Page Password Protection has Stopped Working

mountaincoward · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 3:06 am
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I had one of my pages password protected and for the last few days it has been working fine. All of a sudden tonight I found that, although it still shows as a password protected page, it no longer asks for a password. At first I thought it was possibly just not asking me as I was logged in and am the administrator, so I logged off and tried to access the page and found I got straight in without the password.

Any ideas why please?

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
raincoaster · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 3:48 am
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Your computer probably stored the cookie, and the computer noticed it. This is a frequent happening, so try the full Cookie dance: Log out, clear your browser cache and cookies, and fully restart the computer. See if it asks for a password then.
raincoaster · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 3:48 am
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Yes, this page is password protected. I can confirm that.

http://mountaincowardadventures.wordpress.com/walk-plans/
mountaincoward · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 4:02 am
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Okay thanks – I’ll have to try that tomorrow as I can’t log off as I’m at work right now. I tried just clearing out the caches and closing Internet Explorer but am still having the same problem so I’ll have to hope the reboot clears it at hometime.
raincoaster · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 5:00 am
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It all depends on the settings on your computer.
mountaincoward · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 5:08 am
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Knowing this place, they’ll be pretty weird! I can’t get to all of them so I’ll either try at home when I get back or I’ll just try again tomorrow.

Thanks for checking my page is still password protected though:-)
mystiqki · Member · Mar 12, 2011 at 5:17 pm
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Hi, Can you tell me how to password protect a page? I’m finding it difficult to find the info. Much appreciated.
auxclass · Member · Mar 12, 2011 at 5:21 pm
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Searching for “password protect post” w/o” at: http://en.support.wordpress.com/ yeilds this as the top result: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/

The support documents are your friend, and many times quicker than waiting for the Forum.
mountaincoward · Member · Mar 13, 2011 at 1:37 am
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Now I’m at home I find my password protected page is indeed still protected (as Raincoaster said – thanks).

mystiqki, from your dashboard first select pages (left hand side) and your created pages will show up in the middle box. Select ‘edit’ under the page you want to password-protect. In the ‘publish’ box on the right you’ll see a ‘visibility’ option. Click on the ‘edit’ button to the right of that. You should then get the option to choose the ‘password protected’ selection. It will then go into a page which will prompt you to enter a password. Then click the ‘update’ button and it is password protected…

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