How to Password Protect your Tumblr

If you want your Tumblelog to be private, only letting access to the people you choose, there’s a feature called password protect. So you can now share your blog with friends, family or classmates. In addition you can block access to search engines, making your blog totally secret.

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How to Password Protect your Tumblr

Go To Your Secondary Blog’s Dasboard
Click on Blog Settings, located on the right sidebar
Scroll Down until you see the option “Password Protect This Blog”

Tumblr Password Protect

There are some limitations that make the password protect feature on Tumblr not complete:

You cannot password protect your main Tumblr blog, meaning, if your tumbelog is rather old, you would have to export your posts to the secondary blog
If you want to customize your additional tumblelog html, you will have to make your browser remember the password you just entered, there’s a bug that prevents you from seeing the customize navigation bar after you enter the pass

6 Responses to "How to Password Protect your Tumblr"

Cheng
May 30, 2010 at 1:55 am

Hi, I’m wondering about the tag function in password-protected tumblr blog. Can we tag posts in password-protected tumblr blogs and not have the posts show up publicly with that tag? For example, posts tagged with the word Japan would turn up in tumblr.com/tagged/japan.

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Mr. Tumblr Reply:
March 22nd, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Yes, the effect is the same, otherwise this password option would useless.

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deykamol
July 27, 2010 at 11:32 am

While this is a good idea, I started my tumblr ages ago and never gave details to anyone, however recently one person I know has found it and has told everyone about it. Now I’m getting stick for it as people read the back pages.
I never created a second blog off the main one because I didn’t want/need two blogs.
I really enjoy tumblr and would like to keep using it, but I’m being forced to consider deleting my blog now because of all the problems I’m getting. This could be easily solved by tumblr staff allowing main blogs to be password protected, I don’t understand why you only added that feature for use on side-blogs. It’s seems silly to force people to create a second blog if they want to password protect it, when this doesn’t help those who, like me, wish to only update one. I don’t do this for the fun of it, this is a serious blog for me, I use tumblr because I love the flexibility of the website and blogging. This website was actually recommended to me by a therapist to log my issues and face them head on, but now people have found it…
Seriously tumblr, everyone seems to be asking you allow this feature on all blogs- why won’t you ?

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invisibleescape
September 15, 2012 at 1:46 am

I want to try and edit a password protected blog, but I cannot find a ‘customize’ button like on my original blog. I want to edit the description for the second blog, but I can’t find the edit button to do that…

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serena
February 1, 2013 at 12:21 am

heey! thanks this helped a lot but then i changed my html and the passcode doesnt appear anymore…what should i do? thanks again! xoxo

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Mr. Tumblr Reply:
February 1st, 2013 at 11:51 am
the theme has nothing to do with it. Try getting a default theme and see if that gets it fixed.

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