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.

joaorosa

<p>This plugin makes the users login in order to visit the website. Everytime a guest user tries to access the website it will be redirected to a login page of your choice.</p>
<p>The plugin is very easy to configure: Create the login page, go to “Private Intranet” tab in your admin menu, select the login page and the page you want the user to be redirected to, save the changes and you’r all set!.</p>
<p>The “/wp-login” page will still be available.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Compatible with any theme</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
<li>Make your website private – Only logged in user can access it</li>
<li>Redirect Guest users to the login page</li>
<li>Choose a custom login page (instead of wp-admin/wp-login)</li>
<li>Choose the page to which users should be redirected after the login</li>
<li>Use the shortcode [private-website-intranet-login] for more flexibility (You need to activate this option in the “Private Intranet” menu)</li>
</ul>


Private Site with Custom Login Page

Make your website private! Only logged in users can view your website. Perfect for intranets or in development websites.

Frontend Gatekeeper vs Private Site with Custom Login Page