Codeinwp / Codeinwp/wp-maintenance-mode
Allow visitors to see the website based on password
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- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 163
- Forks
- 82
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
What problem does this address?
A user of the plugin would like to invite some people to see their in-progress building website by sharing a password with them. The advantage of this feature is that a username won't be required for each visitor, it will work like password-protected pages in WordPress.
Right now, with the maintenance mode enabled, only users with a created account can see the website based on their user-role and what's set in the LightStarts options.
What is your proposed solution?
Add an option to enable a password field on the front end where people with the password can view the website like the maintenance mode is disabled, but without accessing the Dashboard.
Requested here: https://secure.helpscout.net/conversation/2341483618/383158?folderId=931544
Will this feature require documentation? (Optional)
Yes, it requires documentation.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the existing maintenance-mode access checks and the LightStarts options that control user-role access. Define how a front-end password grants website viewing without Dashboard access, then document the new option and its behavior; no specific files or tests are named in the issue.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- authentication, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100