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<h4>About</h4>
<p>With this lightweight plugin you can close your website on selected days of the week.</p>
<p>On selected days your website is closed and a landing page is displayed.</p>
<p>When to use:</p>
<ul>
<li>Close webshop during your holiday</li>
<li>Close for religious reasons</li>
<li>Close for maintenance or under construction</li>
</ul>
<p>Main difference between this plugin and similar plugins is that you can select certain days instead of just closing your website.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>After installation go to the settings page. This page is located at Settings > Website closed.</p>
<p>Select days and customize the landing page that is displayed when website is closed.</p>
<h4>Styling</h4>
<p>Custom styling of the landing page via page Additional CSS of the Customizer is being ignored. But you can add custom styling via the settings page.</p>
<h4>Have a question?</h4>
<p>Please take a look at the FAQ section.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.</p>
<p>More <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/very-simple-website-closed" rel="nofollow ugc">translations</a> are very welcome!</p>
<p>The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!</p>


VS Website Closed

With this lightweight plugin you can close your website on selected days of the week.

<p>Private WP will make sure people can only read your blog after they log in. Already logged in users will see no difference.<br />
Users who are logged out will get the login page, and only that.</p>
<p>Use this for private “intranet style” blogs, or closed community sites.</p>
<p>Note that the plugin offers no options. Activate it to turn it on, deactivate it to turn it off!</p>
<p>If you also use Windows Live Writer, be sure to check out <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wlw-login/" rel="ugc">WLW Login</a>.</p>


Private WP

This plugin is simple and robust (it works even it hasn't been updated for 2 years) ... yet it does exactly what it should do: lock the whole site with the login site.
For most of our beta sites this is exactly what we need while the clients editing the site until it is ready for golive. No unnecessary additional features that need your focus ... just active it and its runs.



Does what it should do

Makes your blog accessible only to logged in users.

VS Website Closed vs Private WP