Making my blog private/members only

On the Codex page, Plugins/Restriction, found this plugin:
https://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-authenticated-wordpress-plugin-password-protection-for-your-wordpress-blog/

Taragana has been down for a while now, try searching google for it

I googled and I didn’t find anything for the newest version of WP.

is there a way to edit the database?

Still looking for some help on this??

Yes it can be done, I didn’t find a plugin either!

Look at Role Manager plugin, set option Read Private Posts for your registered members. I have customised my site quite a lot, but I think that does what you want.
Chris

Is there a way you can view the blog site, but not the posts?

ChrisHE thanks I will give that a try!!