I would like to password protect a page on my blog. Wordpress allows me to give one single password to each protected page. Is there a way to create more than one valid password to access that page?
There is a plugin you could use: https://wordpress.org/plugins/multiple-post-passwords/
In your functions.php you could create a shortcode that shows the link only if a valid password was supplied. This would look like the following code (untested):
function protected_download_handler( $atts ){
if (in_array(@$_REQUEST['password'], array('password1', 'password2', 'password3')) {
$return = '<a href="link/to/download/">Download</a>';
} else {
$return = '<form action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="password">
<input type="submit">
</form>';
}
return $return;
}
add_shortcode( 'protected_download', 'protected_download_handler' );
And in your page you can use it by adding
[protected_download]
I'm pretty sure that there are also plugins that do what you need.
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