WPC Advanced Password Protect for WooCommerce GPL v1.0.8

WPC Advanced Password Protect for WooCommerce GPL Overview

WPC Advanced Password Protect provides ultimate protections for your online stores with sophisticated accessibility rules to restrict visitors from accessing the shop or certain product categories, tags, brands, collections, types, attributes, etc. It’s the best solution for on-site security and membership management in online businesses.

The basic feature of WooCommerce for password protected products is merely insufficient for large stores with a massive number of products. Remarkably, WPC Advanced Password Protect offers password protection for products in bulk with more highly improved features for configuring the password authentication and password forms. The Premium version excels in that it provides the protection by user role and by user as well. Combining with date-time conditions and other password expiry settings, store managers can easily set up access for multiple products or product listings, multiple users with different roles or even multiple passwords for the same source of subjects.

Furthermore, there are features for preventing illegal attempts of probing the password and keeping any potentially harmful scammers out of your site. Password authentication will expire after the designated time to make sure no unauthorized users can sneak in the site.

Advantages & benefits:

• Storewide or selected products protection
• Protect by password, user and/or user role (Premium)
• Restrict password probing, scammers
• Suitable for sites with multiple roles: wholesale, members only, …

WPC Advanced Password Protect Key features

• Manage and preview all rules from the same page
• 10+ sources for storewide or partial protection of products
• Complex date & time conditions for each rule to be activated
• Management: name, password form’s title & message for each rule
• Multiple objects can be added for the same source
• Multiple passwords allowed for the same subject with different date/time
• Duplicate/remove, collapse/expand & drag-drop to rearrange the order
• Force all protected products to become unpurchasable
• Password authentication expiry time: how long the password will be required again
• Limit the number of unsuccessful login attempts
• Customizable text boxes for incorrect password & maximum attempt alerts
• Customizable universal password form texts for all rules
• Premium: Advanced protection by user role & by user
• Premium: 1-year Premium support & lifetime plugin updates
• Compatible with WPC Smart Quick View/Wishlist/Compare
• Compatible with common WordPress themes and WooCommerce add-ons

Ultimate Protection for Your Store

This is indeed a must-have plugin since it can provide store-wide protection or just specific parts of your online store. Store owners can protect not only product categories, but for a wide range of product listings using multiple sources below:

• All products – storewide
• Selected products
• Types: for example “simple”, “variable”, “woosb”, “woosg”, “composite”
• Brands (using WPC Brands for WooCommerce plugin)
• Collections (using WPC Smart Product Collection for WooCommerce plugin)
• Tags
• Categories
• Product visibility (exclude-from-search, exclude-from-catalog, etc.)
• Product shipping classes
• Product attributes

After choosing a source, users can even add several tags or categories, brands or collections, and so on, to be the applicable subjects of the rule. Combining with date & time conditions, it’s possible to define the rule in the most sophisticated way about which, when and how the protection becomes effective.

Three protection methods include:

1. password(s)
2. user role(s) (Premium only)
3. user(s) (Premium only)

These methods will restrict access to people who enter the correct password or login to the authorized user or account under the allowed role on site. Multiple passwords, users and/or user roles can be specified in each box of a single rule.
When someone can successfully prove their identity with one of the aforementioned methods, they will stay unlocked until logging out or the password authentication expires. This duration is configurable in the plugin settings.

With some special product listings from external plugins such as product table/grid/loop, the rules activated for protected products might still be broken so forcing unpurchasable is a useful additional step to prevent customers from purchasing them.

Practical Cases

In order to restrict access from unidentified visitors, potentially dangerous scammers and protect the membership rights, let’s preview some practical cases when WPC Advanced Password Protect will save your day:

• Make products with the “new” tag available to “Shop manager” role before the launch date of 30 March, 2024
• Put 3 categories: hoodies, hats, and sneakers in protection before 10 AM and after 10 PM on all even dates
• User A, B and people with the role “Subscribers” can access to brand A, B, C on the weekends
• Only people who have the password can access and purchase items in the newly arrived collections
• Custom design is shared for a client using password, whose account is also whitelisted on the site

In order to check the settings and test everything out, users can use our free plugin WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce to switch between roles and accounts easily without the need to acquire passwords.