Add password protection to the website?

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  brenta3 · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 1:42 pm

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  Hello,
  I am building a website and I would like to keep it password protected. The actual Free plan only offers a ‘request access via email’ option, but I would be interested in having a simple ‘input the password’ to login the site. (something link this: http://wpgyan.com/how-to-password-protect-wordpress-pages-or-full-site/)
  Is this feature available if I upgrade my free profile to the Personal one?

  thank you
  Luca

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  jenlynnemc · Staff · Feb 10, 2017 at 5:51 pm

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  Hi Luca,
  There is no password protected “site” option, but there are a couple of options that could help.

  One is setting a particular blog post to be password protected, but please remember it would only apply to that particular post. The rest of the site would be visible. Here is a support page that can help! https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/

  The other option would be to make the site Private. The people viewing the site would have to have a WordPress account, but you would then add them in as Viewers. Here is a support page that can explain in more detail as well as explain how to set it up.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  Hope this helps!
  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 5:54 pm

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  As stated above you cannot password protect a whole site. You can password protect posts and/ or pages on a site.

  You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the site, to change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

  Then see:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-site

  Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required. The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but they do not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.

  If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. He or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1

  NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.

  Upon receipt of the invitation, the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.

  The invitees need to be logged into their WordPress.com account prior to clicking the “Accept Invitation” link.

  Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

  See here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#changing-user-roles

  Note:
  The number 10 is the number of outstanding invitations you can have at any point in time. That limitation is a spammer prevention measure. Wait until the invitees have registered and send out 10 more.