How to Set Up Password Protected Pages in Your ChurchSpring Website
Your church website is a hub of information for your church members... but sometimes that information may only apply to specific people.
This is when you need to create a password-protected page!
- Music team practice schedules
- Church budget info
- Nursery worker schedules
- Order of service and upcoming special music
- Ministry leadership information
All of these areas contain information that not everyone needs access to. When you follow the steps below, you will be able to create a new password-protected page, or even take an existing page and add password protection to that page on your ChurchSpring website.
STEP 1: Log in with your Admin credentials
STEP 2: Create the page that you want to be password protected, or click on a current page that you want to make password protected.
STEP 3: Once you are on your selected page, under the header image page title you will see the "Page Settings" button. Hover your cursor over the "Page Settings" and click on the button.
STEP 4: The Page Settings window will open, and you will see the "Security" option on the right. It is here that you will lock down this specific page with a password. Toggle on the "on/off" switch and create your desired password. Be sure to click "Save." If you ever decide that it should be a public page, just toggle the switch to "off" to unlock it.
NOTE: After you set up a password, the system will add a lock icon above the page title to indicate that the page is now protected by a password.
VISITOR VIEW
When visitors browse your site and click on a page that's password-protected, they will see a window open requesting a password before they are allowed access to that page. To enter the page, they must first type the password and click the "Submit" button.
Please note that this password does not allow members to log in to the website, but rather just to view that specific page.
BEST WEBSITE PRACTICES
Having a password-protected page located on the Main Navigation bar or the Sub-Navigation bar may be off-setting to someone who is a visitor to your site. For demo purposes, we kept the above explanation as simple as possible and used the sub-nav area of a website. But you may want to consider placing any password-protected pages into a Members Only nested page... then adding all of your department schedules (etc.) as individual nested pages within the Members Only page.