{"id":6707,"date":"2019-10-21T07:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T07:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2024-04-24T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T08:49:23","slug":"how-to-protect-wordpress-page-using-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-protect-wordpress-page-using-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Protect WordPress Page using password?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article guides you on how to password protect the WordPress page.<\/p>\n<h3>Why password protect is required for a WordPress page?<\/h3>\n<p>You can protect a WordPress page with a password so that the general public will not be able to view it.<\/p>\n<p>This helps in preventing most humans from being able to easily find or view your site&#8217;s content. This is mostly carried out to protect some of the sensitive information present on a site&#8217;s page.<\/p>\n<p>This method does not limit the page from being indexed by search engines, and also, it does not encrypt the page&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<h3># Steps to protect WordPress page using password :<\/h3>\n<p>1. Login to <strong>WordPress<\/strong> as an <strong>admin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>2. You get this WordPress dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>3. On the left side, go to posts and click on <strong>Add new<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>4. Now write a post.<\/p>\n<p>5. Then click on <strong>publish<\/strong> button<\/p>\n<p>6. After clicking on publish button, under <strong>visibility<\/strong> you get 3 options <strong>public,<\/strong> <strong>private<\/strong>, and <strong>password protected<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>7. Select the third option which says<strong> Password protected<\/strong> and in the text box type the password.(Make sure the password you enter is alphanumeric)<\/p>\n<p>8. Click on the <strong>publish<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>9. Click on view post, now you can see, this content is password protected.<\/p>\n<p>10. Type your password and click on the <strong>enter<\/strong> button. As you can see the content gets displayed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/learn-to-add-captcha-to-a-wordpress-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn to add CAPTCHA to a WordPress site<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/password-protect-directories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Password protect directories<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/learn-to-remove-password-protection-from-the-site-statistics-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn to remove password protection from the site statistics page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article guides you on how to password protect the WordPress page. Why password protect is required for a WordPress page? You can protect a WordPress page with a password so that the general public will not be able to view it. 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