PrimePlaced - Advanced password protection provides tools to secure your WordPress content. Lock your entire website during development, protect client presentations, or manage access to specific areas of your site.
This plugin focuses on user experience, offering clear configuration panels and logical management interfaces to handle access control efficiently.
Free Features
- Global Site Lock: Secure your entire website with a single password.
- Customizable Login Form: Upload your logo, change background colors, and customize text fields.
- Cookie Management: Control how long users stay logged in using session or duration settings.
- Dashboard Widget: View a quick overview of your site's protection status.
- Performance Optimized: Built with lightweight code execution paths.
- Live Preview: View form customization changes in real-time within the admin area.
PRO Features
The plugin supports extension packages that unlock additional premium modules depending on your subscription tier.
BASIC Tier Modules:
- Time-Based Passwords: Configure automatic activation and expiration dates for passwords.
- Pages & Posts Protection: Apply access control rules to individual content items instead of the full site.
- Gutenberg Integration: Manage password-protection states directly from the block editor sidebar.
- User Role Bypass: Grant automatic access to specific WordPress user roles without requiring a password.
- Multiple Passwords: Support for multiple concurrent passwords with unique expiration dates.
- Form Templates: Access pre-designed login forms or design custom branded layouts using Gutenberg blocks.
- Strict Session Control: Option to require re-authentication when navigating between different sections.
- IP Whitelist: Allow access without password from up to 2 IP addresses.
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Event Logging: Track recent authentication attempts with IP and user-agent diagnostic metadata.
BUSINESS Tier Modules:
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Everything in BASIC, plus:
- Extended Rules: Increase capacity for concurrent active rules and scheduled passwords.
- Categories & WooCommerce: Apply protection rules directly to products and product categories.
- Advanced Templates: Access extended pre-designed login form templates.
- Google reCAPTCHA v2: Integrate checkbox bot verification to secure login flows against automated scripts.
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Activity Log Export: Export detailed activity logs to CSV files for external audits.
AGENCY Tier Modules:
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Everything in BUSINESS, plus:
- Unlimited Limits: Remove caps on passwords, access rules, and whitelisted IP addresses.
- Custom Taxonomies: Apply protection rules to any public Custom Post Type or Custom Taxonomy.
- Invisible reCAPTCHA v3: Verify traffic silently in the background using risk scores.
- Log Retention Control: Configure automated database pruning and custom log retention schedules.
- System Backup: Generate complete JSON backup payloads of your configuration for site migration.
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to 'Plugins' > 'Add New' in your WordPress admin area.
- Search for 'PrimePlaced - Advanced password protection'.
- Click 'Install Now' and then 'Activate'.
- Navigate to 'Settings' > 'Advanced password protection' to configure the lock.
Manual Installation
- Download the
primeplaced-advanced-password-protection.zip archive.
- Go to 'Plugins' > 'Add New' > 'Upload Plugin' in your dashboard.
- Select the ZIP file and click 'Install Now'.
- Activate the plugin through the plugins menu.