August 06 2008
Build a Secure Family Blog with Wordpress
Just before the arrival of my 2nd daughter I launched a new Wordpress site so we’d be able to keep family and friends up to date with the latest pictures and goings on. We’d previously tried this but after a couple weeks it would start to fizzle to one post a week, then one a month and so on to basically a dead site.
The first couple sites were ones I was building in Dreamweaver with static pages that all had to be updated by hand. Part of the reason in the past that we didn’t just use a blog site was because we wanted pictures and sensitive information to be password protected. Family blogs are different in that respect. You aren’t looking to get huge viewership, you just want to be able to share private photos, videos and stories that you wouldn’t share with the entire world.
Long story short it was never easy enough to post, much less for my wife to be able to post, there were security issues and password communication problems with family, etc. There were just too many obstacles to overcome to create a successful family blog… until now.
Finally! This time we got it right.
Thanks to the help of this post on Simply Basic, I decided on Wordpress and a pile of 
plugins. Surprisingly it works nearly flawlessly, is easy to use, my wife can post with ease (and therefore posts more often), it’s secured, family can all have their own login, and much, much, more.
Here are some more details on setting up your own secure Family Blog.
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