Title: Password Protected Post
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Password Protected Post

 *  [jackiefg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackiefg/)
 * (@jackiefg)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/)
 * Can anyone help? I password-protected one of my posts and yet when you type in
   the password, it doesn’t work, it doesn’t show you the post.
    I changed the b2template.
   functions file for the message to read “put in my son’s middle name to read this”
   but if you put in my son’s middle name… justin… it doesn’t work. I then changed
   the message, thinking that perhaps it didn’t accept ‘ or , and it still didn’t
   work. There’s no point in me password protecting the post if nobody can read 
   it. Anybody know what I can do about this?

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 *  [Laughinglizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laughinglizard/)
 * (@laughinglizard)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28680)
 * Jackie, it works for me (toronto community foundation…right?). You must have 
   a cookie set which is causing a problem. Try emptying your cache and clearing
   your cookies…
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28682)
 * I cleared all my cookies and it still wouldn’t work. But the funny thing I found
   in the meantime, is if I go to my total stats page, and click on the title of
   that post, it takes me right to it – doesn’t ask for a password or anything, 
   and yet the password will still not work for me.
 *  Thread Starter [jackiefg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackiefg/)
 * (@jackiefg)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28683)
 * riiiight – now that I cleared all my cookies, I showed up as anonymous 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [jackiefg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackiefg/)
 * (@jackiefg)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28685)
 * alrighty then, I’ll live with that, as long as it’s working. Perhaps I’ll try
   it with another browser too.
 *  Thread Starter [jackiefg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackiefg/)
 * (@jackiefg)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28686)
 * uhoh, I tried it with IE (I’ve been using Avant) and it didn’t show me a spot
   for the password at all – it just showed me the post and the title that said “
   protected:”
 *  [southerngal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southerngal/)
 * (@southerngal)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28704)
 * One thing I have found is that once you put your password in, you can see everything,
   RSS feed, protected posts, archives. I test out a new word by posting a protected
   post with a new password that only I have. 🙂 Remember it’s not a “private” post,
   it’s a protected post. Private is where you and only you can see the post, kinda
   like draft, but with a password.
 *  [nikkiana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikkiana/)
 * (@nikkiana)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28805)
 * It’s actually quite an easy fix… Go into your Options, then Base Settings, and
   then remove the trailing slash on your URL, and you will miraculously find that
   password protected entries work.
 *  [lamb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lamb/)
 * (@lamb)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28909)
 * erm… some how i tried that but somehow.. it still does not work..
    i’m using 
   nightly 07052004..
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28910)
 * avant and IE are 1 and the same things…
 *  [etoile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoile/)
 * (@etoile)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-post/#post-28992)
 * Regarding nikkiana’s post: no dice. My WP URI is [http://www.amanita.net/wordpress](http://www.amanita.net/wordpress)
   and my blog URI is [http://journal.amanita.net](http://journal.amanita.net) –
   no idea if that’s related, but you’ll notice neither has a trailing slash. I 
   am also using Permalinks.

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