Privex Password Protect – Lock Pages, Posts & Categories

Description

Privex Password Protect – Secure Pages, Posts, WooCommerce & Categories

Privex Password Protect is the most versatile security solution for WordPress. Easily lock your entire website, specific pages, posts, WooCommerce products, or categories with single or multiple passwords. Whether you want to protect premium content or restrict access by user roles, Privex offers a high-end, AJAX-powered experience with stunning Glassmorphism aesthetics.

⚡ Why Privex is the #1 Choice for Content Protection?

Don’t settle for the basic, outdated WordPress password system. Privex gives you granular control, allowing you to create multiple passwords for the same page or restrict access based on specific user roles—all while maintaining a lightning-fast, SEO-friendly site.

🛡️ Core Protection Controls – Lock Anything, Anywhere

Privex offers ultimate flexibility. From a single blog post to your entire e-commerce store, you are in full control.

• Complete Website Lock: Secure your entire WordPress site with one global password. Perfect for staging, under-construction, or private sites.
• Per-Page & Per-Post Protection: Set unique passwords for specific pages or blog posts to keep your content exclusive.
• WooCommerce Product Protection: Fully compatible with WooCommerce! Lock specific products or your entire shop from unauthorized visitors.
• Category & Archive Protection: Restrict access to entire categories (including product categories) or groups of content at once.
• Multiple Password Support: Generate multiple unique passwords for a single page or post—ideal for sharing different keys with different clients.
• User Role-Based Access: Protect your content by user roles (e.g., Editor, Subscriber). Only the roles you permit can view the locked sections.
• Admin Auto-Bypass: Logged-in administrators bypass locks automatically, allowing you to edit and preview seamlessly.
• Smart Cookie-Based Access: Strict session management ensures visitors don’t have to re-enter passwords repeatedly during their visit.

✨ Premium Aesthetics & UI/UX – Protection with Style

Move away from boring default fields. Privex makes your protected pages look professional and modern.

• Glassmorphism Styling: Modern, trendy, and beautiful transparent UI aesthetics that look great on any theme.
• Seamless AJAX Unlock: Visitors enter the password and the content fades in instantly without a tedious page reload.
• 100% Fully Responsive: Pixel-perfect display on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.
• Modern Admin Dashboard: A sleek, intuitive settings panel to manage all your locks and security settings in one place.

🔐 Advanced Security & Anti-Spam

We combine ease of use with hardened security to keep the bots away.

• Brute-Force Protection: Built-in measures to prevent malicious bots from guessing your passwords.
• Multi-CAPTCHA Integration: Support for Google reCAPTCHA (v2 & v3), Cloudflare Turnstile, and hCaptcha to stop automated attacks.
• Strict Privacy Compliance: Scripts only load when enabled, ensuring your site remains lightweight and privacy-focused.

🤫 True Privacy & SEO Control

Privex is designed to ensure your protected data doesn’t “leak” through other WordPress channels.

• Site Search & RSS Exclusion: Protected pages, posts, and products are automatically hidden from internal search and RSS feeds.
• Excerpt & Snippet Hiding: Prevents WordPress from displaying snippets of your locked content in archives or grids.
• Custom Post Type Support: Works perfectly with any custom post types you have installed.

⚡ Performance Optimized

• Transient Caching: Lightning-fast access checks using the WordPress transient system.
• Zero Bloat: Lightweight architecture that follows strict WordPress coding standards—no performance lag, ever.

🔌 Seamless Compatibility – Works with Your Favorite Tools

Privex is engineered to be lightweight and highly compatible. It works out of the box with the most popular page builders, themes, and plugins in the WordPress ecosystem.

• Popular Page Builders: Fully compatible with Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Oxygen, Bricks, and Visual Composer.
• Gutenberg Ready: Works flawlessly with the native WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg).
• WooCommerce Integration: Secure your Shop page, specific Product pages, or entire Product Categories with ease.
• Caching Plugin Friendly: Optimized for WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, and W3 Total Cache—ensuring security doesn’t break your site’s speed.
• Translation Ready: Fully compatible with WPML, Polylang, and Loco Translate for multilingual websites.
• Standard Themes: Works with all standard-compliant themes like Astra, Hello Elementor, OceanWP, and GeneratePress.

External Services

This plugin optionally connects to third-party CAPTCHA services to protect password forms from automated bot attacks. These services are only used when the site administrator explicitly enables and configures them in the plugin settings (Pass Protect → Security → CAPTCHA Integration). No data is sent to any external service unless the administrator actively chooses a CAPTCHA provider and enters valid API keys.

Google reCAPTCHA (v2 and v3)

When Google reCAPTCHA is selected as the CAPTCHA provider, this plugin loads the reCAPTCHA JavaScript library from Google’s servers on frontend password-protected pages. Upon form submission, the CAPTCHA response token is sent to Google’s verification API along with your site’s secret key and the visitor’s IP address for validation.

• Service provider: Google LLC
• What data is sent: CAPTCHA response token, site secret key, visitor IP address
• When data is sent: Each time a visitor submits a password form on a protected page (only when reCAPTCHA is enabled)
• Service terms of use: https://policies.google.com/terms
• Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

hCaptcha

When hCaptcha is selected as the CAPTCHA provider, this plugin loads the hCaptcha JavaScript library from hCaptcha’s servers on frontend password-protected pages. Upon form submission, the CAPTCHA response token is sent to hCaptcha’s verification API along with your site’s secret key for validation.

• Service provider: Intuition Machines, Inc.
• What data is sent: CAPTCHA response token, site secret key
• When data is sent: Each time a visitor submits a password form on a protected page (only when hCaptcha is enabled)
• Service terms of use: https://www.hcaptcha.com/terms
• Privacy policy: https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy

Cloudflare Turnstile

When Cloudflare Turnstile is selected as the CAPTCHA provider, this plugin loads the Turnstile JavaScript library from Cloudflare’s servers on frontend password-protected pages. Upon form submission, the CAPTCHA response token is sent to Cloudflare’s verification API along with your site’s secret key and the visitor’s IP address for validation.

• Service provider: Cloudflare, Inc.
• What data is sent: CAPTCHA response token, site secret key, visitor IP address
• When data is sent: Each time a visitor submits a password form on a protected page (only when Turnstile is enabled)
• Service terms of use: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/
• Privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

Developer Instructions

This plugin does not use any build tools. All source code is provided as-is. No compilation or bundling is required.