Frontend Gatekeeper Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Frontend Gatekeeper hides the public frontend of your WordPress site unless visitors arrive with a configured URL parameter and value. It is useful for staging sites, soft launches, client previews, and pre-release content where you want to share a single shareable link instead of issuing individual user accounts.
Logged-in users always see the site normally, so editors and administrators are never blocked.
Features
- Hide the entire public frontend with a single toggle.
- Configurable parameter name and secret value, set per site.
- Custom blocked message shown to unauthorized visitors (served with a 404 status).
- Same-site link propagation: WordPress-generated links, menus, and block content automatically carry the access parameter forward, so visitors stay authorized while browsing.
- Footer-script fallback that adds the parameter to links and forms rendered outside normal WordPress filters.
- Gutenberg and block-theme aware through the
render_blockfilter andWP_HTML_Tag_Processorwhen available. - Multisite-aware URL scoping for subdomain and subdirectory networks: access on
/site-a/will not leak the token to/site-b/. - Logged-in users, wp-admin, REST API, AJAX, cron, and
wp-login.phpare always allowed through.
Typical use cases
- Sharing a staging or pre-launch site with clients and stakeholders.
- Gating a soft launch behind a single link instead of provisioning accounts.
- Hiding draft or campaign content until you are ready to publish.
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