Title: Read Privacy
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Read Privacy

 *  [joecleave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joecleave/)
 * (@joecleave)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-privacy/)
 * I would like to restrict reading of all posts to those who have logged in.
 * What’s the best way to do this?
    Am I in plug-in territory? Is there a Non-Subscribed
   Role which I can configure?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Pizdin Dim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pizdin_dim/)
 * (@pizdin_dim)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-privacy/#post-542335)
 * Sounds like you want a strictly private blog. Presumably, you don’t want to give
   access to the search engines and other crawlers either. If so, just protect your
   whole blog with [htaccess/htpasswd](http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/htpasswd.html).
 *  Thread Starter [joecleave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joecleave/)
 * (@joecleave)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-privacy/#post-542340)
 * Thanks pizdin_dim but this is not ideal for me as it will negatively affect the
   user’s experience.
 * Is there any other way?
 * i.e. if the user is not logged in, redirect them to the login/register page. 
   I guess some kind of WordPress modRewrite rule equivalent would be ideal.
 * Maybe plug-in is the only way.
 * Thanks.
 *  [Pizdin Dim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pizdin_dim/)
 * (@pizdin_dim)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-privacy/#post-542465)
 * I’m not aware of any plugins for this but you could (in theory) do something 
   like this:
 *     ```
       <?php
       if (!isset($user_level)):
          header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/login.php?redirect_to=' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
       endif;
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Put it at the top of the “header.php” file in your active theme.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-privacy/#post-542465)
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