by jamiewilson 3.7 (3 reviews)

Gatekeeper

Name: Gatekeeper
Rating: 3.7 (3 reviews)
Author: jamiewilson

Gatekeeper allows administrators to take a WordPress site offline while leaving it accessible to authorized users for maintenance, testing, etc.

Gatekeeper ranks #12,120 among WordPress.org plugins with 200+ active installations, is #301 of 1,523 in the Performance category, a 3.7/5 rating from 3 reviews, and was last updated Oct 23, 2017. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.8 (Current: 7.1)

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 8 years ago Last Update on 23 Oct, 2017

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#301 of 1,523 in Performance Top 25% by installs No update in over a year

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#12,120

-26 this week

Active Installs

200+

-22.8%

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Downloads

17.7K

+4 today

Support Resolved

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Rating

74%

Review 3.7 out of 5

3.7 (3 reviews)

Next Milestone 300

Total Progress 52%

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Overall 74%

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: Oct 23, 2017
Requires WP: 3.0+
Tested Up To: 4.8
PHP Version: N/A
Author: jamiewilson

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 3.7
Reviews: 3
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Gatekeeper is for WordPress site administrators who need to perform maintenance or testing on a live site. It lets them take the site offline for regular visitors while keeping it accessible to admins and other authorized users.

Redirect visitors to offline page
Replace WordPress pages with offline page
Whitelist logged-in admins
Auto-whitelist current admin's IP
IP-based whitelist with wildcards and ranges
IP-based blacklist for banned IPs
Admin notifier when site is offline

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Gatekeeper

I needed a "coming soon" page for a site I was working on but also needed to be able to use WordPress myself in order to test themes, designs, etc. The existing landing page themes are nice, unless you also need to be able to test a theme without letting the world see. At first, I added some PHP code into the WordPress index.php file to redirect all but my IP address to the coming soon page, but WP upgrades opened my site to the world. Editing the htaccess file is an option, but it's extra work and only works until my IP address changes. So...I created Gatekeeper.

No. Gatekeeper protects all WordPress pages (except admin and login pages) from everyone but those whitelisted, so redirecting to a WordPress page would create an undesirable redirect loop.

The offline page can be any web-friendly page: HTML, PHP, text, etc. It's not required, but recommended, to keep this file in a separate directory to keep it from being confused with WordPress files.

No.

No. The primary purpose of the plugin is to take sites offline for maintenance. The Blacklist was designed as an extra feature to help thwart connections from undesirable IP addresses, but is not designed as a security feature. Wordpress administrators would be advised to use Wordfence, iThemes Security, Bulletproof Security, Sucuri Security, or another widely used and trusted WordPress security plugin for security. Help! It doesn’t work!! If the plugin doesn’t appear to be working, first check your whitelist. Make sure you’re not testing from a whitelisted IP address. If Auto-Protect Admin IP is checked, the plugin will attempt to automatically whitelist your IP address and let you see the site normally. If you have Whitelist Logged-in Admins checked, the plugin will let you view the site normally as long as you are logged into WordPress. The plugin is designed to do its best to not lock you out of your own site.