Title: Restricted access posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Restricted access posts

 *  [Silver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silver/)
 * (@silver)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-posts/)
 * I’m happy to say that I was able to install and import my old entries into WordPress
   without any problems. Now I have a question regarding restricted p0sts. I know
   that WordPress comes with a “Post Password” feature that allows the author to
   set a password for each individual post. I previously used a Scriptygoddess script
   
   [http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/000916.php](http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/000916.php)
   for MT to password protect my posts. Since I have over 120 restricted posts from
   my old MT blog, it would be quite tedious to manually enter a password for each
   entry. I think I also prefer the cookie method of the Scriptygoddess script. 
   I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me if there is a way to use the Scriptygoddess
   restricted access post script in WordPress. Or if they have any other suggestions
   on how to do this without manually entering a password for my old entries.

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 *  [jenn99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenn99/)
 * (@jenn99)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-posts/#post-53556)
 * I think I can come up with a modification to the script so that it works with
   WP – but honestly, I’m still getting my “sea legs” in WP myself – so it may take
   a little while. In essence the script would stay the same – you’d swap out the“
   MT Category” tag – with the WP equivalent – but I’m still trying to figure out
   how archive pages work with WP – so I’m not sure what happens when you move to
   the ind. archive page (equivalent) –
    not sure if that made sense…
 *  [jenn99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenn99/)
 * (@jenn99)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-posts/#post-53588)
 * Actually, I was re-thinking this…
    probably even easier than my original thought
   would be to USE the built-in WP password protection. A simple mySQL query on 
   any posts with category=restricted – set password = (your password) would set
   all your imported posts to the password you picked originally I’ll try to look
   into that very soon… As for the cookie thing, though – that will take a little
   longer to work out…
 *  Thread Starter [Silver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silver/)
 * (@silver)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-posts/#post-53738)
 * Thank you! I’ve been look at WP and though I’m a novice compared to others, I’ve
   found my way around it. The cookie thing would be nice but I’m definitely open
   to new ideas.
    I took a look at what davidchait wrote in this post: [http://wordpress.org/support/4/1997](http://wordpress.org/support/4/1997)
   about having certain posts viewable by users with a certain level. I’m having
   trouble with the code snippet he has in that post. I keep receiving a parse error.
   I’ll keep at it. I know I’m missing something that’s probably really simple. 
   lol

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Silver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silver/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-posts/#post-53738)
 * Status: not resolved

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