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:
- Secure your admin pages from the Brute attack.
- Restricting crawler 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.
This process defines you the steps to follow either you are installing through WordPress or Manually from FTP.
From within WordPress
- Visit 'Plugins > Add New'
- Search for HTTP Auth
- Activate HTTP Auth from your Plugins page.
- Go to "after activation" below.
Manually
- Upload the
http-auth
folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory
- Activate HTTP Auth through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Go to "after activation" below.
After activation
- Go to the plugin settings page and set up the plugin for your site.
- You're done!