NUCUTA

‘Nucuta Password Protect’ is a security plugin which password protects wordpress websites. Requires PHP 5.6.30 or Above.
The plugin uses a custom password, and therefore it’s completely independant from default wordpress password uses to access to the admin area of the site. Users can be restricted to access the site either based on their user group or altogether.
The available user groups are “editor”, “author”, “contributor”, “subscriber”. if a particular group is excluded from protecting from the custom password, users belong to that group won’t be asked the password. Clicking on the log off button logs off from the entire website, meaning the user has to enter the password to access the site again. By default, all users (both guests and registered logged in users) are required to enter the password before accessing the site, but by configuring, logged in users can be excluded. The plugins blocks not only visitors, but also bots, spiders, and all kind of crawlers.
Custom message can be set for both logged in/non-logged in users, A separate login page is provided to login purpose. Password is salted before storing in the database, and therefore security is top notch. The full documentation, and how to use guide can be found at this location. <a href="https://nucuta.com/how-to-password-protect-wordpress-site/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation, Help and Tutorial</a>

Nucuta Password Protect

works even on php 7

Secure your wordpress site with a password. Useful for private blogs.

Marat Nepomnyashy

Overview:
At the time of this writing, the latest version of WordPress, version 5.3, has 3 post visibility options, which are ‘public’, ‘password protected’, and ‘private’.
The ‘password protected’ option allows the site administrator to individually lock certain posts, even from the logged in users, with an additional password / passcode. However, there is currently no built-in way to just deny access only to the unauthenticated users.
Login Require Press is a WordPress plugin that allows site administrators to specifically designate arbitrary posts with any public post type as viewable only after user login. Post authors can also enable or disable login protection for their own posts.
It is an easy way to require login to view specific pages / posts.
Unauthenticated site visitors attempting to view any page that includes any such specifically designated post will then be automatically redirected to the site’s default login page, and then back to the original page after they login, thereby limiting access only to logged-in users with subscriber roles and above.
Plugin will still allow unauthenticated downloading of site’s feeds, but will filter out all login-requiring posts from the feed listings.
Plugin will protect the titles, contents, and excerpts of login-requiring posts in search result page listings when the user is not logged in. The titles / contents / excerpts will be replaced by text “[Post title / content / excerpts protected by Login Require Press. Login to see the title / content / excerpt.]”
Technical summary:
Plugin works by hooking-in special logic into the action ‘send_headers’ to redirect unauthenticated client browsers to the site’s login page from any non-feed and non-search-results page upon detecting any login-requiring post, and by hooking-in another special logic into the filter ‘posts_results’ to filter out all login-requiring posts from all feed page listings, and to protect the titles, contents, and excerpts of login-requiring posts in search result page listings.
Login-requiring posts are marked with a custom field ‘login_require_press’ set to ‘yes’.
Official project URLs:
https://github.com/maratbn/LoginRequirePress 
 https://wordpress.org/plugins/loginrequirepress 
 http://www.maratbn.com/projects/login-require-press

Login Require Press

Easy way to require user login to view specific pages / posts.

Nucuta Password Protect vs Login Require Press