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Post a Password-Protected WordPress post?

June 22, 2016 / Dave Taylor / Wordpress Help / 3 Comments

I run the blog for my church on Wordpress and I’ve got everything figured out, except I’ve been told I need to post the church roster on the blog, but keep it password protected. How can I keep the data private within WordPress? Can I have a password-protected post?

There are two ways you can post password-protected content within the context of WordPress, actually. The more straightforward approach would be to actually create a password-protected PDF document, but then the problem is that every single time anyone opens that file, they’ll have to enter the password. That’s going to become quite a pain and people will likely complain, so that’s not a great solution.

The other solution is to use the WordPress “password protected” post option, and that’s going to be a much better solution because once parishioners have downloaded the document, they can open it as many times as they want without ever having to enter another password again. Further, as new people join the congregation, they too will be able to go back to the protected post and download the document if they simply know the post password.

And the best thing? It’s easy to set up and you can link to as many documents as you want or even post information that’s not for the general public without any specific documents linked. All safely protected behind whatever password you specify.

To create a password protected WordPress post, go to WordPress and create a new post as usual. But on the right side, look for this scheduling information area:

create password protected wordpress blog post entry

The field that you want to change is “Visibility“. Click on the “Edit” adjacent to where it says “Public” and you’ll see that there are actually three options:

three visibility options, wordpress post entry page

You want to choose “Password protected“, so click on that option:

how to add a password protected wordpress wp post

Here you can see where to specify the desired password. Simply click on the text input field and type in whatever word or phrase you’d like:

wordpress password protected post, specify password

Click “OK” and when you’re ready, publish as usual.

That’s it.

Now the post on the blog will look like this:

main page display, password protected blog post, wordpress

That’s the home page. Click on it and you can go to the individual post page, as always, and here you’ll find a password entry box:

password protected secret wordpress word press wp blog post

Enter the password properly and you’re in! The post is shown as you wrote it:

password protected blog post wordpress

So there ya go. Pay attention to the fact that the title of the post will be shown to everyone, so make sure that the confidential or private information is in the body of the post, not the title!

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3 comments on “Post a Password-Protected WordPress post?”

  1. Pat Bornmann says:
    April 8, 2018 at 5:30 am

    My question is related. Some of my password protected posts say “There is no excerpt because this is a protected post” and others don’t. When I use my browser to look at the code the difference is in the line and the other has the keyword post-password-protected.

    Can you tell me the difference between post-password-required and post-password protected? Does this happen because sometimes I initially post as public and then convert to password protected?

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Dave Taylor says:
      April 9, 2018 at 8:09 am

      That’s odd. None of your password-protected posts should have an excerpt because the Facebook spider shouldn’t be able to see them.

      Reply
  2. Chinnu mariya says:
    July 3, 2016 at 8:39 pm

    Thank you for this information!

    Reply

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