WordPress password protected page: white screen after login
A customer contacted me about an issue where users couldn’t access a password protected page in WordPress. After login, they where met with just a white page. Here’s how I solved it!
Of course, everything worked as expected for me. But after a while, I figured out that users probably where using the URL www.mycustomer.com/secret-page instead of mycustomer.com/secret-page. The solution was to add a hidden input field containing the ”real” permalink.
I used the WordPress filter the_password_form and added the input field by doing a search and replace on the closing form tag.
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| <?php | |
| add_filter( 'the_password_form', function( $output ) { | |
| $input = '<input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="'.get_permalink().'"></form>'; | |
| $output = str_replace( '</form>', $input, $output ); | |
| return $output; | |
| } ); |
This fixed the problem for me. Hope it helps you too!