password protected page issue

How did you create this password protected page?

I created a new page and then set it to pass word protected. i then followed the prompt to create a password. i then published the page. The page is showing on the site with the enter password prompt, but if when i’m logged in it takes me to the dashboard, and for those not logged in it takes them to a wp login page. thanks in advance for your help…

Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

will try that and report back

i deactivated all plugins and reactivated them one by one and tried the password fpr the protected page again, and it still is not logging me into the page, but into my dashboard. Those who are not logged in are being directed to log into wordpress…frustration continues….

You need to deactivate all plugins then re-activate the plugins one by one – checking the password protected page after each reactivation.

will try and report back…thanks

I did as you suggested and password access to the page with every plugin deactivated does not work either….the frustration continues….thanks

Try switching to the TwentyTen theme and see what happens.

esmi,
Thanks for the suggestion. I did try switching to the Twenty Ten theme and all that happened when I typed the password when prompted was going to a WordPress login page.. Needless to say I am stumped.

Esmi,
I have figured out the problem: I have a URL and a different display name. The problem was the pasword was using the display name for access and not the url name. the dispaly name is an address that i ofrwarded to the site after the blog was initially established. Well when i realized what the problem was, i went to change the display name and inadvertantly changed the url name which caused a major problem…i am in the process of reinstalling the application with the same urland display name. Fortunately,there was only one entry and a cpuple of pages which i have to replace….. I so appreciate your wilingness to help me.

I’m having a similar problem – I password protected a page, and when I type in the password, I’m directed to the WordPress admin area. I’ve tried de-activating and re-activating all my plugins but that’s still not fixing the problem. It seems that other people are having this problem as well – see this forum thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/password-protected-page-not-working – but there doesn’t seem to be a resolution to it.

Is it perhaps a problem with WordPress?

The problem I am having is that I set the page to password protect, it says it is password protected, but when I click the link to the password protected page, it is NOT password protected. Is that because it has been LINKED from a word on a page as opposed to being a page you get to by a navigation link?

IF so, how can I fix that?

SEE: https://www.graniteproperties.com/dev

Page in question: go to Association Management, Homeowner Association Management, then click on Neely’s Canyon. On that page, there is a link at the bottom – “Neely’s Password Protected Information.” (And it is not password protected.) Note, there is no info on the page yet, as I need to resolve this first.

I’m having an identical problem to hdhd411. However, I’m a bit thrown off by the terminology and unsure how to solve.

What does the “display name” refer to that could be causing a mismatch? Also, when there’s a mismatch and a page can’t be found, wouldn’t a 404 be displayed instead of a login page?

I have a protected page, and only SOME of the users see this exact problem, though. Two people, both with Win7 and Firefox 3.6 (identical sub-version), and one person sees the problem and the other does not. It seems to be some sort of setting on the client side more than anything. A session within a session? I don’t really know.

All I know is that the functionality is a bit broken right now, and the page I’m trying to protect is critical for a certain category of end-users. If it doesn’t work for 100% of the people using it, there’s a big problem. I would use something traditional like .htaccess to protect the page, but as you know there’s no physical asset that I can protect; it’s content being served through a php application tied to a database!

Assuming I get the terminology sorted out, is there a way to “re-create” these pages so that the ‘display name’ and URL line up?

Thanks!

Sorry for the bump, but just wanted to see if anybody out there may have run across either the problem or the solution. It held up more people over the weekend, meaning I have to now make that page public, which obviously wasn’t part of the original site design.

There’s obviously some sort of bug, but I hesitate to make an official bug report without reproducible steps. I don’t honestly KNOW why some people are being redirected to the wp-login, and I can’t reproduce in my local environment. I’m hoping someone out there has reproducible steps so that I can file a proper bug report. ??