Password on a Kadence Archive page

[ianzmail]

ianzmail

August 11, 2025 at 1:30 pm

Hi, I have a relatively simple ACF/Kadence-pro based website that has three custom post types. The custom post types are Photo, Face and Editor. Each custom post type has its own archive page and its own single page as per normal. The archive pages are made with Kadence Template Elements and the QueryLoop(adv) block.

My Primary menu has four items being Home, Photos, Editors and Faces with the menu items being url links to the archive pages.

The behaviour I want is for the general public to be freely able to access the Photo archive and via to the Photo single pages, but only my ‘Editors’ to be able to access the ‘Editor’ and ‘Faces’ archive and aingle pages.

My plan was to create passwords for the Editors and Faces archive pages, either using the WP visibility settings or the Passster plugin but both of these methods appear to be unavailable to me because I do not actually have an editable ‘Archive Page’ as such. All I have access to is the Kadence Template Element where the Archive is built and obviously that is a Template, not an actual page.

Please note that, at this time, I do not have ‘users’ implemented in any form, basically because I do not know how to do that and was trying to avoid the added complexity. But I am open to doing that if it is the only way to achieve restrictions on who accesses what.

So my questions are:
1. Is there an ‘Archive Page’ somewhere that I can edit the ‘Visibility settings’ for and possibly apply Passster settings to?
2. Is there another way to implement a password gateway to my Archive pages?

Thanks in advance for any help or comments.