Make website (in development) accessible only through log in.

born_boy
(@born_boy)

12 years, 10 months ago

My website is still in development but I want to make it accessible to a few people via the internet. These people will have to log in with a password and username that they will be provided with. I’m not sure about how exactly to go about this. Any help will be appreciated.

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esmi
(@esmi)

12 years, 10 months ago

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/absolute-privacy/ ?

mchelles
(@mchelles)

12 years, 10 months ago

I am using this plugin to password protect sites I develop for friends/family/clients/etc.:

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/hide-my-site/

Very easy to activate and setup 🙂

Thread Starter born_boy
(@born_boy)

12 years, 10 months ago

Thanks for the help.

One more question though. I’m still not sure about how to put the site online without it being accessible to everyone. Right now it’s on localhost. Using any of the plugins you suggested, do I upload it to the internet the normal way or is there a different procedure.

carrierawks
(@carrierawks)

12 years, 10 months ago

To share with others outside of your computers local network then yes it will need to be put online. My suggestion is to create a subdomain so the url/path could be something like: http://dev.yoursite.com and make sure that the reading settings found via http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php have the searchable by search engines (Google, Yahoo etc) unchecked to add some sort of privacy.

Now you have a live online development site that you can work on as well.

All about moving your wordpress install: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server

Hope that helps 😉

Thread Starter born_boy
(@born_boy)

12 years, 9 months ago

+1000000 for all your help.
Much appreciated.

loosi007
(@loosi007)

11 years, 10 months ago

Hello born_boy,

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/hide-my-site/ this plugins password protect whole site, If you need to block any post go to edit page and click on edit button at visibility section and choose password protected option. This is best way password protect for single page I am also sometimes using this method for my site posts like [Redacted], this method work perfectly.

Thanks.