When you select Password protected, you’ll get an option to enter your password:
WordPress Password Protected post
The blog post will still show up on your blog archive list (that means anonymous visitors will still see it in the list), only now it will have Protected: display before the blog post’s title:
Password Protected WordPress post
Anyone who clicks on the post will special lead see a login page:
WordPress Post with password
Only after entering the password can they see the post.
All in all, it’s pretty straightforward. But here’s one cool tip that not a lot of people know about:
If you make all the passwords on your private posts the same, a user can unlock all of those posts just by entering the password once. So once they enter the password on the first post, all the other posts will be available.
On the other hand, if you use different passwords, users will need to enter the password for each post with a different password.
Pretty cool, right?
By making the passwords the same (or different), you can easily make multiple posts private and still have detailed control over who has access.
