Title: post_password_required
Published: December 6, 2016
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘post_password_required’, bool $required, WP_Post $post )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/post_password_required/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/post_password_required/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/post_password_required/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/post_password_required/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters whether a post requires the user to supply a password.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/post_password_required/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$required`bool

Whether the user needs to supply a password. True if password has not been provided
or is incorrect, false if password has been supplied or is not required.

`$post`[WP_Post](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_post/)

Post object.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/post_password_required/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    return apply_filters( 'post_password_required', $required, $post );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/post-template.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-includes/post-template.php#L914)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-includes/post-template.php#L914-L914)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/post_password_required/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [post_password_required()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/post_password_required/)`wp-includes/post-template.php` |

Determines whether the post requires password and whether a correct password has been provided.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/post_password_required/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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