{"id":8499,"date":"2019-10-21T07:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T07:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/?p=8499"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:19:23","slug":"how-to-protect-wordpress-page-using-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-protect-wordpress-page-using-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Protect WordPress Page using Password?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Watch this video that provides steps to protect WordPress Page using password<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cIUOKMUTW7I\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<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 the<strong> publish<\/strong> button<\/p>\n<p>6. After clicking on the 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.<br \/>\n(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><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n      \"@context\": \"http:\/\/schema.org\/\",\n      \"@type\": \"VideoObject\",\n      \"name\": \"How to Protect WordPress Page Using Password? | MilesWeb\",\n      \"duration\": \"P2M27S\",\n      \"uploadDate\": \"2020-03-15\",\n      \"thumbnailUrl\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cIUOKMUTW7I\/default.jpg\",\n      \"description\": \"If you want to restrict visitors to access a specific post, you can consider enabling password protection. Visitors with the password can read the post. 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