Comments on: Tutorial: Password Protect an Entire WordPress Blog

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:04:24 +0000

Thanks for posting this..I just had an irate customer telling me their site is appearing in google before it was finished..Problem solved!

Chris

By: John P.

John P. — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:28:59 +0000

That is a great question! I hadn’t actually tried it so I’m not sure. If anyone else figured it out please let us know.

John

By: beemsterman

beemsterman — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:28:37 +0000

Will people still be able to access rss-feeds?

By: Filmare nunta

Filmare nunta — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:16:28 +0000

Thanks for the share !

By: Gouri

Gouri — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:50:11 +0000

Thanks for the post. I was under the impression that we have the password protect option for the self-hosted blogs as well.

By: Rishabh Agarwal

Rishabh Agarwal — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:28:54 +0000

Indeed Valuable. Thanks for the share :)

By: Zig Baird

Zig Baird — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:57:12 +0000

A few months ago I decided to make one of my blogs totally private for family only. I did something similar to what you described above but, like you said, I had to register everyone.

I found a nice plug-in named Absolute Privacy that does the following (straight from the author’s site):

“Force registrants to enter first and last name
Allow registrants to choose their own passwords
Moderate users: new registrants cannot login until approved
Get emailed every time an approval is waiting (with a link for quick approval)
Lock out all non-logged in views from your website (configurable)
Prevent subscribers from viewing admin pages (like their profile page and the dashboard)”

I find it easy to setup and it works for my purpose. Just another alternative for your readers. The plugin can be found at:

http://www.johnkolbert.com/portfolio/wp-plugins/absolute-privacy/

and can be downloaded from WordPress.org at:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/absolute-privacy/stats/