How to add extra security to your Member Pages in WordPress

Why you should add extra security to your Member Pages

There are two main reasons to add extra security to your Member Pages:

1. If some tech-savvy person wants to get around your page protection without becoming a member, they can disable Javascript in their browser which will prevent the page protection popup from appearing. However, if your page has extra security, the person will simply be looking at a white page which obviously isn't super useful for them. :)
2. Most people don't want their Member Pages indexed by search engines (like Google). The best way to prevent indexing is by adding extra security to your Member Page which automatically sends a strong "do not index" signal to Google and other search engines. This does not necessarily work 100% of the time since search engines can choose to ignore the signal, but that very rarely happens.

When a visitor goes to a page with extra security, they will still see its contents for a second or so before the page protection popup appears.

Members of yours with access to the Member Page will not see it whited out.

How to add extra security to your Member Pages

1. Log into your WordPress admin site and go to Settings > MemberSpace in the menu on the left.
   
2. Under Configuration, the Enable Extra Security box should be checked by default. If you previously disabled this option, check the box > click Save Settings.    This will automatically add extra security to all Member Pages on your website.