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Super Secret makes your blog private. This means, to whoever is registered on the system. The biggest difference between Super Secret and other membership plugins is that the membership plugin redirects you to the WordPres login page, Super Secret does not. Super Secret will return a proper 404 HTTP Header, telling browsers that the website is not found. It will also display a “Not Found” generic dummy page.
This doesn’t mean your website is 100% hidden from everyone who attends it. Users can still see <code>wp-login.php</code>
When you publish a post, WordPress notifies other blogs linked to from your post. This could give away the presense of your blog! Make sure you disable all of these!
Inside “Settings > Discussion Settings > Default article settings”:
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<li>Disable “Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article.”</li>
<li>Disable “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)”“</li>
</ul>
Inside “Settings > Privacy Settings”:
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<li>Select “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors”.</li>
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Other give aways that your blog exist is trying to access ‘wp-admin’ (without the blackslash at the end). If configured correctly, Apache will redirect you to ‘wp-admin/’. This is a clear sign that a blog exists at your domain.
This is not a full proof plugin. There is no such thing as truly secure. You can only deter people.
<h3>Why I Created It</h3>
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<li>Other plugins that blocked people from viewing the site redirected them to the login page.</li>
<li>I wanted to return a proper 404 error, and generic dummy page. This is to prevent anyone or computer form guessing the website exists.</li>
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Super Secret

Super Secret makes your blog private. This means, to whoever is registered on the system. The biggest difference between Super Secret and other member …

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Limit access your site to visitors who are logged in or accessing the site from a set of specified IP addresses. Send restricted visitors to the log in page, redirect them, or display a message or page. A great solution for Extranets, publicly hosted Intranets, or parallel development / staging sites.
Adds a number of new configuration options to the Reading settings panel as well as the Network Settings panel in multisite. From these panels you can:
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<li>Enable or disable site restriction</li>
<li>Change the restriction behavior: send to login, redirect, display a message, display a page</li>
<li>Add IP addresses to an unrestricted list, including ranges</li>
<li>Quickly add your current IP to the unrestricted list</li>
<li>Customize the redirect location, including an option to send them to the same requested path and set the HTTP status code for SEO friendliness</li>
<li>Define a simple message to show restricted visitors, or select a page to show them – great for “coming soon” teasers!</li>
</ul>

Restricted Site Access

This plugin serves what it says. I was trying to solve an issue to restrict my site to specific IP addresses. This plugin solves it. Kudos team. 

Super Helpful Tool

Thanks for this. Works 100%, super helpful. 

Nice work

I have activated the plugin as a replacement for a maintenance plugin on a WordPress instance that I use as an extranet. It does exactly what I was looking for. The settings are absolutely sufficient and completely fulfill their purpose.
Great !!!

Great Plugin for Intranet/Extranet

Limit access to visitors who are logged in or allowed by IP addresses. Includes many options for handling blocked visitors.

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