Unable to disable the password protection on my site.

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    abigailtaylor2004 · Member ·

    I started my blog for school purposes so when you search up the web address it is password protected. However, I want to expand my work and get rid of the password protection and just go public but despite changing the setting to public and saving that, it still comes up password protected, could you help? thank you!

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    mmarjb · Member ·

    Hello there,

    Would you mind sharing your site address?
    Also, is this a .htpasswd protected or
    default WordPress page password protected? Please be more descriptive. 🙂

    Regards.

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    abigailtaylor2004 · Member ·

    My site address is abigailtaylorsgovernmentandpoliticsblog.wordpress.com and it is the default wordpress password protection which I originally added myself- as an alternative to it being fully public.
    Hope that is clearer,
    Abi

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    mmarjb · Member ·

    Hi Abi,

    Thanks for the insights.

    Your raised issue:

    I want to expand my work and get rid of the password protection from a page and just go public but despite changing the setting to public and saving that, it still comes up password-protected, could you help?

    Guidance & next steps:

    May I have your wp-admin → Pages screenshot like this: http://prntscr.com/103icog. Do you have the page status ⮞ Password protected, Front Page?

    If you have the password set with the page, after unset & update the page it should play nice on the frontend- http://prntscr.com/103iojr. I’m not sure why it’s not playing on your case.

      Bypass Password Protection from the existing page:

    However, if you have the FrontPage set as a static page from the → Reading Settings then you can follow another trick to bypass the password protection for that particular HomePage.

    1. Copy your entire content of the existing affected Home page and copy it- http://prntscr.com/103iuol.
    2. Create a new (Home)Page and paste the content over there- http://prntscr.com/103iw8q and published.
    3. Now navigate to your → Reading Settings again and set your newly created Home Page 2- http://prntscr.com/103iy4g.
    4. Additionally, then you can permanently delete your previous/affected home page and reset your newly created Home Page’s slug as Home to make it a pretty URL-http://prntscr.com/103j3vn.

    This is how you can reconstruct your site Home Page to bypass password protection.
    I hope this will helps.
    Cheers! https://gph.is/2RXveM5

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