password protected – change message

Well no thanks to you people ?? I managed to find the solution myself. There is no theme file that needs editing, so you need to add a filter to your functions.php file in the theme directory. Use this

function replace_the_password_form($content) {
  global $post;
  // if there's a password and it doesn't match the cookie
  if ( !empty($post->post_password) && stripslashes($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_'.COOKIEHASH])!=$post->post_password ) {
    $output = '

    <form action="'.get_option('siteurl').'/wp-pass.php" method="post">
      '.__("This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:").'

        <label for="post_password">Passwort:</label>
        <input name="post_password" class="input" type="password" size="20" />
        <input type="submit" name="Submit" class="button" value="'.__("Submit").'" />

    </form>

    ';
    return $output;
  }
  else return $content;
}
add_filter('the_content','replace_the_password_form');

Obviously, now you can edit it to your liking.

I found this info on this site:
https://simbo.de/blog/wordpress/wordpress-tipp-passwort-formular-bei-geschuetzten-beitraegen-anpassen/

awesome, thanks for the help!

Mores you rock!

This is good stuff… you’re the man for posting it…

NO! You are two men!

hehe…

thanks a bunch

exactly what I need right now!
Thanks a lot Mores ??

There is no theme file that needs editing, so you need to add a filter to your functions.php file in the theme directory

Well, yes there is ??

You will find the form in /wp-includes/post-template.php it looks like this:

function get_the_password_form() {
	global $post;
	$label = 'pwbox-'.(empty($post->ID) ? rand() : $post->ID);
	$output = '<form action="' . get_option('siteurl') . '/wp-pass.php" method="post">
	' . __("This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:") . '

	<label for="' . $label . '">' . __("Password:") . ' <input name="post_password" id="' . $label . '" type="password" size="20" /></label> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="' . __("Submit") . '" />

	</form>
	';
	return apply_filters('the_password_form', $output);
}

Solution found here: https://www.dagondesign.com/articles/show-the-intro-to-password-protected-posts-in-wordpress/