Members-Only Area?

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  vcwade · Member · Jul 3, 2018 at 6:23 pm

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  I actually don’t need help with my own site, but I am trying to convince others to use WordPress. Iam webmaster for a small local organization. I am trying to convince the group that WordPress is a great option for their site, but they want a public area (general info, event photos, etc) AND a private area (budgets, agendas, etc). Does WordPress offer a way for members of a group to create accounts to log in to private pages on a site? They would not be editing anything. We don’t want to use a single password because it’s too easy to share, thus making it harder for our webmaster to manage who is accessing the member area. Thank you.

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

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  cookgardensew · Member · Jul 3, 2018 at 6:29 pm

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  Hi @vcwade.

  You may want to take a look at the User Roles available:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  and also post and page visibility options:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

  Using these options you should be able to set a site up with both public pages/posts and private pages and posts.

  Hope that helps send you in the right direction. Have a great day!

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 4, 2018 at 8:50 am

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  Hi there,

  For a fully-integrated membership area on a site you’d need to use a membership plugin. On WordPress.com that requires the Business Plan.

  That said, not all membership plugins work great with WordPress.com – we only recommend WooCommerce Memberships at this point – but there are many membership plugins available that can be used on the open source WordPress software with a different hosting provider.