October 05, 2023

PDF Password Protect Plugin

Protect PDF files by passwords on your WordPress Website.

Protect PDF files by passwords on your WordPress Website.
PDF Password Protect plugin offers an easy way to set passwords and control edit permissions to your PDF files.

Features

Add user password to prevent opening the PDF file.
Add owner password to disabled PDF file edit permissions:

Permissions to disable

copy: copy text from PDF file.
print: print the PDF file.
comment: add comments to PDF file.
comment – fill form: Add comments and fill forms to PDF file.

For more features

👉 Pro | Docs 👈

Set passwords automatically to uploaded PDF files.
Set passwords to bulk PDF files.
Remove passwords from PDF files.
Overwrite PDF file owner password.
Restrict PDF files from view or download
Sell WooCommerce Downloadable PDFs protected with a password for each customer.

Requirements

The plugin needs two packages to be installed on your server in order to handle complex PDF files that have forms – annotations – bookmarks and to handle some PDF files which use Compressed Cross-reference and Object Streams for data structure.

QPDF min V 9.1.1
GhostScript

How to use

Activate the plugin
Upload PDF file
Access the PDF attachment edit page from media page
You can add password to the PDF file from the Sidebar metabox “PDF password options”.