custom password protected page text editable by client

That helped! Thanks! Here’s what I did. First I had to create a page called contact-password.php in my theme. If you don’t have ftp access to a site to just make that file in your theme, you can plug this code into line one of the header.

<?php touch('wp-content/themes/your-themes-name/contact-password.php');?>

save the file, load the main page once, and then remove this code. The file is automatically added to your editor.

Here’s the functions.php code:

<?php
add_filter( 'the_password_form', 'custom_password_form' );
function custom_password_form() {
	global $post;
	$label = 'pwbox-'.( empty( $post->ID ) ? rand() : $post->ID );
	$o = '<form class="protected-post-form" action="' . get_option('siteurl') . '/wp-pass.php" method="post">
	' . get_template_part( 'contact', 'password' ) . '
	<label for="' . $label . '">' . __( "Password:" ) . ' </label><input name="post_password" id="' . $label . '" type="password" size="20" /><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="' . esc_attr__( "Submit" ) . '" />
	</form>
	';
	return $o;
}
?>

It pulls in whatever you place on contact-password.php to the password protected pages.

It looks like a styling issue to me. on style.css I took off
float: left;
under input[type=”submit”], input[type=”reset”]
and it looked fine.

You may have to give this one button on the private page a class of its own to make it look right.

Under Firefox > Preferences > Security, i have the box checked to remember passwords for sites. You probably have this too. Just uncheck that and clear your browser’s cache. The pre-fill you see in the password input should be gone.