StudioPress

Forum navigation

Are You Using The WordPress Block Editor?

Genesis now offers plugins that help you build better sites faster with the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg). Try the feature-rich free versions of each plugin for yourself!

Genesis Blocks Genesis Custom Blocks

Deny Folder Access to Protect PDF Downloadables

Welcome!

These forums are for general discussion on WordPress and Genesis. Official support for StudioPress themes is offered exclusively at My StudioPress. Responses in this forum are not guaranteed. Please note that this forum will require a new username, separate from the one used for My.StudioPress.

Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › General Discussion › Deny Folder Access to Protect PDF Downloadables

This topic is: not resolved
Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • May 8, 2013 at 11:41 am #39925
    PDonaldson
    Participant

    Hi,

    I'm using the Education theme and would like to protect my downloads folder. I have PDF downloads that I'm putting behind registration forms using Unbounce. I need to insure that any files in that directory cannot be accessed.

    What's the best plugin to achieve that?

    Thanks!

    May 8, 2013 at 5:37 pm #39981
    Bill Murray
    Member

    Are you sure those are registration forms? Unbounce has tools for you to collect contact info, but that's not a registration form at least as that term is used in a WP context.

    If you want to protect content, you'll need a real registration form, and visitors will have to meet your registration requirements to get access to the content. Examples of plugins that do this are Premise and S2. That might be more work than a typical visitor to an Unbounce landing page will put up with, so you may find your conversions dropping to very low levels.

    You might want to consider putting a link to the PDF in your auto-response email. If you want to close the door a little more, you could put the content on Amazon S3, and use an expiring link; of course, that runs the risk that a legitimate contact can't get access to content when they need/want it, producing an angry potential customer.

    Short of requiring an Unbounce visitor to register on your WP site and using a content protection plugin, there's no way to make the content available on Unbounce but protected from someone opening the PDF via its URL.

    Web: https://wpperform.com or Twitter: @wpperform

    We do managed WordPress hosting.

    May 8, 2013 at 6:24 pm #39990
    PDonaldson
    Participant

    So, the content protection plugin would have to work with one of the WP registration form plugins?

    What's the suggested content protection plugin?

    Thanks.

    May 8, 2013 at 8:49 pm #40015
    Bill Murray
    Member

    To clarify, is Unbounce registering users on your site (ie, they show up in your WP dashboard as users) or is Unbounce collecting data in a form similar to a subscription form? As far as I know, it's the latter, so the users aren't registered on your WP site.

    Examples of content protection plugins are Premise and S2. There are many others. You might also be able to use a plugin like Easy Digital Downloads for this.

    The problem that you'll run into is that any effort to perfectly secure the PDF will make it harder for visitors to your Unbounce page to get it. If you make it too hard, you're hurting the effectiveness of your landing page.

    Web: https://wpperform.com or Twitter: @wpperform

    We do managed WordPress hosting.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • The forum ‘General Discussion’ is closed to new topics and replies.