Content warning and age restrictions

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    abusehappens · Member ·

    I want to include detailed accounts of some of my experiences of abuse, including sexual. I would like a content warning that needs to be acknowledged before anyone can proceed to reading the blog. I also feel this should come with an age restriction. Can this be set on a free blog? How can I do it (I need very simple instructions please I am not overly experienced in technical issues of site or blog making) please?

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    There are no age restriction warning pages or notices here at wordpress.COM.

    For details re: mature content blogs.
    A blog that is marked as Mature is excluded from public areas of the WordPress.com service. This means:

    It is not eligible to be featured in Freshly Pressed on the front page of WordPress.com
    It will not appear in global tag listings
    It will not appear in Top Blogs listings, recent posts, or related posts listings on other blogs
    The blog’s users cannot use that URL as a link in their WordPress.com Forums profile
    from http://en.support.wordpress.com/mature-content/

    See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts

    From the TOS http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
    Please don’t:
    •Post explicit sexual materials that can be considered pornographic, such as explicit images or video of sexual acts or close-up images of genitalia;
    •Post links or banner ads to adult-oriented affiliate networks, such as pornography site signups;
    •Post links, text, or images promoting or advertising escort services;
    •Post images of extreme violence or gore without associated context or commentary;
    •Post images of child pornography;
    •Post content that promotes pedophilia, such as blogs with galleries of images of children where the images, content surrounding the images, or the intent of the blog is sexually suggestive.

    I suggest you hire a web host who will host such a site and move your content into it. Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-to-a-self-hosted-wordpress-site/

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    The one thing you can do is to set a static front page on your site with a warning as to the nature of the content. We don’t have any way to require acknowledgement on such a page, but if you think about it those acknowledge buttons don’t do much more than just require an extra click to get to the content. They don’t actually verify the age of the person clicking the button. A static front page will have basically the same effect at the end of the day.

    You can find instructions to set a static front page here:

    Set a Static “Home” Page (Front Page)

    Then, as @timethief mentioned, if we set your site to mature it won’t show up in public areas like related post suggestions or Reader searches. People who have the link to your site will be able to find it, but they won’t be able to discover it by accident via the WordPress.com interface.

    If you want this setting to be applied to your site, let me know and I can take care of that for you.

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