Customer login to download files?

In your hosting control panel you can set a username/password for a directory or file that will display a login window. This would bypass the wordpress shenanigans. How to add one depends on the server type, linux or windows, but it is a basic control panel function and is easy to do.

Good luck. That's all I can say. I looked for something like this a couple years back and there was nothing. It was hard to even find a full tutorial on building something like that as a standalone. I managed to hack something together (mostly cut and paste with some fill in the blank) from a combination of multiple tutorials but it wasn't pretty (since I didn't know PHP at the time). Honestly, your best bet is to do some of the PHP tutorials and build your own standalone area. If you'd like, once I get home from work, I can check if I still have the files. I can't guarantee they're secure, because at the time I didn't know PHP, but they did work.

Wouldn't be easy if you create a page with your content and password protect it and give your sales team the password. To password protect a page , when you edit/create page on right in publish box you will see visibility click edit and set password. This way they won't have to login they just need the password and url to view and they won't know its a wordpress.

Hope this helps

What about just using wp-login which will default to user if allowing registering to the public to comment on post. If you are doing this you may want to look at the user role capabilities in the codex to display based on a role displaying info for page publish box to private

I decided to setup a a wordpress style login but without secure system. It's only to files.

Easiest way would be to use User Role Editor. If it's the plugin I'm thinking of, it allows creation of user roles so you could have customer and rep as two new roles.

Then, just put a conditional somewhere to hide the menu item if user is customer, show if rep Again, another conditional for failsafe on the root page of the new section saying is customer, redirect back to home with a message, if rep, show content.

You could take it a step further and put a checkbox in your admin area so that when creating a new post, you can check if it's only for reps. Then you can compare this data with user role and if it's true, show, if false, redirect with message. If you wanted absolute control but it's rather unnecessary.