How to Make Your WordPress Blog Completely Private
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.
Text version of this tutorial:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-completely-private/
If you liked this video, then please Like and consider subscribing to our channel for more WordPress videos.
Check us out on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/wpbeginner
Follow us on Twitter:
Tweets by wpbeginner
Join our circle on Google+:
https://plus.google.com/+wpbeginner/
Checkout our website for more WordPress Tutorials
http://www.wpbeginner.com/
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.
