How to Protect an Article with a Password in Joomla?

Sometimes you have an important page that you don't want every visitor to your site to have access to. The first thing that comes to mind is to make this page accessible only to members, but then you realize that you don't want all your members to have access to this page. Just a few members. So you need an extra level of security on that page. That extra level of security means protecting the site with a "password".

This extension will help you to password protect a Joomla article.

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* This extension works for Joomla 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Installation & Usage

1) Login to Joomla Admin > Go to installation page > Install downloaded package.

2) Go to the Manage Plugins section > Content - Article Password > Enable it.

3) Go to Content Management > Select the article you want to protect > Switch to the "Password" tab to set a password. There are 3 parameters:

  • Password
  • Password hint
  • Re-enter the password when: User session expires | Each time

4) Save the post to complete the password setup process.

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    Jennifer Stephenson
    Jennifer Stephenson · 3 days ago
    Is there any way to modify the language on the page? The text is "Press correct password to read post". This is confusing as there is nothing to press. It should read type or enter and there should be a clear box to fill in the password, which is not easily viewable or eminently clear at a glance. And unlock should say something like submit or click here. I'm guessing this is in the code, and not editable, but just checking, thank you!
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      David
      David · 3 days ago
      @Jennifer Stephenson You can edit/replace these phrases from the language pack of this plugin: administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_content_password.ini

      About the password input box, it may be affected by the template you are using. If possible, please give me the URL of the article where you put this plugin, I will make it more prominent🙂
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    David
    David · 8 months ago
    Release Article Password Plugin v1.2.2 : Fixed cache issue.
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    David
    David · 10 months ago
    Release Article Password Plugin v1.1.9.
    # Fixed bugs on some templates.
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    David
    David · 2 years ago
    Release Article Password Plugin v1.1.5: Support custom fields & Joomla 5.
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Jennifer Stephenson How to Protect an Article with a Password in Joomla?
Is there any way to modify the language on the page? The text is "Press correct password to read post". This is confusing as there is nothing to press. It should read type or enter and there should be a clear box to fill in the password, which is not easily viewable or eminently clear at a glance. And unlock should say something like submit or click here. I'm guessing this is in the code, and not editable, but just checking, thank you!
Chad Criswell How to upload and attach files to Joomla articles
I am confused on something and hoping you can clarify things. Please see this video for a visual example: https://screenrec.com/share/Xbw03sSjhc

I migrated about a thousand items with attachments from K2 using your tool and attachments plugin. I initially did this on a test account. Everything worked fine over there. The migrated article attachments worked fine. Then I backed it all up and moved it to my live domain. Now none of the attachments load. All I get is Exception File Not Found and I can't figure out where to look. Turning on error reporting and debug don't tell me anything. I am guessing the old files were not moved during the migration correct? Or how does that all work? I still have all the original folders in the original places as far as I can tell.
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On JED it says that this extension got updatedSep 24 2025, but on this site and the JED it's still on version 1.2.7 that is listed as last updated2023-05-13. When will it be updated for download as a new version?