[Doug]

Private entries are only for logged-in users to see, correct? So a good option for personal, family-type entries in a church directory? Are these normal WordPress users or some independent user structure?

Follow-up question, assuming that these are normal WordPress users: is there any mechanism by which we could hide the directory behind a single user that was not a general WordPress user? I’m trying to think about the usage pattern where people don’t otherwise need WordPress accounts (and having to manage active users & accounts has a non-zero cost), but we would still want to hide personal directory information behind some kind of authentication. Could we create a single WordPress user and restrict it to being able to do nothing else except view the directory?

 

[Steven Zahm]

@ Doug

Yes, private entries can only be view by a logged in user that is registered with the site which is a WordPress user.

To answer you followup question, just put Connections on a page and mark it private and set a password and set the entries to public. No user management required. Only individuals with the password can view that page and therefore Connections. Alternatively, you could create a single user and distribute that user/password and set the directory to require login and leave the entries set as as public. I hope that makes sense.

[Doug]

Ahhh… I’m not real experienced with WordPress, so I didn’t even realize there was that Password Protected page capability. Thanks!

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