Templates and Shortcode

The login form shortcode

[bplock_login_form] renders the plugin’s tabbed login and register form. The Register tab appears only when WordPress registration is enabled. Use it anywhere a shortcode runs, including inside the Custom Content editor on the Protection Rules tab.

[bplock_login_form]

Overriding templates in your theme

The plugin looks for its front-end templates in your theme before falling back to the bundled copies. Copy any of these files from public/templates/ in the plugin into a bp-lock/ folder in your theme (or child theme) and edit your copy:

• bplock-locked-content-template.php - the full locked page shown to logged-out visitors.
• bplock-login-form.php - the login form fields.
• bplock-register-form.php - the register form fields.

Search order:

1. wp-content/themes/<child-theme>/bp-lock/<file>
2. wp-content/themes/<theme>/bp-lock/<file>
3. wp-content/plugins/bp-lock/public/templates/<file>

You can also change the located template path with the bplock_locate_template and bplock_locked_content_template filters (see Hooks and Filters).

Settings storage

All settings are stored in a single serialized option, bplock_general_settings, using the WordPress Options API. There are no custom database tables. Key sub-keys:

Key	Meaning
bplock-complete-site	on when Full Protection is enabled.
bplock-whitelist-urls	Whitelist textarea (full mode).
locked-urls	Protected URLs textarea (partial mode).
bp-components	Array of protected BuddyPress component slugs.
lr-form	Protection method: plugin_form, custom_form, or page_redirect.
custom_form_content	Custom content for the custom_form method.
locked_content	Restriction message for the plugin_form method.
logout_redirect_page	Page ID for the page_redirect method.

A few legacy standalone options (bp-components, bplock-pages) are read for backward compatibility and migrated into bplock_general_settings on upgrade.