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.

andreacomo

Want to protect resources in a folder only to registered users in your WordPress installation? This plugin sync any WP users with Apache basic authentication system file-based automagically: accessing protected resources will prompt for WordPress account credentials
<h3>Advanced options</h3>
If you want to protect resources with WordPress credential on another server, you can provide FTP credentials: 
this plugin will take care to copy <code>.htpasswd_generated</code> to remote server. It’s up to you then to configure Apache <code>.htaccess</code> file propertly.

WordPress .htpasswd Generator

Sync your WordPress users with .htpasswd file for enabling Apache (2.2.18 and above) basic authentication based on file for your resources

Password Protect Staging vs WordPress .htpasswd Generator