

In this post, I’ll start by making my metaphor a bit more concrete with a more detailed discussion of whitelisting. Whitelisting IP addresses is your website’s equivalent of a reception desk – it lets authorized visitors through while blocking access to those who aren’t supposed to be there. Your WordPress website is a business – so there’s no reason you can’t apply the same logic to your digital office. Those who are whitelisted ( AKA on the appointment list) get in. Instead, visitors are screened against an appointments list to ensure that they’re actually supposed to be there.

