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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “Hiding” WordPressSaildude, the development site that you have, was the only thing you did is check that box? That one hit that Bing has on it, would it allow someone to access the entirety of your blog if they managed to find that one link? Because that’s what we’re trying to prevent. Not that we have something terrible to hid, per say, but that we don’t want customers viewing the wrong blog and sharing it with people.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “Hiding” WordPressYes, we have two different installs. I’ll check in and see about locking the folder via cPanel. I think that’s a similar method compared to the “.htaccess” file option.
As for the anti-crawling/spiders option, I think I found it. Check the picture below and let me know if that’s the best option. Seems so, given what it says;
http://i42.tinypic.com/2llf5l5.jpg
Thanks to both of you for the support, I appreciate it!
While I’m here… Any specific books that you’d recommend for someone new to WordPress? It’s going to be a big part of the business by being an active blog, so I’ll need to know more than I currently do. Which isn’t much… 🙁
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “Hiding” WordPressThat could be what I’m looking for.
Is it possible for search engines (for instance, Google) to still “crawl” the blog and link posts across the Internet?
After my initial post, I found this excerpt from the WordPress Codex;
“Hiding The Entire WordPress Blog-
Currently the functionality to hide your entire blog from public view, or to restrict it to certain users, is not part of the core WordPress product. There are possible plans to introduce this functionality into a later version.
There are various WordPress Plugins to restrict the visibility such as Page Restrict.
Alternatively, you could use the .htaccess to restrict who can visit your web site, but this is beyond the scope of this document.”
I checked out the plugin they were talking about, but all is does is allow you to block specific pages to logged in users only, which doesn’t help us since 99% of our readers don’t log in. The plugin you’re talking about, though, may do the trick. I guess the only concern/question is if there is some hidden back door to still view the blog — do you know of one?
