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.

Sebastian Weiß

Lightweb Media Basic Authentication is a plugin for protected your development WordPress site like .htpasswd. 
The Plugin supported an localhost bypass for the wp-cli and an mu-plugin creation for Rollbacks.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Easy for setting Basic Authentication</li>
<li>Basic Authentication works like .htpasswd</li>
<li>Protected development website or demo website without .htpasswd</li>
<li>Support Docker and Kubernetes (K8s)</li>
<li>The plugin is lightweight.</li>
<li>Create mu-plugin for rollbacks</li>
<li>Allow Bypassing for localhost (for WP-CLI)</li>
</ul>

Lightweb Media Basic Authentication

Lightweb Media Basic Authentication for protected your development WordPress site like .htpasswd

Password Protect Staging vs Lightweb Media Basic Authentication