How to Password-Protect a Single Page in Squarespace (2024)

Oct 3

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There may be times when you want to password-protect a specific page on your Squarespace website.

For example, if you want to create pages only employees can access, or offer a lead magnet for customers.

You can easily hide individual pages behind passwords. Here’s how to create a Squarespace password-protected page in less than twenty seconds.

How to make a password-protected page on Squarespace

Step one: Access your page

Click Pages in the main Squarespace menu.

Hover over the page you want to password protect and click the cog icon to access settings.

Step two: Add your password

Go to general settings and scroll down to the bottom of the section.

Under Password, enter the password that will unlock the page.

This password must be fewer than 30 characters and will be case-sensitive. When you enter your password, it will appear as a series of dots, but you can click the eye icon to view it.

Don’t use your Squarespace account password (or any password you regularly use) as your page password. If you want a password that’s unique and secure, an online password generator like 1Password is useful.

Save when done.

Step three: Test your page

When a password is applied to a page, you’ll see a padlock.

I recommend testing your page to make sure the password works. Go to the locked page in another tab in your browser, ideally in private browsing or incognito mode. You should see a lock screen that looks like this.

Enter the password and you should be able to access the page. If not, go back and double-check what password you put in.

To remove a password, go back into the page settings, delete the password, and save.

Some things to bear in mind about Squarespace password-protected pages

You can only set one password per page. You can’t create different passwords for different people
Adding a password means the search engines can’t crawl your page. This means your site won’t appear in Google or Bing (or will eventually be removed from the search results), and you won’t get organic traffic to that page
You can’t password-protect collection items like blogs and portfolio pages individually. You can only password-protect these items at the top level
You can customize your lock screen by going to Pages, System Pages and Lock Screen

Membership sites: an alternative way to password-protect your site

If you want more control over how you set up Squarespace password-protected content, or you want to create different levels of gated access, you might be better off with membership sites.