Public site with user-only access to posts/pages
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Hello WordPressers!
So I’m developing a site for a client. They want a site where they can upload AGM reports and the like for their organisation where no one else can see them. Cool, not a problem so far, set it as private and invite users to follow.
Now they’ve recently told me they certain pages public for anyone to view. They’ll put contact information etc on these pages.
My question is can WordPress.com handle this? I can set posts/pages to private to only let users view them, but if the site’s public can’t anyone just register themselves to the site? I also considered passwords, but think that will become a nightmare to administer, and people are inevitably going to share them around, making passwords effectively useless.
I’m sure there’s a plugin on WordPress that can handle it, but is there a way to do this on WordPress.com?
Many thanks!
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, but if the site’s public can’t anyone just register themselves to the site? I
If a site is public anyone can view that site – no they can’t just sign-up for the site – the “sign-up” is used to control comments on Posts and Pages by limiting who can post a comment.
Yes passwords area problem – sorry not much help
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I guess what I’m looking for is to only allow users I specify to look at pages and posts I specify…
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You will either have to password protect them (and all it takes is one person to post the password on FB or Twit and you then have to go in and manually change the password on each password protected page or post manually, and individually. WordPress.com was never set up for that sort of thing.
You would have to self-host a site and then find a membership plugin. There are some rudimentary ones out there, but the better ones will cost $$. Self-hosting will run you $10 to $25 per month, all things considered and then you are responsible for all installations, all upgrades, all backups and all troubleshooting.
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