Site Password Applied To All Pages !!

[Burleigh1]

I recently updated the Site Password and subsequently discovered that ALL pages now have 'Site Password' as the setting under Pages/Visibility.  I only want to password-protect a few pages on the site and it now appears the only way I can achieve this is to work through all the other pages manually setting Pages/Visibility to 'Public'.

Or have I got this toally wrong ?

[Ellie_]

Hi there @Burleigh,

That is the only way to set the different visibility of pages on our editor. If you set a site password, all pages will be switched to locked. 

[Burleigh1]

Really !?!

The site has 200+ pages, I need to protect 6 pages.

Password protection is therefore applied the wrong way around for me, and I suggest, for most other aplications.

[Bernadette3]

Hi @Burleigh  

I'm really sorry for the trouble this has caused. There is a prompt in the password section that alerts the following: "Your site password will automatically apply to all your pages. You can change this for individual pages in the "visibility" section of the "Pages" tab."

HOWEVER, I think I found a work around. Do you see a "disable" option to the right of the password box under the Settings tab? If so, click on it, then click "save". Click on the Pages tab, and the password should now be removed from all pages, and they will be public again. If you do not see the disable option, simply delete your password from the box, then save. 

Next, click on the Pages tab, then click one of the pages you wish to password protect. Click the Visibility dropdown, then select "password protect" and you should see an option that says you need to set the password. 

Click the link and a popup box with display where you can add the password. Now this should be the only page with a password. Repeat these steps by clicking each page you need to password protect. 

Please let me know if this works for you. 😊

[Burleigh1]

So if my understanding is correct......

If you remove the password – all pages go public.

If you add a password when it was previously blank – all pages get protected by that password.

If you remove the password, set selected pages to ‘Site Password’ and then set a password - only those pages become password protected.

Bernadette - thanks for your help, our site now has the password protection we sought.  If you can confirm or correct my understanding, I'll 'Accept Solution' and hopefully this will help other Weebly users.

[Bernadette3 · Accepted solution]

I'm so glad to hear that worked for you! ❤️🎉

Yes, all is correct, but I believe you need to click "disable" and if that doesn't show, delete the password in the box, then click "save" in order to remove from all pages. 

From what I remember, the disable option showed up for me the first time I added the password. Once I removed it, the new option was to save the (deleted) changes. 

I fiddled around with it a bit, so I may have created an extra step for myself. 🤔