Title: password protected posts
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# password protected posts

 *  [prefork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prefork/)
 * (@prefork)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-posts-7/)
 * If I password protect a post: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Password_Protection](https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Password_Protection)
 * Shouldn’t that post not be available in clear text in the RSS feed for everyone?
   Because that’s what just seemed to happen to me.

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 *  [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/)
 * (@mindctrl)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-posts-7/#post-7247664)
 * Hi,
 * It shouldn’t be happening. It sounds like you’ve entered the password to view
   the post and then tried to view the feed with the same user/browser. Try closing
   your web browser entirely then view the feed, or try a different browser. You
   should find that the post content is not available.
 *  Thread Starter [prefork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prefork/)
 * (@prefork)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-posts-7/#post-7247778)
 * I will 100% guarantee you that did not happen.
 * Web developer calls me up — being the local friendly sysadmin — on the phone 
   and says he thinks Google has somehow found the password protected post (the 
   first one made on the site), so I — having never seen the post before — investigate
   and find the text in the RSS feed.
 * I have since added:
 *  <location /feed/>
    Require all denied </location> <location /comments/feed/>
   Require all denied </location>
 * to the Apache virtual host.
 * The site is complicated in other ways, and there could be something else going
   on. In particular, if I test on the virtual host that is used for editing the
   site, the feed does not have the post. But the DB is copied to a second place
   for the live view (and on that host, wp-login.php is “Require all denied”).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [prefork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prefork/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-posts-7/#post-7247778)
 * Status: not resolved

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