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HTTP Auth

by Sami Ahmed Siddiqui

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Description

This plugin empowers you to set up HTTP Authentication for your website. This adds an extra layer of security by requiring a username and password to access specific areas.

Here’s how it benefits you:

  • Enhanced Admin Security: Shield your admin pages from brute-force attacks by adding a login barrier.
  • Controlled Crawling: Restrict crawlers from accessing your site during development, preventing unnecessary indexing.
  • Post-Launch Access Control: Maintain control over admin page access even after your website goes live.
  • Easy Activation/Deactivation: Conveniently enable or disable HTTP Auth without deactivating the plugin entirely.

Help Us Improve!

I am constantly working to enhance this plugin and your feedback is valuable. If you are happy with the plugin, consider leaving a review on WordPress.org. Your positive feedback motivates us to keep improving!

Link to Reviews: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/http-auth/reviews/?rate=5#new-post

Bug Reports

We welcome bug reports for HTTP Auth on GitHub: https://github.com/samiahmedsiddiqui/http-auth. Please remember that GitHub is primarily for bug reporting, and issues not classified as genuine bugs may be closed.

From within WordPress

  1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
  2. Search for HTTP Auth
  3. Activate HTTP Auth from your Plugins page.
  4. Go to “after activation” below.

Manually

  1. Upload the http-auth folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate HTTP Auth through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to “after activation” below.

After activation

  1. Go to the plugin settings page and set up the plugin for your site.
  2. You’re done!

This process defines you the steps to follow either you are installing through WordPress or Manually from FTP.

Seems to be working very well to me

By nipter on July 9, 2023

Thanks a lot for having made this nice and simple plugin!

Not working for complete site

By Fixdemonium (problemizer) on December 5, 2022

I checked the "complete site" radio button, but the auth only appeared on the wp-admin page. So the plugin is not working as advertised.

Great Plugin, Great work

By melissalee on November 1, 2017

Great to see such a plugin available. Works like a charm and has more options than I thought. I appreciate that!

It Works For Me Perfect

By sahir (sahir1) on October 27, 2017

It Works For Me Perfect.... ThaNks.

Best Plugin and Easy to use!

By chrintinecase on October 2, 2017

I was use this plugin on my website. It work good on my website. I’m very much satisfied with this plugin.

It's simple and it works

By motokun on November 23, 2016

  • Generating .htaccess and .htpasswd by hand is pain. This little plugin does that
  • Admin UI is okay
  • It's simple
  • Source code is GPL2 and is short enough, I reviewed it and found no tricky things
  • I'd better uninstall it when site goes live

1.0.1 – Dec 23, 24

Fix minor WPCS issues and change text for better understanding.

1.0.0 – July 28, 2023

* Fix WPCS issues

Earlier versions

* For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the separate changelog.txt file.
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