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Can I password protect individual blog posts with members app?

Hello,

I am creating a blog with perch, which is going awesome so far, but I would like to have the ability to make some posts accessible to members only. Can this be achieved using the members app? If so, how would I go about this?
Mark Fenton

Mark Fenton 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Yes, I think that's probably possible!

You'd need to add a field to your post.html template:

<perch:blog id="members_only" type="checkbox" value="1" label="Members only post" />

and then create a template for using to display posts, something like post_with_members_check.html or whatever.

<perch:if exists="members_only">
    <perch:member logged-in="true"> 
        <perch:template path="blog/post.html" />
    <perch:else:member />
        <p>You must be logged in to read this post.</p>
    </perch:member>
</perch:if>

<perch:if not-exists="members_only">
    <perch:template path="blog/post.html" />
</perch:if>

I think that should work, off the top of my head. Let me know if you hit problems and we'll go from there.
Mark Fenton

Mark Fenton 0 points

5 years ago

Thank you so much for that Drew, I'll give it a go and let you know if I get stuck.