11-05-2018, 02:05 AM
I don't think you can protect the wordpress pages directly. You can use userspice to interact with the wordpress database, but as you said, since the php files aren't visible, you can't use it for access control. TBH, I've used several plugins to try to do that with wordpress and they all worked like garbage. Any time I needed a full CMS that needed userspice-type access control, I had to use joomla...which I didn't love, but it worked. Sorry. I wish I had better news.