Protecting a Website with a Password

You can set a password to protect access to your WordPress website. Anyone visiting a password-protected website must enter the valid username and password to view the website content.

Password protection is useful in the following cases:

• The website is under development and you do not want anyone else to see it.
• You want to show a demo version of the website only to certain visitors.

To protect a WordPress website with a password:

1. Go to WordPress, choose the installation you want to protect with a password, and then turn on “Password protection”.
2. Create or generate a password. If desired, you can also change the username (the installation’s administrator username is used by default).
3. Click Protect.

To disable “Password protection”, turn it off.