Is purchasing an upgrade necessary to do this (password protect blog)?

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  thedjcrew · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 4:14 pm

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  I have a blog for my employees that has only been live for a month. I found it starting to show up in search engines and do not want competitors to be able to view it. I found an easy and effective way to password protect it here:

  http://www.hacksar.com/blog/2009/05/20/how-to-password-protect-your-entire-wordpress-blog/

  However, the instructions it gives for modification don’t match the navigation of the WordPress blog I am using (currently the free version). Do I need to purchase an upgrade to have the capability to achieve password protecting the blog using this method? IF so, which upgrade?

  thank you

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 4:44 pm

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  Those instructions are for self-hosted blogs.

  You can password protect posts and pages individually, or you can set the blog to private: http://support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ .

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  thedjcrew · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 8:35 pm

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  thank you!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 3, 2009 at 9:35 pm

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  You’re welcome.