Jordan Hlebarov

<p>Frontend Gatekeeper hides the public frontend of your WordPress site unless visitors arrive with a configured URL parameter and value. It is useful for staging sites, soft launches, client previews, and pre-release content where you want to share a single shareable link instead of issuing individual user accounts.</p>
<p>Logged-in users always see the site normally, so editors and administrators are never blocked.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hide the entire public frontend with a single toggle.</li>
<li>Configurable parameter name and secret value, set per site.</li>
<li>Custom blocked message shown to unauthorized visitors (served with a 404 status).</li>
<li>Same-site link propagation: WordPress-generated links, menus, and block content automatically carry the access parameter forward, so visitors stay authorized while browsing.</li>
<li>Footer-script fallback that adds the parameter to links and forms rendered outside normal WordPress filters.</li>
<li>Gutenberg and block-theme aware through the <code>render_block</code> filter and <code>WP_HTML_Tag_Processor</code> when available.</li>
<li>Multisite-aware URL scoping for subdomain and subdirectory networks: access on <code>/site-a/</code> will not leak the token to <code>/site-b/</code>.</li>
<li>Logged-in users, wp-admin, REST API, AJAX, cron, and <code>wp-login.php</code> are always allowed through.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Typical use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Sharing a staging or pre-launch site with clients and stakeholders.</li>
<li>Gating a soft launch behind a single link instead of provisioning accounts.</li>
<li>Hiding draft or campaign content until you are ready to publish.</li>
</ul>


Frontend Gatekeeper

Hide the public WordPress frontend behind a secret URL parameter. Anyone with the link gets in; everyone else sees a 404.

turtlepod

<p><strong><a href="http://genbumedia.com/plugins/fx-private-site/" rel="nofollow ugc">f(x) Private Site</a></strong> is a very simple plugin to set the site to members only website.</p>
<p>After installation of this plugin, you can enable this in “Settings > Reading” in “Private Site” Section.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Super simple.</li>
<li>Integrate to the WordPress “Reading” Settings seamlessly.</li>
<li>Also protect RSS Feed content.</li>
<li>Useful to set site private before lauching the site.</li>
<li>The GPL v2.0 or later license. 🙂 Use it to make something cool.</li>
<li>Support available at <a href="https://genbumedia.com/contact-us/" rel="nofollow ugc">Genbu Media</a>.<br />
Notes for developer: </li>
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<h4>Github</h4>
<p>Development of this plugin is hosted at <a href="https://github.com/turtlepod/fx-private-site" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>. Pull request and bug reports are welcome.</p>
<h4>Options</h4>
<p>This plugin save the options in single option name: <code>fx-private-site</code>.</p>


f(x) Private Site

Set your site to member only. All visitor will need to login to view site.

Frontend Gatekeeper vs f(x) Private Site