Need to protect a custom post type

Hi Mary-Ellen,

Not sure to have completely understood your situation. Anyway, I can tell you some advices :

– Direct links to files (eg https://staging.f-squaredinvestments.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/FSquared_StyleSlide_032114-5.pdf) can’t be protected by P5 plugin. The plugin can only protect posts, pages, or custom posts

– For custom posts to be protected, be sure that your theme includes this function :

if ( post_password_required() ) {
    [... here, your protected content ...]
}

Hi Cyril,
thanks for getting back to me so soon. Sorry I was unclear.
Here is the page that the custom post type is displayed on:
https://staging.f-squaredinvestments.com/type/product-materials/
if you click the title in the box that is displayed the result is a pdf download. But the box is a custom post type that has a link to the pdf but the link is not displayed the pdf itself is.
I hope this is more clear.
Thanks

Mary-Ellen,

To protect the download link, please adjust the concerned template file :

if ( post_password_required() ) {
    [here, the link to your PDF]
} else {
    // Display password form
    echo get_the_password_form();
}

I tried a couple of things with the above code and could not get it to work.
here is the code that I have to work with:

<div class=”single-download”>
<? $url = get_field(‘resource_external_url’); ?>
<?php $dl = get_field(‘resource_download’);

if ($dl || $url) : ?>
<span>” target=”_blank”>Download</span>
<? endif; ?>

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks so much.
Mary-Ellen

Try something like this :

<div class="single-download">
    <php
    $url = get_field('resource_external_url');
    $dl = get_field('resource_download');
    if ($dl || $url) :
        if ( post_password_required() ) {
            // Display password form
            echo get_the_password_form();
        } else {
            // [here, the link to your PDF]
            ?><a href="<?php $your_link_here ?>" target="_blank">Download</a><?php
        }
    endif; ?>
</div>

Thanks for your help.