Passster – Password Protection (content-protector) free WordPress plugin

Protect your entire website, only single pages or posts or just areas of content within it.
Passster brings a lot of flexibility in creating password-protected areas on your website.
Area protection
Create protected areas that can be added with a simple shortcode.
The shortcode will be fully generated for you based on your configuration of your area.
Page protection
Protect entire pages with the same settings you already know from the area protection, but without even using a shortcode.
It blocks the entire page while keeping your layout intact instead of showing an ugly protection layout.
Global Protection
On each page, you can select to activate the global protection. Each visitor without the required password will be redirected to the page
as long as they are not authenticated. The Cookie option from Passster->Options is required for this.
Features
Free
- restrict areas and add them via shortcode
- restrict pages
- restrict your entire website
- use a single password
- AJAX for unlocking with caching and without a reload
- change the global styles and texts in the WordPress Customizer
- Use cookies to save encrypted passwords for longer access
Passster Pro
Passster Pro introduces several awesome features to bring protection to a whole new level.
Additionally to all free features, the pro version includes:
- use multiple passwords
- use large passwords lists with password expiration by usage and date
- use Google ReCaptcha (v2 and v3) for protection
- expire passwords from a list after one-time usage, after several usages, or by time (hours, days, weeks, months)
- modify headline, description, placeholder, buttons per shortcode
- modify headline, description, placeholder, buttons per page
- auto-unlock content per user and user role
- unlock content with encrypted links and use Bitly to shorten the entire URL (optional)
Paired with exceptional support directly from the developer, timely updates and feature integrations, and extensive documentation you can’t go wrong with Passster Pro.
Get it now on patrickposner.dev
Documentation
I regularly optimize the documentation and release extensive tutorials on how to use Passster in a multitude of use-cases.
Learn more on patrickposner.dev/docs
Support
The free support is exclusively limited to the wordpress.org support forum.
Any kind of email priority support, customization, and integration help need a valid premium license.
CODING STANDARDS MADE IN GERMANY
The plugin is coded with modern PHP and WordPress standards in mind. It’s fully OOP coded. It’s highly extendable for developers through several actions and filter hooks.
Passster keeps your website performance in mind. Every script is loaded conditionally and all input and output data is secured.
MULTI-LANGUAGE
All major texts and information can be modified from the admin area of Passster.
The plugin is fully translatable in your language. At the moment there are only en_EN and de_DE, but you can easily add your preferred language as a .po/.mo.
It’s also fully compatible with WPML and Polylang.
Author: Patrick Posner
Plugin folder: content-protector
Tags: content restriction, content-protection, cookie restriction, membership, password protection

































