Is this related to the custom directory, maybe? (This method of password protection doesn’t use htpasswd, does it?)
No and no 🙂 Works fine for me on a test site. Try switching your theme to TwentyEleven and see if it works.
My theme is Twentyeleven (1.2), so that’s not it. I’ve established that it’s not just this one post (i.e. I’ve created several that behave the same way) and I’ve tried it with multiple browsers (chrome and FF). Any other ideas how I could troubleshoot this?
Site url?
I’ve also not come across any issues with password protecting posts when WP is installed in a custom folder (and I’ve done custom installs oodles of times).
That is not an original copy of the Twenty Eleven theme. Do not edit the Twenty Eleven theme. It is the default WordPress 3.2 theme and having access to an unedited version of the theme is vital when dealing with a range of site issues.
Upload a fresh copy of Twenty Eleven and create a child theme for your customisations.
OK, I did this- Created a new dir for the child theme of 2011, migrated the one thing I’d changed (the #access style) to a new style.css below an @import statement, cached a copy of my custom footer.php in the child dir, zipped up the original /twentyeleven, then uploaded a fresh copy of twentyeleven.
Then I switched the theme to twentyeleven. The menubar went back to black.
Tried to open the protected post- same thing, entering a password in the Password: box and hitting submit just seems to reload the page.
Nothing in the apache access or error logs related to this page, as far as I can tell.
Did you ever get this resolved? I am having the same problem.
I figured out my issue via this thread: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/password-protected-but-no-access-to-page-1?replies=28
basically I made the site address and wordpress address the same (my new domain that I wanted to show in the address bar instead of my subdomain.)
Yep, I finally figured it out, too- I had the following in General Settings
WordPress Address (URL) http://mydomain.com/vvp
Site Address (URL) http://www.mydomain.com
putting a www in the WordPress Address seems to have made the post-level passwords work.
