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Helps you to secure your whole site on the development time and admin pages from the Brute attack.

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HTTP Auth

Enabling this plugin allows you to set up HTTP Authentication on your site. You can easily set username and password for HTTP Authentication.

This plugin helps:

  • Restricting crawlers to crawl on your site while development.
  • Restrict admin pages after being your site Live.
  • Easy to activate or deactivate Http Auth without deactivating plugin.

Thanks for the Support

To support future development and to help make it even better please leave a 5-star rating with a nice message to me :)

Bug reports

Bug reports for HTTP Auth are welcomed on GitHub. Please note GitHub is no a support forum, and issues that aren't properly qualified as bugs will be closed.

Installation

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

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. Navigate to the HTTP Auth page from the Admin Dashboard
  2. Set credentials and check the "Activate HTTP Authentication" checkbox
  3. You're done!