WordPress: Change the default text for password protected pages

13 Mar
2010

Edit functions.php of your template and paste in this

// Password Protected Page Message
function custom_password_form($form) {
$subs = array(
'#<p>This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:</p>#' => '<p>Hopefully this works.</p>',
'#<form(.*?)>#' => '<form$1 class="passwordform">',
'#<input(.*?)type="password"(.*?) />#' => '<input$1type="password"$2 class="text" />',
'#<input(.*?)type="submit"(.*?) />#' => '<input$1type="submit"$2 class="button" />'
);

echo preg_replace(array_keys($subs), array_values($subs), $form);
}

add_filter('the_password_form', 'custom_password_form');