Title: Protected Post Personalizer
Author: Orin
Published: <strong>October 16, 2008</strong>
Last modified: January 24, 2009

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Protected Post Personalizer

 By [Orin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/orin/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/protected-post-personalizer.0.6.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/protected-post-personalizer/#installation)
 * [Development](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/protected-post-personalizer/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/protected-post-personalizer/)

## Description

This plugin is a simple one, but good at what it does. It changes three elements
of protected posts to make them more friendly to visitors.

### Prefixes:

 * customize prefix for password-protected posts from default “Protected: “
 * customize prefix for private posts from “Private: “

### Custom Previews:

 * ability to use the post’s excerpt (if one is saved) when no password is given
 * ability to show custom text for all password-protected posts
 * if no saved excerpt, show the default OR use custom site-wide text

### Password Form:

 * change text before the password input box
 * change text of submit button
 * add custom CSS; set class or ID for theme integration

#### Change Log

0.6 – corrected for WordPress 2.7, which handles protected and private posts differently.

0.5 – initial public release

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Seen here with (mostly) default options. The ‘Assign ID, Class, or Inline Styles’
   box has been given an example setting, because Wordpress’ default is no id, class,
   or style.
 * [[
 * These are my personal settings for [glot.homepie.org](http://glot.homepie.org/)(
   seen with colorful customized CSS for the Alluric Admin plugin).

## Installation

 1. Upload `protected-post-personalizer.php` to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. In the ‘Settings’ menu click ‘Protected Posts Personalizer’ and change any text
    you want, then click Save Changes.

## FAQ

  Does this change the way WordPress handles passwords?

No, not at all. This plugin is specifically for changing how password-protected 
and private posts are displayed. Changing these will not affect the password system
at all.

  What if I only want to change one thing and nothing else?

That’s fine. All plugin defaults are WordPress defaults. If you install it and don’t
change the values, nothing will appear different.

  Can anything go in the ‘Assign ID, Class, or Inline Styles’ box?

Tecnically, yes. This option inserts text _directly_ into the <p> tag of the password
form. That means that, while you _could_ put anything in there, if you put something
which is invalid HTML or XHTML odd things will probably happen. Additionally, you’re
site won’t [validate](http://validator.w3.org/).

  What if I want to keep the default post previews, but also want to use a customized
password form?

No can do. Because the text of the custom password form relies on having a custom
function to call it, you must use one of the ‘custom’ options. It’s practically 
the same thing. Is it that important to tell visitors “There is no excerpt because
this post is password protected”? Because, in fact, that’s the only difference.

  Neato! But I was really hoping for a protected post plugin that would do…

Please, please do submit any ideas for the future at the [plugin’s homepage](http://glot.homepie.org/plugins/protected-post-personalizer/).
If you can think them and I can program them, we’ve got ourselves a new feature.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Protected Post Personalizer” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Orin ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/orin/)

[Translate “Protected Post Personalizer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/protected-post-personalizer)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/protected-post-personalizer/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/protected-post-personalizer/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/protected-post-personalizer/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/protected-post-personalizer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **0.6**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/protected-post-personalizer/)
 * Tags
 * [formatting](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/formatting/)[password](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/password/)
   [posts](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[title](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/title/)
   [titles](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/titles/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://frp.wordpress.org/plugins/protected-post-personalizer/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Orin ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/orin/)

## Support

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