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  amwcmd · Member · Dec 30, 2018 at 9:12 pm

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  I have a personal blog on the free platform. Is it possible to make it accessible by password rather than requiring that they create WordPress accounts?

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

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  eozolins87 · Member · Dec 30, 2018 at 11:16 pm

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  Hi there,

  As far as I understand, you would need to upgrade to the Business plan and use a plugin in order to password protect your full site without requiring readers to create WordPress.com accounts.

  However, you can set individual posts and pages to “password protected”.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

  In theory, you could use the same password for each post and page. Please note: you cannot bulk edit posts/pages to change status from password protected to public. If you decide in the future you’d like everything to be publically accessible you will need to individually update the status of each post and page.

  Personally, I would set the site to Private for simplicity, or pay for the Personal upgrade and use this plug in to password-protect the full site.