I recently built a very basic website for a client who owns and operates a company that provides Employee Benefits services for small to medium size companies. I originally built his site useing Wordpress in order to give him a solid CMS to manage his site himself. He recently requested a way to give each of his clients a unique login in order to access one page where he could provide them links to their specific pdf documents.
Having Wordpress to work with as a platform, I did a little research and came across this post in the Wordpress Support Forums:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/217141
After a small enhancement to the code, it ended up being exactly what I was looking for. After implementing this, my client obtained the following functionality:
This is by no means a fully functional client portal, however it does provide a very simple way to fulfill a common requirement and does not require too much overhead and maintenance.
Check it out.
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Oh drat – it stripped the php opening statements! Oh well – feel free to email me if you want this code. I may just share it on my site & post a link, if that is helpful to anyone else.
Thanks so much for this article. It was sooo helpful!
I added a few extra lines in the code to allow for page children to be visited by the user without being forbidden access.
First define the parent page by adding these 2 lines:
$parent_title = strtolower(get_the_title($post->post_parent));
$theparent = str_replace(‘ ‘, ”, $parent_title);
Next, in your if statement, add another or statement that allows a user access to the page if they are logged in and have the parent page username:
|| is_user_logged_in() && $username==$parent_title
In your clientpagetemplate.php page (whatever it’s name is!) The code is placed like this (These are not complete php statements, it’s just to help show location of new code.):
user_login );
$parent_title = strtolower(get_the_title($post->post_parent));
$theparent = str_replace(‘ ‘, ”, $parent_title);
?>
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Best wishes!
full code posted on: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/217141
you mind sharing how you set up your parent client page as a redirect page as you mentioned in post 217141 on wordpress? i see the need to do this, so you don’t have to set up a redirect each time you add a client. any help is appreciated.