How about setting up a password to even access the site at all?
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml
Alternatively, you can password protect posts inside wordpress while writing / editing a post, and just give the family members the password. That way you can keep sensitive stuff private, while keeping everything else public.
Also take a look at the option Options -> General -> Users must be registered and logged in to comment.
Nazgul – I don’t think that commenting is the issue – dewall doesn’t want anyone outside the family to be able to even READ the posts, for fear that kids at school will tease his/her children and so on… has nothing to do with commenting.
Ladydelaluna, this line “There has also been some comments which has made me decide that require membership for the blog.” suggests otherwise to me, but I could be misinterpreting.
I’m not going to get into a debate here.
Password protecting the entire site would solve that issue, wouldn’t it?
Yes, I think it would.
I just reread my my last post and it sounded a little bit more harsh than intended, my appologies.
But both are viable options and dewall can pick the one that best suits his wishes.
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dewall
(@dewall)
Thanks for your replies
What Im looking for is a way to allow access to the blog only to registred members, ie, if I type the url for the blog Im redirected to the log in page.
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dewall
(@dewall)
hmmm I take it that it is not possible to use membership as a way of restricting access to the blog.
Oooh, this is the exact same thing I’m coming across…
I’m currently creating a WP blog community for my extended family, and I suppose I could just password protect the whole site, but my in-laws are real technophobes, and having to log in twice would not be a pleasant thing. They also would no go for the whole “log in, then type a password to see any give post”…
I’ve been looking all over to see if there is some sort of plugin that basically allows access to view the posts only if you are a member.
Just a heads up, not quite a solution…
I found this plugin:
http://edwards.org/2006/03/07/subscribers-only-plugin-for-wordpress/
It would do exactly what we want, it’s just not available right now. >.<
Plugin – Post Levels
http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/postlevels
This will allow you to restrict reading access to only members
I found this one:
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-authenticated-wordpress-plugin-password-protection-for-your-wordpress-blog/
In my experience, Angusman’s plugins are always fairly reliable, though in need of a little customization (which he explains on the site)
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dewall
(@dewall)
Now using Angusman’s plugin which suits my needs perfect!
Thanks a lot!!!!!
I have tried Owen’s Authonly plugin http://redalt.com/wiki/Authonly+Plugin
It’s great. You could use a simply html start front page and put in the login scripts there. Users don’t see you blog until they have logged in.
sfong – that’s essentially what Angusman’s does, except you don’t have to create an HTML “start front page” or put the scripts in special…
