Title: Private vs Password Protected Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Private vs Password Protected Posts

 *  [victorycig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/victorycig/)
 * (@victorycig)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-vs-password-protected-posts/)
 * What is the difference between making a post private and password protecting 
   it? Thanks, community.

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 *  [Velda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernovia/)
 * (@supernovia)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-vs-password-protected-posts/#post-763753)
 * I was wondering about this too just now… rifled through the documentation a bit
   and couldn’t tell there either: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts)–
   this mentions making a post private by password protecting it, when really they’re
   two different functions.
 * As near as I can tell, password protected posts will show the post title, categories,
   and tags… and they’ll show a box asking for a password. This happens in the RSS
   and in the theme, at least in the theme I’ve got.
 * If a person isn’t logged in with proper credentials, they won’t even know a private
   post exists. From my testing, I can’t even find a tag I’ve associated with my
   private posts, unless I’m logged in as an Editor or Administrator. Authors, Contributors,
   and Subscribers don’t see the posts.
 * Can anyone confirm this?

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## Tags

 * [passwords](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/passwords/)
 * [private](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/private/)

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 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [Velda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernovia/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-vs-password-protected-posts/#post-763753)
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