Provides comprehensive security during development by protecting your entire site and your admin pages from brute-force attacks.

Sami Ahmed Siddiqui

Aliya Yasir

<p>This plugin empowers you to set up HTTP Authentication for your website. This adds an extra layer of security by requiring a username and password to access specific areas.</p>
<p>Here’s how it benefits you:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Enhanced Admin Security:</strong> Shield your admin pages from brute-force attacks by adding a login barrier.</li>
<li><strong>Controlled Crawling:</strong> Restrict crawlers from accessing your site during development, preventing unnecessary indexing.</li>
<li><strong>Post-Launch Access Control:</strong> Maintain control over admin page access even after your website goes live.</li>
<li><strong>Easy Activation/Deactivation:</strong> Conveniently enable or disable HTTP Auth without deactivating the plugin entirely.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Help Us Improve!</h3>
<p>I am constantly working to enhance this plugin and your feedback is valuable. If you are happy with the plugin, consider leaving a review on WordPress.org. Your positive feedback motivates us to keep improving!</p>
<p>Link to Reviews: <a href="" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/http-auth/reviews/?rate=5#new-post</a></p>
<h3>Bug Reports</h3>
<p>We welcome bug reports for HTTP Auth on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/samiahmedsiddiqui/http-auth" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/samiahmedsiddiqui/http-auth</a>. Please remember that GitHub is primarily for bug reporting, and issues not classified as genuine bugs may be closed.</p>
<h3>From within WordPress</h3>
<ol>
<li>Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’</li>
<li>Search for HTTP Auth</li>
<li>Activate HTTP Auth from your Plugins page.</li>
<li>Go to “after activation” below.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Manually</h3>
<ol>
<li>Upload the <code>http-auth</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Activate HTTP Auth through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
<li>Go to “after activation” below.</li>
</ol>
<h3>After activation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to the plugin settings page and set up the plugin for your site.</li>
<li>You’re done!</li>
</ol>


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