ClevelandWebDeveloper

<p>Choose a single password to protect your entire wordpress site. Only visitors who know the password will be able to access your wordpress site. This is a great tool for someone setting up a development version of a wordpress site or anyone else looking to hide their site from the public, search engines, etc…Set your site-wide password by going to <strong>Settings > Hide My Site > Set Your Password</strong>. If you want to disable password protection uncheck the box at <strong>Settings > Hide My Site > Enable Password Protection</strong>.</p>
<h4>Duration</h4>
<p>You can choose how many days you want the user to stay logged in by going to <strong>Settings > Hide My Site > Duration</strong>.</p>
<h3>New in Version 1.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>You can choose to automatically grant access to specific ip addresses</li>
</ul>
<h3>New in Version 1.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>You can set and customize the title tag for the login page</li>
<li>You can choose to discourage search engines from indexing your login page via Settings > Reading > Search Engine Visibility</li>
</ul>
<h3>New in Version 1.4</h3>
<h4>For Everyone</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Brute force protection </strong> Blocks access to users after repeated failed login attempts. This protects you from hackers trying to guess your password using “Brute Force” methods. Protection can be toggled via Settings > Hide My Site > Brute Force Protection</li>
<li>You can choose to automatically grant access to admin users</li>
<li>Preview login page option – See your login page as a logged-out visitor would see it. Helpful if you want to see what your login page looks like even if you are already logged in</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.3</h3>
<h4>For Everyone</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>‘Password request for every page’ bug fixed.</strong>This will resolve the issue for the vast majority of the subset of users who were experiencing the bug that site visitors were receiving password requests on every page. Also, users can now log in from any page – you no longer have to log in from specifically the homepage in order to stay logged in.</li>
<li>Conflict with polylang plugin fixed</li>
<li>Password characters now hidden when entered on front end</li>
<li>Select a notification message to appear at the top of your login page</li>
</ul>
<h4>For Premium Users</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set background image size, position, repeat, and color via plugin settings page</li>
<li>Customize notification message text which appears at the top of your login page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Older Versions</h3>
<ul>
<li>See Changelog</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>Note, this plugin does not currently work with WP Engine hosting because they automatically cache your pages for you. If you use WP Engine or another host that auto-caches, try contacting them directly and ask them if they can deactivate the auto page caching on your site. If you are using a caching plugin and you notice that it conflicts with Hide My Site, try deactivating the plugin and see if that resolves it. Note that deactivating a caching plugin does not always purge the cache. Before you deactivate the caching plugin, first go to the plugin admin page and turn off caching from there.</p>
</blockquote>


Hide My Site

Choose a single password to protect your entire wordpress site from the public and search engines

Jonas Hjalmarsson

<p><strong>Version 1.5.0 is a recommended security update for all existing users.</strong> It blocks JavaScript injection on the Under Construction page, hardens the bypass cookie (Secure/HttpOnly/SameSite), tightens IP-whitelist validation, and fixes silent breakage with WP-CLI, cron, and the REST API. The plugin’s behavior and settings are unchanged — existing setups upgrade in place. See the changelog for the full list.</p>
<p>Add a really simple Under Construction page to your website by enabling this plugin. Use IP whitelisting and a secret URL to grant access to selected users without logging in.</p>
<p>Go to the settings page in Settings > Really Simple Under Construction. Enable by checking the checkbox. The Under Construction page is only visible to visitors who are not logged in. You can optionally configure:</p>
<ol>
<li>The Under Construction page itself — paste any HTML (DOCTYPE, <style>, <body> etc. are supported, scripts are stripped).</li>
<li>A secret word that lets you bypass the page via a URL like <code>?yoursecret</code>. A cookie is then stored so the same browser keeps access.</li>
<li>The lifetime of that cookie, in days.</li>
<li>A list of IP addresses to whitelist for users and services that should always see the real site.</li>
</ol>


Really Simple Under Construction Page

Hide your site behind a really simple Under Construction page. Bypass with a secret-word URL or an IP whitelist for testing.

Hide My Site vs Really Simple Under Construction Page