password protected posts
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I tried to password protect a post as an experiment but it displayed the post anyway and it showed up as visible on Facebook since my accounts are connected. Fortunately, this was only a test and not a real disclosure of something I would be upset about others seeing or knowing. However, if for any reason I wanted to utilize the feature in the future, I want to fix the problem or find out what I did wrong. I chose to edit the privacy option. The choices were private, password protect and public. I chose password protect and entered a password and clicked ok. To begin with, when I viewed the changes, I was presented a screen that required me to enter a password to view the post but immediately on logging into Facebook, I saw it was public and viewable by anyone.
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Did you log out of WordPress.com and then clear your browser cache and cookies before visiting the site without logging in like any visitor would do http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/
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Yes I logged out of WordPress but did not clear my browser at any point. Not only that, I went straight from WordPress to Facebook, where I saw that the post was visible to everyone who I am friends with and friends of friends. So it shouldn’t be a browser issue at all. At this late date, I went ahead and published it. I have another post that illustrates WHY I want to explore protecting future posts that I can set up and send you a URL too. Let me post this, go back and set it up and send it.
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I just cleared my browser and republished a password protected post. It’s too late to matter now and I may not use the option in the future so it’s irrelevant at this point actually. http://mycoignofvantage.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/3344/
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Yep, it’s password-protected. The only reason it didn’t seem so to you was that you’d already stored the password as a cookie on your computer.
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