Force Login is a premium feature of LoginPress. It forces users to log in before viewing the contents of your site. When you enable the option of Force Login, a user will be redirected to the login page to log in before viewing your site’s content. 

It is designed to create a membership feel to your WordPress site, making users Login to get inside the WordPress website.

Note: You can learn more about the Force Login feature to understand its working.

Suppose you want to exclude a specific page, i.e., Privacy Policy, from the Force Login, what would you do?

This knowledge base will provide you with an action Hook that will help you exclude specific pages/posts from the Force Login feature to engage and improve the user’s experience.

Make sure to read this doc till the end. Let’s get started! 

Exclude The Pages/Posts from Force Login Feature with Hook

Suppose you want to exclude the specific pages or posts, i.e., the Privacy Policy, from the LoginPress Force Login feature. For this purpose, you’ll need to update the code to your website theme's functions.php file (provided below in this documentation). It will enable users to view the Privacy Policy page without the need to log into the website/blog to see it.

To do this, go to the left sidebar of your WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to Appearance, and click the Theme File Editor option.

On the next screen, click the Theme Functions on the right-hand side. Scroll down to the bottom of the functions.php file screen, paste the code, and click the save changes.

Note: It’s recommended to use a child theme to edit the functions.php file instead of the parent theme. There are chances to lose the modified code when you update your theme. It might cause some adverse effects on your website.

Here is the code for you:

function loginpress_exclude_forcelogin_callback() { 
    return array( 'privacy-policy', '1' ); 
    // Here '1' is the ID of the post and 'privacy-policy' is slug of the page.
}
add_filter( 'loginpress_exclude_forcelogin', 'loginpress_exclude_forcelogin_callback' );

Note: Here, ‘privacy-policy’ is the slug of a post or page, and ‘1’ is the ID of the post/page. It means you can give both slugs and IDs of post/page in this comma-separated array.

To return a single value or array. You can return the slug of the post or the post-id. With the help of the loginpress_exclude_forcelogin hook, you can prevent pages/posts from Force Login features.

That’s all! We hope you now understand how to exclude posts and pages from the Force Login feature of LoginPress using the hook provided above.

If you have any doubts or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our support forum. We will be happy to help you with it.