Prashant Baldha

Frontend HTTP Authentication Protection provides simple HTTP authentication layer to your fronend site. There is often need to prevent normal visitors and search engine from navigating front website, when website is in development environment before release website in production environment. This plugin serves this need very well by adding HTTP authentication layer to frontend site. This WordPress Plugin uses HTTP Basic Authentication. This plugin is fully configurable from admin panel.
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Features: 
1.Enable Disable Frontend HTTP Authentication 
2.Set Custom Username and Password 
3.Set Login Message which will display in login dialog prompt 
4.Set error content by WYSWYG editor

Frontend HTTP Auth Protection

Frontend HTTP Authentication Protection makes private front part of your website. When web developer like to give demo of website to end client before …

benlumley

Enable, set a user and PW via WP admin and users will be prompted via HTTP AUTH for a user/pw before being able to view the frontend.
Aim of the plugin is to protect staging sites from the prying eyes of search engine robots, and to keep out anyone who might stumble across it accidentally.
This isn’t particularly secure – password is in the database.

Password Protect Staging

So yeah - this does just what I needed, unsurprisingly seeing as I wrote it to do just what I need....



I made the plugin... it does what I need

Quickly and easily password protect a site to keep it from the prying eyes of google.

Frontend HTTP Auth Protection vs Password Protect Staging