Marcus Downing

Dani Llewellyn

<p>Whenever a site is under development, or its content should remain private, you want to prevent to general public<br />
from reading it – whether deliberately or by accident.</p>
<p>A comman way to do this is with <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/auth.html" rel="nofollow ugc">HTTP authorisation</a>,<br />
but this has some problems:</p>
<ul>
<li>Each user of your site has two different sets of username and password, one for the authorisation and one for<br />
WordPress login. It’s not uncommon for some users to find this confusing.</li>
<li>To set up authorisation you need access to your web server’s configuration (at least using the <code>.htaccess</code> file),<br />
which may not be available depending on your hosting supplier.<br />
You also need to learn how to configure the authorisation correctly, and risk breaking the site if you get it wrong.</li>
<li>When the time comes to remove the authorisation, you need to edit the configuration again.</li>
<li>In certain circumstances, combining authorisation with WordPress login can get a visitor into a circular redirect<br />
loop, where the result of logging in is to redirect to the login page.</li>
</ul>
<p>Site PIN solves these problems by replacing authorisation with a simple PIN. This has the following advantages:</p>
<ul>
<li>Everybody knows what a PIN is, and it’s clearly not the same as a password.</li>
<li>Logging into WordPress bypasses the PIN, so you can’t lock yourself out</li>
<li>It’s just a WordPress plugin, so no server configuration is necessary.</li>
<li>You can change or remove the PIN from WordPress admin.</li>
</ul>


Site PIN

Prevent careless visitors by locking your site down with a PIN

kuck1u

<p>This plugin the very simple.<br />
Simply by enabling the plugin can set up a basic auth to dashboard and login page.<br />
Auth information of Basic Auth is your WordPress user name and password.</p>
<h4>Requires</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 4.3 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 5.4 or higher</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute!</h4>
<p>You can fork the plugin from <a href="https://github.com/visualive/va-simple-basic-auth" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></p>


VA Simple Basic Auth

Simply by enabling the plugin can set up a basic auth to dashboard and login page.

Site PIN vs VA Simple Basic Auth