Multisite authorization error 401

Look carefully at your .htaccess and apache configuration, Your server is intercepting the request. Unless I’m mistaken, I really don’t think this is a WP problem. You might try ServerFault.com and/or your host provider for this one. You also might want to think about how subdomain are mapped to your site. Chances are, if I … Read more

Password Protected Page + Showing Different Page If Not Authenticated/Authorized

As ialocin mentioned some requirements will require extra customizations. I can create a number of passwords to access the page You would create user accounts. Passwords don’t exist without users. An expiration date can be set for each password This isn’t implemented in wordpress and requires the most work. You could probably store a date … Read more

Users are required to login to my site. How define user.member boolean, its permissions, and conditionally display/handle behavior based on it

To store user–specific information WordPress has a user meta, pretty much identical to post meta (also known as custom fields). See get_user_meta() and related functions. Unfortunately WP doesn’t provide any interface or interface helpers for it. You would have to implement that yourself, probably hooking into user profile screen.