2013

Yes, you can do this using Category protection.

Just protect the category permalink once, and then all future posts assigned to it will automatically be protected – you never have to visit the ContentResponder tab again.

See http://DigitalAccessPass.com/documentation/?page=/doc/protecting-an-entire-wordpress-category/

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Marites - February 1, 2013

Hi Ravi,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

What if we have free posts in each category? What’s the best way to implement this.

Thanks again.

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Cameron - February 19, 2013

Hello,

For some reason new content isn’t being added to “Available Content” on the ContentResponder page. There is a work around by manually adding each URL – but is there any reason why new content isn’t being added?

Thanks,

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Cameron - February 19, 2013

I should have added:

The refresh button doesn’t seem to do anything, and I have also logged out and started again – all to no avail…

Cheers,

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Veena Prashanth - February 20, 2013

Hi Marites,

>>What if we have free posts in each category? What’s the best way to implement this. << Then do not protect the entire category. Protect individual posts. If you protect the full category, then all posts under it will get protected. Thanks, Veena

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Veena Prashanth - February 20, 2013

Hi Cameron,

>>For some reason new content isn’t being added to “Available Content” on the ContentResponder page. < < Please go to WP admin -> settings -> permalinks -> hit save and the content should show up in the “Available Content” section on the ContentResponder page.

Thanks,
Veena

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Hans - March 12, 2013

Hello Veena,

I’ve just installed DAP in the root folder of my wp site and I try to protect the pages. Now, when I go to products&levels/manage and I click the tab Content Responder, I had expect to see the list with all my available pages in the left box, so I could copy them over to the right column. But I cannot see any of my pages there. I cannot see anything in the documentation about what goes wrong. What do I do wrong?

Thanks for your help.

Hans

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Hans - March 12, 2013

Ah, I forgot to browse through the posts above.. You already gave the answer in a previous post. Thanks!

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Ryan - December 11, 2014

Is there anyway to protect menu links for certain subscriptions? this is how I have my site setup now and how I would prefer to leave setup as far as how users access products.

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Veena Prashanth - December 11, 2014

Hi Ryan,

Can’t do it for certain subscriptions but you can do it site wide.

Please go to DAP Setup -> Config -> WordPress Related -> Show protected (and not-dripped-yet) links in menu? to “NO”.

The protected items will only show up in the menu if the users have access to it.

Thanks,
Veena

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Dana - September 14, 2015

Hello!

If I change the site’s permalink structure, will I have to re-protect all of the individual posts currently protected? I know I could just test it and see but I’m wary of having to re-protect hundreds of hand-picked posts.

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Veena Prashanth - September 14, 2015

Hi Dana,

Yes, if you change the site’s permalink structure, you will have to re-protect the posts.

Thanks,
Veena

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sandra - February 22, 2016

Is there a way to order your posts as mine run through in a sequence. Adding them to the protected area jumbles them up.. I did see somewhere whether to do it by date or latest first but I cannot find that now.

Thanks
Sandra

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sandra - February 22, 2016

OOps never mind they are draggable 🙂

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