How to Password Protect Pages

Password protect pages is a task required in web design from time to time.

Do you have a page or a blog post that you want to keep private and only allow certain people to have access to?

That’s when it’s time to password protect the pages! So how do we password protect pages on WordPress?

WordPress is really cool because it has a password protection function built in for both pages and for blog posts. So for a page, what to do is create a new page, add the title and the contents and then in the publishing box on the right hand side is a big publish button.

Right above the publish button are several options such as: Status, Visibility and Publish Immediately. The visibility option is what we’re going to select and change it from public to password-protected. It’s going to ask what the password to set is, and make sure that you set it to something that you’re able to share with your clients and let them know that it is cap sensitive.

Once that is done, click the publish button and the website is now live with that page is password protected. Now you can send that link for that specific page out to the customer and when the customer arrives they’ll be able to put in the password and access the content on that specific page.

Anybody else who visits the page will not be able to access the content. This is super helpful for order catalogs that only certain clients should have access too, pages that have sensitive content such as political pages, and other similar use cases.

Have a question about how to get password protection to work on your website? Drop me a line on my contact page and we can work through the details!

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Written by: Jophiel Silvestrone

Jophiel Silvestrone has written 326 posts in the Tech Blog.

Jophiel grew up on a ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana near Chico Hot Springs. Working on the ranch instilled work ethic and self motivation. Filled with this drive, Jophiel started mowing the local school's yards twice a month throughout the summers, at the age of 12. He moved to Billings in 2004, where he has been deeply involved in the local business community ever since. A serial entrepreneur, Jophiel has ran multiple businesses in our local community. The first business, a janitorial and carpet cleaning company, founded in 2005, has employed over 50 locals. Moving on to the media industry, Jophiel and several partners founded Green Directory Montana in the spring of 2007. Green Directory's sustainability ranking software awarded points based on sustainable or "green" actions. These points counted towards a business's total "Green Score," which in turn ranked them against other businesses in their category and throughout the entire site. It also featured a limited edition print version distributed annually. A business acquisition allowed Jophiel to focus on new projects, and a few close business colleagues and Jophiel started Rocky Mountain Mr. & Ms. Magazine, a lifestyle publication for men and women in the Magic City. After a year and a half at the helm of RM3 Magazine, the business was purchased. He now runs a web development company SkyPoint Studios and fathers his son Jaoquin, who plays football, basketball, soccer, and is learning snowboarding from his dad. Recently, has expanded to locations in Havasu, Arizona & Vegas. SkyPoint Studios is a market leader in both Billings & Havasu and Jophiel is working on building that same level of market dominance in Vegas. Specialties: Extensive experience in online and offline business. Especially savvy at WordPress, and operate several sites, one example is the blog: skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com/tech-blog. Check out skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com for the latest projects from SkyPoint Studios.