Private blog viewership

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  iamadamhudson · Member · Aug 12, 2014 at 2:21 am

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  I want to keep my blog private, but I want my facebook friends to have access to my blog. How do I set this up?

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

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Aug 12, 2014 at 9:08 pm

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  Hi Adam,

  There are really two main options here:

  1. If you would like to make your entire blog private, you will need to manually invite viewers to view your blog. They will need to have a WordPress.com account to view your blog. Instructions can be found here:

     http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/#viewing-a-private-blog

     http://support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-view-your-private-blog

  2. An alternative would be to set each post to passcode protected. In this method, all of your content would be available to anyone unless you password protected it as described here:

     http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#password-protect-a-post

     However, in this method, if you post something to your blog, you could put the password on your Facebook page and target it only to Facebook friends with a link to the post. This eliminates the need for them all to have WordPress.com accounts. However, there’s really nothing in place to stop them from sharing the code with anyone else.

  Look over those two options and let me know how you would like to move forward!