If you're ready to set your site live but want certain pages to be kept private (perhaps they're private material for paying customers only) you can protect pages with a password to prevent them being publicly accessible.
Passwords are case-sensitive and must be less than 30 characters in length (don't use the same password to access your Squarespace account).
To set a page password, from the home menu, click 'pages' and select the page you'd like to protect with a password. Click on the settings clog and then scroll down to the password field and enter a password of your choice, then click 'save'.
When you've saved your password a lock icon will be shown next to that page in the pages panel to show it's worked and now password protected! To test it, open your site in a private browser - this is how that page will be shown to visitors.
It's recommended that you set a password before adding any content to a protected page so that search engines don't get the chance to index it at all. The password protection will mean search engines can't find the content.
