It’s Amazing What Bother a Blog Can Generate
OK, this is something I never thought I'd have to do, but this evening I had to password protect my blog. I was getting more grief about it from the management where I work - specifically saying that I could no longer discuss anything related to people or events that took place at the office. In one sense, I can understand my manager's issues - he's told by his boss that this shouldn't have happened, and it shouldn't have, and he responds by trying to make himself look less of the bad guy and more of a sympathetic representative of The Man.
Interestingly enough, you can't do this password protection in the WordPress configuration. At least not unless it's hosted at their site. I don't know why this is, but I found a plugin that allows me to put a password on anything related to the weblog. I'm not sure it's 100% crack-proof, but it's certainly well past a good-faith effort to keep people out of this blog.
UPDATE: If I turn this on, then I can't use MarsEdit to write my posts. That's not something I can live with. What I can do is to post all the messages as drafts so that they aren't visible to the average viewer until I specifically publish them. They are still held on the server, just in a draft state. This way, I can make it appear as though I'm not posting anything else while I am - just not making it visible to anyone but me.
[2/7/08 3:31am] UPDATE: I'm trying to get the password plugin to work with MarsEdit. Hopefully, this will work. Excellent! By excluding the XML-RPC URL from the default password protection, I can allow WordPress' password protection on that to work and the plug-in's password protection to work on everything else. It seems that I have a very workable solution now. No one can look into these pages without the password.
[2/11/08 4:00pm] UPDATE: I've taken it offline simply because I've received more talking to about this weblog. I was meant to help me feel better, enjoy what I've done, and act as a record of the problems I've solved so I don't have to solve them again. But it's become a boat anchor and I've got to shut it down.