Password protected category pages

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  bvdklei · Member · Aug 11, 2014 at 3:05 pm

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  Is it possible to create category pages with password protection?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 11, 2014 at 3:22 pm

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  I don’t think it is, as category pages are not actual pages, but merely your feed with a filter applied. I could be wrong, but if the option exists I’ve never seen it. If you want posts in a certain category to be protected the only way I can think of is to add a password to every post in that category. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#password-protect-a-post

  You might also find this helpful: http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/#more-about-category-pages

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  timethief · Member · Aug 11, 2014 at 3:23 pm

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  No there’s no such ability.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 11, 2014 at 3:24 pm

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  @timethief
  Thanks for confirming that.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 11, 2014 at 3:24 pm

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  @kokkieh
  You’re right.

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  bvdklei · Member · Aug 11, 2014 at 4:47 pm

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  Thanks.

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  francisbob · Member · Aug 11, 2014 at 5:12 pm

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  Well you can create a password protected page, in which you could use this shortcode to show articles of a specific category. Each article would need to be password protected individually though.

  Shortcode would look like this :

  [display-posts category="YOURCAT" posts_per_page="-1" order="ASC"]