Title: Which is better?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Which is better?

 *  [hpnotiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hpnotiq/)
 * (@hpnotiq)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-is-better-2/)
 * I have a few people reading my blog, who I’d rather didn’t. For the most part
   it’s OK, but there are times I’ll need to password protect posts. I’m not sure
   the best way to do this.
 * I could password protect and have readers request the password for each post (
   through my contact form where I can see their ip address), I could do a subscribers
   only thing, or I could hide the posts from certain ips.
 * What would you do?

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 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-is-better-2/#post-486198)
 * If it’s really sensitive info, then best solution is don’t post it on the internets,
   anywhere. If it’s casual protection, I’d just go with the built-in WP password
   protection per-post. It seems so easy to set a PW in WP.
 * IP method seems tricky, anyone can go to a coffee shop.
 * But there is a new IP plugin out, WP-Ban.
 *  Thread Starter [hpnotiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hpnotiq/)
 * (@hpnotiq)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/which-is-better-2/#post-486235)
 * I was thinking the same thing about the ip method. The password thing does seem
   to be the best way to go.

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