WordPress MU

I have a question similar to this one: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=5550 but a bit different.

We have WPMU set up and would like to make an internal staff blog. We don’t want to require staff to log in to view it (too many passwords – no one would ever bother) but do want to make it a little difficult for search engines and passersby to read it. Other WPMU blogs need to be publicly viewable in the usual way.

At first we were going to edit .htaccess so that http://www.xyz.org/blogs/thisblog was only viewable from our local IP address. However, it turns out that the directory /blogs/thisblog/ doesn’t actually exist, so we can’t do it that way. I suppose I could do a separate single WP blog in another directory and protect that, but that seems to defeat the purpose of WPMU.

How would you go about doing this?

Take a look at the more privacy options and put your blog setup to subscribers only and just add all the members of staff to it. That way you control who sees your blog and it is done through their login.

Trent

"We don’t want to require staff to log in to view it"

Kinda defeats that. But that's what I would do.

FYI, our systems programmer figured it out. WPMU uses rewrite for URLs like http://www.xyz.org/blogs/thisblog, so he just edited those rewrite rules to control the IP address as well. Same basic logic, I guess, just applied in a different spot. Thanks for the replies.