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Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
v2.8.4
Protect your WordPress site, pages, posts, WooCommerce products, and categories with single or multiple passwords.
by Saad Iqbal · Website
maintenance modePassword Protectpassword protect pagepassword protectionrestrict content
- Rank
- #189 24h 0 · 7d 0
- Est. installs
- 347,745 High confidence
- Total downloads
- 7.8M all time
- Rating
- 4.4 ★ 142 reviews
- Official installs
- 300,000+ public bucket
- Support threads
- 3 last 2 months
- Support resolved
- 100% of threads
- Tested up to
- WP 7.0.7 compatibility
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Maintenance & compatibility
3 months ago
Last release
- Version
- 2.8.4
- Requires WP
- 4.9.6
- Requires PHP
- 5.6
- On WP.org since
- 2012
About Password Protected
Password Protected is a WordPress plugin by Saad Iqbal, first published on WordPress.org in 2012. It has 300,000+ active installations and 7,823,939 downloads in total, and ranks #189 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Its directory rank held steady over the past week. Users rate it 4.4 out of 5 across 142 reviews. Version 2.8.4 was released 3 months ago. It is tested up to WordPress 7.0.7 and requires WordPress 4.9.6 and PHP 5.6 or later. In the last two months, 3 of 3 support threads were marked resolved (100%). It is listed under maintenance mode, Password Protect, password protect page, password protection and restrict content. Plugins with a similar focus include PPWP, Passster and ContentProtector.
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