How do I change Password Protected text?

  • Hi,

    When trying to access a password protected page this text is displayed.

    “This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:”

    I would like to change this text to let people know how they can obtain a password. Where do I make these changes. I don’t see it in the theme files.

    Thanks in advance for help on this!

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  • Posts like these are exactly why I love WordPress and it’s community!

    @mfields – Thanks for the help!
    I must be honest and say that I have never edited any php and was a little concerned that I would mes it all up, but I just found an editor, added the code, changed the text and it worked!
    Thankyou.

    @electric Studio – what an awesome thing to say and I totally agree! I would be lost in web development without help from numerous support forums that I have been a part of… always nice to hear that my efforts are appreciated ??

    @geoff – glad this worked for you and congrats on your first block of php code!

    Hi, I have a swedish install of WordPress and have tried finding the text to change. Iif I change the corresponding text in the PO file nothing happens ? Any help much appreciated.

    Hi everyone,

    Check out the following post. It explains how to password protect a portion of a post, which you can easily use to get rid of the “This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:” message.

    https://www.robcooper.com/wordpress/how-to-password-protect-post-page.html

    It’s a free plugin for WordPress, and basically everything between the tags [password] and [/password] are password protected. You can type what ever message you want before or after those tags.

    Hope this helps!

    -Rebecca

    Hi everyone,

    Just came across this issue today. Here’s the best solution I could find. In your post-template.php, (found in wp-includes) open it in Dreamweaver and hit control+F (find). Search for This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below. Change the phrase to whatever you’d like it to say!
    Hope this helps!

    -Shaun

    Brian

    (@wgbcworship)

    This was awesome. A quick google search and here I was to my answer. Worked like a charm. Thanks for contributing!

    Is there an easy way to add something to that “.protected-post-form” thing in the stylesheet to change the password input type from “password” to “text”? I don’t want the letters to be hidden (******) when inputting the password.

    Thanks anyone.

    You’d need to change the input from type="password to type="text. You can’t make that change via CSS,

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