Michael D. Pollock is the original founder of Solostream. He's a geek-at-heart and a small business veteran with over 14 years of experience in sales, marketing and small business (he mistakenly thinks he may soon have it all figured out). You can contact Michael via email here or online here.
By Michael Pollock in WordPress
Rachel Cunliffe has a nice little write-up about how to password protect your WordPress site. I would add this to her list:
Check with your web host. Sometimes you can simply make a change on your control panel to password protect your site. My host 1and1, for example, provides this simple method in their FAQ section.
Introduction: This entire post was compiled from posts made by Iskwew, one of our repeat customers and a frequent contributor to our forum. She raises so many good points that we wanted to share this with the Solostream community through our website.
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On Sep 15, 2008, Michael Green said:
I know that some folks want to create a WordPress Site which is membership only and if that’s what you’re after then I can recommend the following solution.
Note that this will only work if you sell your WordPress membership site access through ClickBank or PayPal specifically, but you can then use Easy-Download Protector at http://www.Easy-Download.com to provide automated access for someone who has just paid to read your blog.
It even let’s you know whether more than one person is sharing the same account through IP Address Alert and you can suspend or delete the shares account.
Automated login and password setup, password reminders, etc. Plus Easy-Download Protector is professionally installed for you, so you don’t need to worry about the techie stuff.
It’s a neat way for writers to protect their membership only blog.
On Sep 15, 2008, Alistair Barnett said:
That probably works well, but it’s $147!
On Nov 15, 2008, weeksgo said:
Good tips! I heard that WP blog are being hacked. So it would be great to know how to protect our WP. Thanks
On Mar 30, 2009, Gordon said:
I will check out the information listed. I was looking for a solution to password protect my blog.