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How To Password Protect a Page in WordPress

by | Aug 19, 2013

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Word Press provides an out-of-the-box feature for password protecting certain pages.

Below is the step-by-step guide to password protect a page/post in WordPress.

Step 1 – Log in to word press admin

Log in to www.yourdomainname.com.au/wp-admin

Step 2 – Navigate to post/page section

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Step 3 – Add new page or edit existing page

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Step 4 – Set visibility status to password protected

Find the Visibility label under the Publish metabox. Click edit and change visibility to password protected. Enter new password and click OK. Publish / Update the page.

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Step 5 – Test the page.

Click on view page. If everything went well, your page will ask you to enter a password. Enter the password which you selected and see if it gives you access.

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Password protecting a page is really easy in WordPress.

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Oliver Leeb is the founder and Managing Director of 3am Ideas. He holds a Master of Marketing from Curtin University in Perth, and since founding the agency in 2014 he has helped small and medium businesses across Australia turn their marketing into measurable, trackable results. He is also the founder of Facilit8.

Oliver is relentlessly data-driven, and a little evangelical about it. His mission is to show business owners the power already sitting in their own data, and how to use it to make smarter, calmer marketing decisions, without the hype that clutters so much of the industry.

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