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How to Make Your WordPress Blog Completely Private ctm magazine
Do you want to be able to make your site completely private? Often users will want to use WordPress to share personal photos with select people but not to the world. In this video, we will show you how to make your site completely private as well as password protecting specific posts.
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Summary of this tutorial:
For making the site private, start by installing and activating the My Private Site plugin.
Once activated go to Settings, Private Site to configure the plugin settings.
Check the ‘Make Site Private’ section to enable the plugin preventing users from viewing your site.
You can choose to allow users to register on your WordPress site, under ‘landing location’ you can choose which page users will see when they login. If landing location is not set then users will be redirected back to where they were before logging in.
You are allowed to exclude some parts of your website from being private. Such as a contact form or an about page. Don’t forget to save your changes and your site will now become private.
WordPress also has a built-in feature to password protect specific posts and pages. You would want to edit the post or page that should be password protected.
Once editing, under the Visibility settings you would want to set it as password protected and create a password. Update the post and you now have a password protected post or page on your WordPress site.
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love your voice! Thanks for the video
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At Uni we don't have access to plugin installation on our WordPress sites, but a similar result can be achieved through looking on the right when editing a post or page, and changing its visibility to Private under the Publish category 🙂 Obviously not as good as using a plugin for the whole site but if it's minimal content you have then it won't take long if you don't have access to plugins. Nevertheless great tutorial and it might come in handy in the future!
Love you WPBeginner…Love Love Love…Now how do I allow folks to sign out of my private site?…I see alot on log in pages, but nothing about how someone signs out…I am currently working on a site where you have to have a password to sign in (no user info) and I want these same folks to be able to sign out…Not sure how to do it…Help.
Thanks so much for this video! I was looking all over my dashboard – didn't realize I needed to add a plugin for this. Really appreciate it!
This is fantastic, thanks!!
love your voice! thank you for the info.
Very Helpful!
Is there a way to manage users in a way to authorize or reject their subscription to your WP site?
Short, clear and with/to the point. Thank god you don't feel the need to play distracting background music! Thanks again
wow thank you so much , easy to understand tutorial
Regards
Gaven Malope
South Africa / Sandton
Hi — I'm not clear if this pertains only to a person's self-hosted wordpress site (wordpress.org) or if it also applies to wordpress.com blogs, hosted by wordpress itself? Thank you
Thank you. You are Awesome !
I am subscribing, Please Keep up the Good Work !
Can the login page be customized?
Thanks so much for this video! Save my life!
So i did this and now even after deleting or disabling this particular plug in i still cannot access my page! cleared cache, resetted router, incognito window didnt help either, can you tell me how to make my page public again????
2021 the plugin is still active but it has improved, so basically how it works is the same but there are more details.