Control Access to Your Events & Content

Once you publish a event or post or page, it is visible to the public (by default).

Event Smart also offers two less public options for your post’s Content Visibility. Clicking the “Edit” link next to Visibility:

Public reveals two radio buttons:

• Public is selected by default.
• Checking Password protected reveals a text field for entering a password, that will be required to view that post. The password is limited to 20 characters.

Visibility Settings
When you’re done editing the post’s visibility, click the “OK” button. You should now see your post’s new setting, e.g., Visibility: Password Protected.

Remember: a setting change does not take effect until you click the “Publish” button (or “Update” if the post is already published.)

Finding or Changing a Password

Only an Administrator, Editor, or the post’s Author can change a post’s password or visibility setting. To do so, use the “Visibility: Edit” link again. These settings are also available using the post’s Quick Edit link in the All Posts Screen.

The Visibility “Edit” link (or “Quick Edit”) is also a good way to reveal a forgotten post password.

Password Protected Posts

Event Smart displays a password-protected post differently. It makes these changes to the post’s:

• Title– Adds the text “Protected: ” before the post Title.
• Excerpt– Instead of the post Excerpt, prints this text: “There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.”
• Content– Instead of the post Content, prints a password form with this text: “This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:”
• So, a password-protected post with a title of “My Post” would display like this: Password-protected Content

Password Protecting Many Posts and Pages (if feature is purchased)

Event Smart stores this password in a browser cookie so readers don’t have to re-enter passwords if they visit the same page multiple times. Furthermore, if multiple posts use the same password, the reader will only have to enter the password once to access every post (see caveat below).

Event Smart will only track one password at a time. Therefore, if two posts use two different passwords, entering the password for post A, then entering the password for post B means that revisiting post A (or any post which shares its password) will require the user to re-enter the password for post A.