How to protect WordPress Page using password?

This article guides you on how to password protect the WordPress page.

Why password protect is required for a WordPress page?

A WordPress page can be password-protected to prevent access by members of the public.

This aids in keeping the majority of people from finding or viewing the material on your website with ease. This is mostly done to safeguard some of the sensitive data that is shown on a website’s page.

This approach does not encrypt the content of the page or prevent search engines from indexing it.

# Steps to protect WordPress page using password :

1. Login to WordPress as an admin.

2. You get the WordPress dashboard.

3. On the left side, go to posts and click on Add new button.

4. Now write a post.

5. Then click on the publish button

6. After clicking on publish button, under visibility you get 3 options public, private, and password protected.

7. Select the third option which says Password-protected and in the text box type the password.
(Make sure the password you enter is alphanumeric)

8. Click on the publish button.

9. Click on view post, now you can see, this content is password protected.

10. Type your password and click on the enter button. As you can see the content gets displayed.