Customising the Password Protected page

A little extra information, as I have read through the other post you highlighted and it explains that the password page isn’t really a page, but just covers up the content until you unlock it.

I have a landing page, you press a button to visit the next page – which is password protected.

There is no menu set in Appearances, the header/sidebars/footer etc are all removed from landing page and from the main content page (once password accepted). So no header/menu on either of the pages. BUT when the password form comes up, it sticks a header&menu at the top. So I don’t know where it’s getting that instruction from.

Thanks

Ok, some information below

Brilliant. Thank you for this. That has worked a treat.

I don’t know how, but I have lost the code that I had added that brought up a message when an incorrect password is attempted.

I’ve tried inserting various code that I’ve found on forum threads and the internet, but can’t get it to work. Not sure how I did it last time, or where it’s gone!

Are you able to give me code to add to create an incorrect password message, please?

I have added the following to functions.php to change the ‘please input password’ text:

add_filter( 'the_password_form', 'custom_password_form' );
function custom_password_form() {
global $post;
$label = 'pwbox-'.( empty( $post->ID ) ? rand() : $post->ID );
$o = '<form action="' . esc_url( site_url( 'wp-login.php?action=postpass', 'login_post' ) ) . '" class="post-password-form" method="post">' . __( "You can write your own text here" ) . '
<label for="' . $label . '">' . __( "Password:" ) . ' </label><input name="post_password" id="' . $label . '" type="password" size="20" /><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="' . esc_attr__( "Submit" ) . '" />
</form>
';
return $o;
}