Last Friday I said I’d be password protecting yesterday’s post. That the only way to read it would be to subscribe before 4pm Monday. I also said once the 4pm deadline had passed I wouldn’t be releasing the password — the post was effectively ‘sealed off’.
I’ve had a lot of people subscribe after the event, who e-mailed me for the password.
Sorry.
As much as I welcome you, and sincerely thank you for subscribing, I cannot go back on my word and give you the password.
If I did, would you ever believe anything I said in future? Of course not.
And the same policy applies with my 24 hour specials.
If I let people have the discount after the deadline, what would that say about me?
It would say I’m just out for the money, and that I’m dishonest. I’m neither. So for that reason I cannot give out the password. The opportunity to read that post has passed.
However, I will no doubt need to password protect some future posts — so if you’re a subscriber you will get the chance to read all of those, and you’re also going to get a free PDF of my new book when it’s released on the 1st Feb 2008… but more about that soon.
Reading my RSS?
If you’re not subscribed but do read this blog regularly using RSS — apologies. I would have liked to give you access to the password protected post also, but at this time there’s no way of doing that without simply making the post public. (If anyone knows a way please let me know.)
Thanks for understanding my #1 blog policy.
-Ed.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I have seen people include passwords for protected posts and “secret” download links in the footer of posts in the RSS feed. I have not played with doing that in WordPress yet, but I’m sure there is a plugin to do it if the functionality isn’t already built-in to wp itself.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
For example:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-footer or
http://www.blogclout.com/blog/?page_id=140 or
just google for “wordpress rss footer” like I did.
Hope that helps.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
A man of his word! Admirable!
January 16th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Hi Wayne, thanks for the tip. (DOH! Why didn’t I think of doing that!)
Brendan…