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How to Password Protect Any WordPress Page 2020

password protect a WordPress page

Need to password protect a WordPress page? You don’t need a plugin for that purpose. WordPress has it’s own password protection feature, and it only takes a minute to use.

You can password protect a WordPress page so the general public cannot see it. This will prevent most humans from being able to easily find it or view its content.

However, this method does not prevent the page from being indexed by search engines, and it does not encrypt the page’s content. Therefore, you should not use this method for page content that you absolutely must keep private.

How to Password Protect a WordPress Page

As an example, we will use our WordPress theme “Tumli“. Here’s how to add a password to any page in WordPress, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to WordPress as the administrator.
  2. Under Dashboard, click Posts, and then click Add New.
  3. Write your post.
  4. Under Publish, next to Visibility, click Edit and the post visibility options appear.
  5. Click Password protected.
  6. In the Password text box, type a password.
  7. Click OK, and then click Publish. Now when visitors go to the page’s URL, they must type the correct password to view its content.

Navigate to the WordPress editor for the post or page you want to make private. Once in the edit screen, locate the Status & Visibility section in the right sidebar:
protect wordpress page status


Under Publish, next to Visibility, click Edit and the post visibility options appear:
protect wordpress page public


Click Password protected and in the Password text box, type a password.
protect wordpress page


This is how password form look in the “Tumli” theme:
protect wordpress page demo


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