Gating My Content

Gating Content in JAMstack Sites

This section’s title was borrowed from a Stackbit article with the same title, Gating Content in JAMstack Sites. Working through that article to password protect some of the content at https://Wieting.TamaToledo.com is my tech pursit today.

Nope, Not on Netlify

😦 Last evening I took a shot at implementing the Netlify Identity tricks from the aforementioned article, but could not easily get it to work. The problem, I think, is that the https://Wieting.TamaToledo.com on Netlify already uses Netlify Identity for authentication of my Netlify CMS forms, and adding a second, separate instance of that service isn’t trivial and perhaps isn’t even feasible. I also tried implementing some quick Staticrypt CLI protection but that also failed. Netlify does provide a really quick and painless solution, but it costs $20/month, at a minimum, to enable it.