Password protecting when I use Quick Edit

  • Sapphire

    (@sapphire)


    1 year ago

    How do I stop WordPress from randomly generating and adding a password when I’m working in Quick Edit? When I save my work, suddenly it will be password protected. I’ve had public posts disappear from search for months because of this glitch. It’s been happening for years, on many different sites I’ve worked on. I thought it was my browser or password memorizer, but having worked on many sites in many browsers with different password managers, I can say the only consistent factor over the years is WordPress. Is there a way to turn the whole feature off? I will never need to password protect a post in my use case.

    • This topic was modified 1 year ago by Sapphire.
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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    By default, WordPress does not password protect a post/page.

    Check "VISIBILITY" in the right-hand side panel in editor.

    Thread Starter Sapphire

    (@sapphire)

    That’s not what I’m saying. First, this happens in Quick Edit, not the editor. Second, it’s not setting a password all on its own: it’s generating the password and putting it in the password field while I do other things in the Quick Edit box. Then when I hit save (without noticing it filled in a password), the post becomes password protected.

    I believe I’ve ruled out everything but WordPress as the culprit because it’s happened on Macs and PCs, all different browsers, with all different password managers or none at all.

    WordPress does have an ability to generate passwords for new users, so I assume it’s getting confused and thinking that’s a password field it should fill.

    I would like to answer to this as well. I find it is not consistent – not everytime I hit quick edit, but 2 times in every 10 (on average) the password field autofills. Super annoying as I have to strip it out so the page is not password protected. I usually use mac/chrome. Haven’t taken the time to test it with other browsers, but it sounds like from the OP it happens across platforms. I would love to just turn off this feature as well or figure out why it’s doing this.

    Thread Starter Sapphire

    (@sapphire)

    Looks like we’re on our own. Maybe we can compare some notes?

    I’ve been using LastPass and Bitwarden when this happens. Do you use either? I thought it was LastPass at first because it autogenerates passwords and puts them into fields. But Bitwarden doesn’t do that – it only generates a password for you to copy and paste, and only on command.

    I’ve had it happen in both Chrome and FF. How about you?

    This is why I suspect it’s WordPress’ automatic password generator for new users that’s causing the problem and not another piece of software I’m using.

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