Passworded Blog
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I’m recently new to blogging, and tried blogger and also WordPress. After using both I prefered WordPress, however… whilst looking at both privacy settings on each provider, none have offered a passworded blog? It’s just an idea, I’m sure someone may have already suggested it, but how about a facility to create a private blog, only accessible by a password. Rather than setting up an account with WordPress to read the blog (which I hope I’ve understood correctly is the way to do it) and be invited by the blogger.
Only I have relatives that would be interested in viewing the blog as it’s family based, and some of them would be a little confused about setting up blogging accounts etc. Surely it would be easier for them to go to the blog, then type in a password I’ve designated to view it.
Like I said, just an Idea.
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If you set your blog to private, then people only the people you invite can see it. They have to sign up for a wordpress.COM username and password (that’s how wordpress keeps track of who can and cannot view your blog).
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That’s my point… Couldn’t there be a facility so you don’t have to sign up for an account. To just put a password on the blog, so non WordPress members can view it?
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I’m not entirely sure how the back end is structured, but I do know that it would be necessary to considerably expand the database that wordpress runs on to accommodate that sort of thing.
You can always password protect all pages and posts individually (using the same password) as you make them. Once someone who has the password and has entered it, they would not have to enter it again unless the cleared their browser cookies.
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I believe for social-engineering reasons password-protected blogs are vastly less secure than members-only private blogs. So in addition to lowering the tech burden on the host, they increase your safety and privacy online.
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Something that I did on another blog platform, so that my friends and family would not have to create an account to post a comment on my blog,,,, I created one account just for them, then I gave them the userid and password for it so they could log in and post to my blog without having to go to do the work, themselves, of signing up. That might be something you could consider.
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