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.

MatteoCandura

This plugin simplifies the life of WordPress users. 
Now you can easily create an htpasswd file to improve security of your site. 
Set and edit username and password, decide whether to enable or not the protection and the plugin will create a .htpasswd file and also add the necessary code to .htaccess file. 
You can also enable or disable protection and choose to change the permissions of .htaccess and .htpasswd files’ and set those to 444. This improve your security.
Plugin available on <a href="https://github.com/MatteoCandura/wp-htpasswd" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

WP htpasswd

This plugin improve the security of your website during development. It’s perfect to protect your directory. Easy to install, very easy to create username & password. Good job!

Security

Works amazing!

WP Htaccess helps you to improve the security of your site.

Password Protect Staging vs WP htpasswd