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1. narcissista1
   Member
   Aug 11, 2012, 4:19 PM

   Hi - I am making another blog that I would like to be completely private, except for a handful of friends/family that I would give a password to (most not on WP). As simple as that sounds, I only see two solutions:

   1) Making each individual post private (password protected). This would be a pain for those I invite to the site because then it would be typing in the password again and again

   2) Invite them ahead of time to see my site, but I believe this has to be done via email and that they have to be a WP user.

   Am I understanding my options correctly? Is there a simple way to just issue a password to friends/family for the entire site?

   Thx
   Becca

   The blog I need help with is narcissista.me.

2. aiancu0108
   Member
   Aug 11, 2012, 4:35 PM

   Hi Becca,

   I think you're right, if your blog is private, you can easily invite people ahead of time to see your site. They will need to sign up for a WordPress account in order to view your site though.

   http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-view-your-private-blog

   http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

   I think the only option to make your posts and pages private would be like you said to set everything as "Password Protected" under Visibility.

   Personally, I would stick with making the blog private and inviting users.. It only takes a couple minutes to make a WordPress account!

   Hope that helps.

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