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.

Sebastian Weiß

Lightweb Media Basic Authentication is a plugin for protected your development WordPress site like .htpasswd. 
The Plugin supported an localhost bypass for the wp-cli and an mu-plugin creation for Rollbacks.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Easy for setting Basic Authentication</li>
<li>Basic Authentication works like .htpasswd</li>
<li>Protected development website or demo website without .htpasswd</li>
<li>Support Docker and Kubernetes (K8s)</li>
<li>The plugin is lightweight.</li>
<li>Create mu-plugin for rollbacks</li>
<li>Allow Bypassing for localhost (for WP-CLI)</li>
</ul>

Lightweb Media Basic Authentication

Lightweb Media Basic Authentication for protected your development WordPress site like .htpasswd

WP htpasswd vs Lightweb Media Basic Authentication