p5 : Plenty of Perishable Passwords for Protected Posts

常见问题

What happens when a password expire ?

The password is deleted from the database, so it is no longer attached to your post.

Expired passwords aren’t deleted. Why ?

The plugin use WordPress cron feature to periodically delete expired passwords. Please make sure this functionnality is working on your WordPress installation. WP-Cron Control plugin is a good way to see what’s happening with the cron.

My post is no longer protected. Why ?

In WordPress, a post is protected as long as it has a password attached. When all the post passwords have expired, the post is no longer protected. It’s as simple as that.
To keep a post protected, assign it a password without an expiration date.

Are my already defined passwords conserved after installation ?

Yes.

Are my password-protected posts still protected when I deactivate/uninstall p5 plugin ?

Yes. After deactivation or uninstallation, your posts are still protected with the first password that was attached to each of them.

My password is supposed to be expired, but I still can see my protected content

Be sure that the timezone is well defined in /wp-admin/options-general.php

Does this plugin provide some hooks ?

Yes. Actually these actions are defined :

1. p5_insert_password, called after insertion of a new password
2. p5_update_password, called after password update
3. p5_save_password, called indifferently after p5_insert_password or p5_update_password.
4. p5_delete_password, after a password has been deleted