How do I password protect my blog
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I have put together a blog for people I work with but I need it to be only viewable by the staff that I share it with. How do I create a username and password that all staff can enter to gain access to the contents of the page without having to get a WordPress account themselves. Most of them won’t want to do this and will just want to view my page. It has to be secure though and not viewable by the general public.
Blog url: http://mypublicoutreach.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Creating a Private site is no problem; just set your site’s privacy settings to “Private”.
If you absolutely must have only one “viewer” account, then create a standalone user only account with an email address that you’ve especially set up for this purpose that you will have to have access to in the future and then invite the user account to view your site.
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While you might think it is “convenient,” having a single log in for a number of people, it is a bad idea. If you will be allowing comments on your private site, how will you distinguish between the commenters, since they’ll all be logged in with the same account? While your private site won’t be crawled by searchbots, anyone with access to the user account, including staff that have left, will have access to view/comment on your site. Since they have the user account log in information, they also have access to the user profile and can change the associated email address/account profile whenever they want.Much, much better in the long run to ask them to sign up for a user only WordPress.com account and invite each of them individually to view your site. (You can invite an unlimited number of viewers on a Private site.) That way you also have control over who views your site by being able to remove people from the viewer list on the Privacy settings page. Just my 2¢ worth.
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Great posts, thank you. I am looking to do the same as “mypublicoutreach.” Here’s my frustration: after doing quite a bit of research, it seems there is significant demand for password protected blogs and websites which don’t require invitees/guests to sign up for an account. I just want to give a password out, and change the password every so often. When my guests/invitees come to my website/blog, they just want to enter a password, and that’s it. My guests/invitees — particularly elderly parents!! — simply won’t sign up for an account, and I can’t blame them. How many of us are just tired of signing up for accounts on this or that website, only to constantly forget the username and/or password? I know I am. Just gets annoying, such that folks won’t sign up, no matter the benefit. I am just surprised that given all this demand, no company out there has stepped up and offered a product of this nature (i.e., simply password protected site). WordPress.com hasn’t. WordPress.org has the option with plug-ins, but it will cost you in the long run. Facebook, Shutterfly Share Sites, and the like haven’t, as far as I can tell. Is there really no one out there offering this product to wordpress.com type, “regular folk,” users (i.e., every day bloggers, as opposed to IT managers, whom I suspect could make this happen)? Any suggestions?
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Well, you can just password-protect each post and use the same password. It’s terrible security though.
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Thank you for the suggestion. But, I am really seeking to just have my guests enter a password once for the entire site.
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