Password protected posts
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Hello Fellow wordpressers. I am hoping someone can point me in the correct direction. Whilst waiting for my metatag to verify with google I wanted to attempt to password protect my posts. So i ticked the obvious box etc, put in a password. Then i logged out cleared the cache, but I can still see the posts although they have ‘Protected’ next to the heading.
Have I done something wrong? I believed any other reader would need to input the pass word to see the post.
ThanksThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If you password protect posts, one by one, then (assuming your blog is public) you and your readers will see the titles of those posts. In order for folk to read those posts they will have to type in the password you assign to that post.
If you want your blog to be private, then I don’t see why you would need or want your blog verified by Google or any other seacrh engine??
If you want a private blog, then you would invite readers to see it. But if you have a private blog, then only people you invite will be able to read it. You can also have password protected posts on a private blog.
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To be clear, password protected posts will still be visible to the select group of readers to invite.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/If you don’t invite anyone, then your blog will bw private./secret/hidden.
But we have had this discussion before, with cautions you must keep in mind.
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See this thread again:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/privacy-of-my-blog-1?replies=25 -
@1tess. Thanks for responding. My concern is that when i logged out I could still see the posts …then maybe I hadn’t logged out and cleared the cache properly. I thought I had not utilised a setting correctly. I shall try again..
I am not going to launch into an explanation as to why the blog isn’t private, I don’t see why, as an adult, I need to explain my motivations.
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If you password protect a Post of Page you will still see the title and then a box to enter the password that is normal – else how would someone know what Post / Page to log into? WordPress.COM does seem to hang onto a cookie for a while to remember that you were logged in –
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The site linked to your name is private.
But if your are asking about your other site,
http://rubysroadtrip.wordpress.com
where you noted:I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors
and you are marking each post as private, then I don’t understand why you’d want it verified by Google or any other search engine?
Verifying your blog is something you’d do to make your blog more visible to search engines. I don’t understand why you would want to verify your sites?
As I said, and auxclass said, marking a post password protected only means people need a password. The posts will still show up as titles so readers can put in a password. That is so whether the blog is private, public but not open to search engines, or public.
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We aren’t questioning your motivation; we need information on your actual blogging goals, so we can recommend the best way to achieve them.
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Thank you raincoaster: my answer needed an editor—I was not questioning motivation but trying to get at what verifying a site does:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/Essentially: Makes it more visible to search engines…
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