Title: [Plugin: Absolute Privacy]
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Absolute Privacy]

 *  Resolved [ninjadoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjadoll/)
 * (@ninjadoll)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-absolute-privacy/)
 * I really miss the original version of this plugin. I want to completely (and 
   I mean completely) lock down my sites while I work out bugs, etc., but now anyone
   can land on the home page whether I want them to or not. Is there any way to 
   have it behave like it did before?

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 *  [Tevya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thefiddler/)
 * (@thefiddler)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-absolute-privacy/#post-1958950)
 * If you want to really lock it down, [here’s links to a couple of plugins that put your site in “maintenance mode”](http://tevyawashburn.com/post/put-your-wordpress-blog-in-maintenance-mode/).
 *  Thread Starter [ninjadoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjadoll/)
 * (@ninjadoll)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-absolute-privacy/#post-1958967)
 * Awesome, thank you!
 * But I liked Absolute Privacy a lot for its very simple lockdown =( I’d like if
   it retained the option to lock everyone out.
 *  Plugin Author [johnkolbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnkolbert/)
 * (@johnkolbert)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-absolute-privacy/#post-1958972)
 * This plugin retains the ability to lock everyone out. That is the main purpose
   of this plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [ninjadoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjadoll/)
 * (@ninjadoll)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-absolute-privacy/#post-1958975)
 * I don’t mean to sound unappreciative of the update to the plugin, I’ve loved 
   it since you first offered it.
 * The new version doesn’t lock anyone out of the home page, as “Allowed Pages” 
   uses “0” as default to show the home page only…and that means I don’t have a 
   way of saying “don’t show any pages.” I can lock them out of everything _past_
   the home page but in this regard anyone can see the blog, where before they needed
   credentials to even know it was there. It used to be perfect for allowing my 
   friends to see the work I was doing for them without unveiling it to anyone else.
 * If there’s a trick to bypassing this, please let me know. I’ll happily hack away
   at my copy to make it work the way it used to.
 *  Thread Starter [ninjadoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjadoll/)
 * (@ninjadoll)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-absolute-privacy/#post-1958976)
 * I just figured it out. Leaving it blank allows you to lock the whole blog. That’s
   not in the documentation but it certainly works.
 * Problem solved, thank you!

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 * Last reply from: [ninjadoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjadoll/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-absolute-privacy/#post-1958976)
 * Status: resolved