How to upload password protected files
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I am trying to upload password protected files onto wordpress.com but not sure how. People recommended getting a plug in but it doesn’t look like you can do that on wordpress.com only in wordpress.org. Does anyone know how to get around this.
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There is no truly secure way to upload password protected files on WordPress.com. You could upload the file to your medial library and then attach it to a post or page that you set to be password protected. But to be honest, if someone knew the URL of the file, I believe they could still get to it.
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Hey root josh,
Thanks for replying. Does that mean that I ned to pay for a web domain and download wordpress.org before I can download any plugins that will let me do that? Any tips on how to go about doing this?
Thanks
Andy
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This guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org
As we only support sites hosted here at WordPress.com, all issues with the new site – including the importing of the file – must be taken to the WordPress.org support community:
If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
Take a look through those pages and let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll be happy to help.
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And yes, to be clear, in order to use plugins you will need to set up a self-hosted WordPress.org site.
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You could always upload the file to a site elsewhere and password protect the post here. That would have the same effect, provided the place you hosted the file allows hotlinking. And isn’t obvious. If everyone knows you’re a dropbox fan, they’ll guess it’s in your dropbox and try and crack that by guessing the URL. Password protection is not great protection.
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Individual PDF files can be password protected then uploaded to a blog here – (some other file types can also work the same way)
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Both Auxclass and Raincoaster have good ideas as well. However, I have a feeling that, if these password protected files are really important toy our site plans, you may be better off looking at a self-hosted WordPress site rather than WordPress.com.
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Regardless of where your site or files are hosted (mine are on Box.com), password protected files are only as secure as the people who have the password and/or file.
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