Encryption

Absolute Press provides an article-level password gate: pages hit by a rule get their content wrapped in the PasswordGate island, and the content shows only after the correct password is entered.

Configuration

encrypt: [
  {
    match: '/guide/secret', // exact string match on the route, or RegExp.test
    passwords: ['docs-demo'],
    hint: 'optional hint text',
  },
];

• match is a page route (the extensionless clean form, including the locale prefix); matched by string equality, or by regex test (avoid the /g flag — regexes are stateful and order-sensitive)
• With multiple rules, the first hit wins
• hint shows above the password input

Mechanics

• At build time each password is hashed to sha256 hex and written into the page payload; plaintext passwords never enter the output
• The client compares the input via WebCrypto sha256; a match unlocks
• The unlocked state is remembered per route in sessionStorage (key: ap-gate:<pathname>), so no re-entry within the session
• The gate UI comes from the PasswordGate island; a wrong input gets a shake feedback

Boundaries (important)

This is a client-side password gate, not real encryption: the content ships in full with the HTML and is merely hidden by CSS, so a technical reader can read it straight from the page source. It fits "keep out casual visitors" scenarios, not genuinely confidential content — a deliberate design tradeoff. If you need real encryption, split the content out before building.

Also: pages hit by a rule leave the sitemap automatically, and string rules append their match path as a robots.txt Disallow (RegExp rules cannot be expressed as robots patterns and stay unlisted). Give protected pages frontmatter feed: false to leave RSS too, so titles and links do not leak into the feed.

Demo

This site has a real rule configured: the encryption demo page is hit by match: '/en/guide/secret', and the demo password is the docs-demo in the config above; match also accepts a RegExp form — see the site's vite.config.ts for the syntax.

For the password gate's island activation and implementation details, see islands runtime.