Protection: WordPress Blog Posts and Files – FAQ
How do I protect a blog post?
- Log in to DAP Dashboard and go to the “Products/Lists” page.
- Select the product to which you want this blog post 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
- Select one or more (hold Ctrl + Click to select multiple)
- Click on “Add Selected Posts/Pages” to protect the posts/pages.
- It will now show up on the right-hand side of the box.
- Click on “Edit” next to each link to configure dripping.
How do I protect a file?
Use the “File Browser” on the “Products/Lists” page to browse through a folder on your web site, and next to each file, you will see an “Add” link. Clicking on that link will add that file to the product.
I have protected a blog post. But I can still view it without logging in.
1. Are you already logged in a a user who has access to that link? Maybe logged in as DAP Admin, and that is why you are able to access the link? If so, either log out of DAP, or visit your blog in a completely new browser (if you’re logged in as DAP Admin in FireFox, then visit your blog using Internet Explorer).
2. After you set up DAP, did you visit the “Permalinks” section and click on the “Save” button at least once (even if you didn’t make any changes to your permalinks structure)?
3. Have you added the blog post to a Product? If you don’t add it to a DAP Product, the post or file won’t be protected.
Can I protect an entire category of posts at one go?
Yes, absolutely!
See Protecting An Entire WordPress Category.
Why do I see all of the protected posts on my blog’s home page? (OR) I don’t want the links to all my blog posts showing up on my blog
Make sure you have “Sneak-Peek” turned off in the DAP Admin Config section. Once you do that, posts that are protected will not be displayed on the home page as well as if someone tried to visit the link directly.
When I try to browse through the files on my server, on the Products page, I get a popup error msg that says ‘There was an error returning data”.
(OR)
When adding Folder name ‘To Protect Files’ option the js loader keeps on loading.
On looking at the Error Console of the browser it shows the error”Error: missing ) in parenthetical”
Source File: http://www.yoursite.com/dap/admin/addEditProducts.php?productId=1
Line: 29, Column: 8
Source Code: (Unable to open ../../../AdminSorry, too many files being returned. Please use filter to reduce the number.)
Answer: Those are all symptoms of the same issue: Too many files to load in the little “file browser” section, and DAP is timing out.
If you know the path to the file, then just form the URL directly in your text editor – like…
http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/interview.mp3 (example)
Visit the link to make sure that there is no typo in the URL, and make sure that the file is there for download (you’ll see the “Download or Save as” popup).
Then simply paste that URL into the Add URL field and protect it.
