Password protect your digital download category archives, and the products inside them.
Contributors: fjarrett
Tags: ecommerce, shop, shopping, store, edd
Requires at least: 4.0
Tested up to: 4.2
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GPLv2
EDD requires at least: 2.3.9
EDD tested up to: 2.3.9
Take full control over who can access your digital download category archives!
- Feature certain products for VIP customers only
- Great for membership sites with downloadable products
- Prompts users for a password when they attempt to access a restricted category
- Products belonging to restricted categories are automatically password protected too
- Whitelist roles and users who should always have access without requiring a password
- Works out of the box for Download Tag archives too!
Yes. By default, products that belong to restricted categories are also restricted when their URL is accessed directly by unauthenticated users.
However, this behavior can be overridden using the eddrc_restrict_post filter by adding this hook as an MU plugin or to your theme's functions.php file:
function my_custom_eddrc_restrict_post( $restrict_post, $post_id, $taxonomy, $term_id ) {
return false; // URLs to all products belonging to restricted categories can be accessed directly
}
add_filter( 'eddrc_restrict_post', 'my_custom_eddrc_restrict_post', 10, 4 );Optionally, you can also use the $post_id, $taxonomy and/or $term_id parameters for more granular control over which products should be restricted.
Yes! If there are special users or roles that you don't want to restrict, you can whitelist them easily when editing the category.
Whitelisting means that these users will always have access to the category without requiring a password.
Yes. By default, the download_category and download_tags taxonomies will both have the option of being restricted.
However, you can add/remove supported taxonomies as you wish using the eddrc_taxonomies filter by adding this hook as an MU plugin or to your theme's functions.php file:
function my_custom_eddrc_taxonomies() {
return array( 'download_category', 'download_tag', 'my_custom_taxonomy' );
}
add_filter( 'eddrc_taxonomies', 'my_custom_eddrc_taxonomies' );After a user enters the password for a restricted category they will be granted access for 1 hour via a session cookie.
After 1 hour their cookie will expire and they will be required to re-enter the password.
The only exception is that if you change the password, access for any existing authenticated users will immediately expire and they will be required to enter the new password you have set.
The default cookie TTL (time to live) can be customized easily using the eddrc_auth_cookie_ttl filter by adding this hook as an MU plugin or to your theme's functions.php file:
function my_custom_eddrc_auth_cookie_ttl( $ttl, $taxonomy, $term_id ) {
return DAY_IN_SECONDS; // Time in seconds
}
add_filter( 'eddrc_auth_cookie_ttl', 'my_custom_eddrc_auth_cookie_ttl', 10, 3 );Optionally, you can also use the $taxonomy and/or $term_id parameters to set a taxonomy-specific or term-specific TTL.
See also Easier Expression of Time Constants in the Codex.
- Initial release
Props fjarrett