password protect entire site (w/out membership required)

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  tamarblog · Member · Mar 5, 2009 at 4:33 am

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  new here, so i’m probably breaking all sorts of protocol with this question. i tried searching the forums and still haven’t found a definitive answer… that i’m happy with.

  i want my blog to be for friends and family — a private blog. i want the entire thing to be password protected to avoid strangers from seeing content. the only solution i have found is to have my site-wide privacy settings on “private” with assigned users. however i don’t want to make my visitors have to sign up with wordpress in order to read my blog. i also don’t want to have to name allowed guests explicitly.

  so to summarize, i want a non-member (friend) to visit my site and enter a password to gain access. please tell me that i’ve missed something obvious.

  thanks for the patience and help.

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

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  mark · Member · Mar 5, 2009 at 6:35 am

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  Can’t be done, sorry.
  Everyone needs to be signed up.

  You could create one ID and share that between everyone but comments would end up being mixed up..

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  tamarblog · Member · Mar 5, 2009 at 2:58 pm

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  well, that’s unfortunate. i guess i’ll have to use the single-user ID solution. kinda silly to make grandma register with WordPress.