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Of course, no sensible blogger wants to keep their opinions hidden behind a password. :-)

But suppose you are a web designer building a WordPress site for a client.  You don't want people stumbling across your work until your client is ready to unveil it.

Or suppose, like me, you use WordPress to build an online company Policy and Procedure manual.  Having  the P&P manual available to the entire online world was just fine when the only stuff it contained was basic legalise, "Do the Right Thing" admonitions.

But now that I have started adding pages that outline how we manage listings and sales, how we research property and present CMAs, it occurred to me that this kind of stuff is proprietary company information, and the site should be password protected.

Yes, I know you can password protect individual pages right in WordPress.  But I wanted to password protect the entire site, but make it accessible with just one site-wide login.

So, Ive spent the last several days bumbling around with various password plugins and I finally found one that does exactly what I wanted:

http://broome.us/archives/2007/01/31/the-wordpress-password-plugin/ 

http://broome.us/archives/2007/01/31/the-wordpress-password-plugin/

 

I'm sharing the link to the plugin here in case other Active Rain members might find it useful.  (Also so I can find it again if I need it).  :-)

Posted by

 

Cheryl Johnson

 



 

 

Duncan Boan
Century 21 South Island Realty - Victoria, BC

Hi Cheryl

That looks like a very useful plugin to use in the site development state. Thanks for the link.

 

Feb 02, 2009 10:26 AM
Stephanie Edwards-Musa
thredUP.com - The Woodlands, TX
knitwit at thred UP

Hi Cheryl,  this is really neat!  I can think of a lot of ways to use this.  Thanks!

Feb 08, 2009 11:30 PM
Cheryl Johnson
Highland Park, CA

And it's really simple to use.

Now when someone goes to our online Policy & Procedure manual this is what they see:

Agents have staff have the password. 

Feb 09, 2009 12:51 AM