Title: Plugin Does Work on WP Engine
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Plugin Does Work on WP Engine

 *  [Mike Price](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castroboy/)
 * (@castroboy)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-work-on-wp-engine/)
 * Hey there
 * Love this plugin. I was hoping that you would be able to remove the Note from
   your plugin that says “this plugin does not work on WP Engine’ I work at WP Engine
   and I can assure you this plugin works fine ** as long as we provide customer
   with a couple of cache exclusions.
 * We exclude this cookie: **bid_1_password_protected_auth**
 * We exclude this argument as well: password-protected
 * These ensure the plugin works without issue. Let me know if you have any questions.
   Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protected/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protected/)

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 *  [9Xpi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/9xpi/)
 * (@9xpi)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-work-on-wp-engine/#post-8239048)
 * I’ve asked WPEgnine support to exclude the cookie. The plugin works sometimes,
   however it seems very temperamental. The site is still occasionally accessible
   to people with no password!
 * For this reason I’ve had to drop this plugin unfortunately. [@castroboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castroboy/)
   any thoughts?
 *  Thread Starter [Mike Price](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castroboy/)
 * (@castroboy)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-work-on-wp-engine/#post-8239070)
 * Hey there,
 * Hmm that is odd. These particular cache exclusions should get it to bypass cache
   without issue. Double check to make sure they are also excluding not just the
   cookie but the argument “password-protected” as well to be sure.
 * Also, I would recommend playing with this on your staging environment as on WPE
   staging, there is absolutely no cache. So if you find the plugin to be temperamental
   on staging as well, then you know it could not be cache but maybe a conflicting
   plugin.
 * Hope this helps!
 * — Mike

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/password-protected/assets/icon-128x128.gif?rev=2824217)
 * [Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content](https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protected/)
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 * Last reply from: [Mike Price](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castroboy/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-work-on-wp-engine/#post-8239070)
 * Status: not resolved