Full Page Protection Plugin

[KB]

I’m trying to use the full page protection plugin to protect some pdfs but when I enter the URL of the pdf and save it, then go to my website I need to log in to see the website it actually locks me out of the complete website.

I have placed a tick in the Lock down specific page URLs and entered my URL as https://www.mywebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/active-listening.pdf

Can you please advise if I am doing something incorrectly or if there is a workaround

[mbrsolution]

Hi, please let me know if you have read the following instructions?

https://simple-membership-plugin.com/full-page-protection-addon-simple-membership/

Thank you.

[KB]

Yes I have read these

[mbrsolution]

Hi,

I’m trying to use the full page protection plugin to protect some pdfs but when I enter the URL of the pdf and save it, then go to my website I need to log in to see the website it actually locks me out of the complete website.

Are you login in as an administrator? If you are then please check the following documentation. Let me know if this helps you.

https://simple-membership-plugin.com/giving-wordpress-admin-user-access-protected-content/

Thank you.

[KB]

No this is not the problem, the entire site is locked so no one can see any of the website when I add in the pdf URLs which I actually want locked

[admin]

Looks like you are trying to protect a static file (which is not handled by our plugin). The following explanation will be helpful.

There are two parts to a media item/file:

1) The attachment page that WordPress will create when you upload the media file via the media uploader.
2) The actual static file (example: yourdomain.com/testfile.jpg) that you can access by going directly to that static file’s URL (this doesn’t go via the WordPress system). The above mentioned attachment page will link to this static file.

The attachment page and the static file are two separate items. The 2nd item won’t be handled by our plugin at the moment. Different people will handle the storage of static files differently (for example: some people will prefer to put their files on amazon S3). So we don’t have a universal way of handling this at the moment. We usually recommend using a download manager type plugin to handle the static files. A download manager type plugin will have some features and options for hiding/protecting the static files. You can configure the file as a download item and then embed it on a protected post or page so only a member can download it.

A plugin like the following could be useful to manage the static files and handling the direct download of the static files:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-download-monitor/

[KB]

Thankyou for your help!

[Author]

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