Comments on: Keeping a WordPress Site Private

By: Brian Carnell

Brian Carnell — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:39:01 +0000

I agree that it should be baked into WordPress, but the developers are very conservative about what they integrate into the main trunk of the program vs. what they let people take care of with plugins.

By: Efrem

Efrem — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:20:49 +0000

What a waste of time!! I was hoping that this type of feature will be fully enabled with WP. Why does WP throw users into dashbord when they log in??? Can anyone figure out a way to make it ‘user friendly’ ?

By: Brian Carnell

Brian Carnell — Sat, 01 May 2010 23:52:11 +0000

Yeah, that is one of the issues with WordPress as an end user is that, like you, I don't really have the ability to fix plugins, etc. when they break from WordPress updates so you end up hoping your favorite plugin remains supported or someone picks it up if the original developer abandons it. As for alternatives for 2.9.2, it looks like Absolute Privacy may be the solution you're looking for.

By: Chee Yi

Chee Yi — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:10:15 +0000

It’s not working on my WordPress 2.9.2 I installed it and activated it, and when I try to access my blog, it redirects me back to the login screen again and again, it’s as if there’s an infinite redirect loop. Ironically, even when I’m logged in as the Administrator, it STILL redirects me back to the login screen. I have no other choice but to disable the plugin, are there any alternatives available?

By: Concentrationcomplete

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By: Arkada?l?k Sitesi

Arkada?l?k Sitesi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:21:48 +0000

I’m using it and quite a nice plugin. Thank you.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:24:49 +0000

Hi Brian –
I’d like to restrict access to my blog, too.
But I’d like users to register their own username and password (subject to admin approval).
Do you know any good tools that intergrate well with WordPress?
I was using a package called “Deadlock”, but it’s not well supported, passwords were stored in the clear in a DB, etc etc. But functionally that’s what I was looking for.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:13:26 +0000

Brian, are all URLs protected within the site? I have pictures that are not in wp-content/uploads and I worry that they will be publicly accessible by hitting the URL for them.

Thanks.

By: Brian Carnell

Brian Carnell — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:34:16 +0000

Yes, I have a site that is running 2.7 and is completely private and this particular plugin appears to be working fine with it.

By: Judy Sunderman

Judy Sunderman — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:38:10 +0000

Does this work on the current WordPress, 2.7? I was also wanting a family web site.

By: Brian Carnell

Brian Carnell — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:32:11 +0000

LOL. I love Plastic Man as a verb. That was awesome.

By: Brian.Carnell.Com » Blog Archive » WordPress Private Only Plugin

Brian.Carnell.Com » Blog Archive » WordPress Private Only Plugin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:29:37 +0000

[...] The other day I was looking for a solution to make a WordPress site completely private. Private Only is a plugin that does exactly that — if you’re not logged in, you’re redirected to the login page. I installed it on a blog I use as a sort of private Twitter and it worked seamlessly. [...]

By: Mark Morgan

Mark Morgan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:19:52 +0000

Man, WordPress really is a blogging tool that’s being all plasticman’d into a real tool, isn’t it? Bummer.

By: Brian Carnell

Brian Carnell — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:51:58 +0000

There is an explanation of how to modify Angusman's plugin here. Note, the one drawback to this is that when you log in it initially dumps the user into the Dashboard rather than the site. Other than that, it seems to work fine.

By: Lance Laytner

Lance Laytner — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:09:20 +0000

Hello Brian,

I, too, am trying to make a private WordPress blog that I will host myself and have run into the same difficulties you described. Would you please send me your update/rewrite of Angusman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin? I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks,
Lance