by David Gewirtz 4.5 (82 reviews)

My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam

Name: My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam
Rating: 4.5 (82 reviews)
Author: David Gewirtz

Make WordPress private in one click, block registration spam, and safely clean up existing spam accounts.

My Private Site ranks #1,434 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #61 of 1,659 in the Authentication category, a 4.5/5 rating from 82 reviews, and was last updated Sep 2, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v4.2.3 Current Version v4.2.3

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 02 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 6 days ago Last Refreshed on

#61 of 1,659 in Authentication Top 5% by installs Downloads -38.3% this week

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10K+

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634.5K

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90%

Review 4.5 out of 5

4.5 (82 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 96.2%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.5

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

3 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 2 weeks ago

Feb 16, 2024

My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam [jonradio-private-site] < 3.1.0

CVE-2024-0978 · Fixed in v3.1.0
Feb 16, 2024

My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam [jonradio-private-site] < 4.2.3

CVE-2026-81348 · Fixed in v4.2.3
May 29, 2022

My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam [jonradio-private-site] < 3.0.8

CVE-2022-1627 · Fixed in v3.0.8

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Plugin Details

Version: 4.2.3
Last Updated: Sep 02, 2026
Requires WP: 5.8+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: David Gewirtz

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5
Reviews: 82
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

force login private site recaptcha registration spam restricted access

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for site owners who want to restrict a WordPress site to logged-in users only, such as family sites, schools, clubs, or client/staging previews. It solves the problem of exposing private content publicly and prevents registration spam and AI content scraping through built-in login enforcement, spam guards, and crawler defenses.

Make entire site private
Redirect logged-out visitors to login
Custom post-login redirect destination
Spam Account Cleanup tool
Registration reCAPTCHA support
Honeypot field detection
StopForumSpam lookup
NoAI and NoImageAI tags

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam

My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam has 10,000+ active installations on the WordPress.org plugin directory.

My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam holds a 4.5 out of 5 star rating based on 82 user reviews on WordPress.org.

My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam is developed by David Gewirtz and published on the official WordPress.org plugin repository.

My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam requires WordPress 5.8 or higher, is tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or newer.

My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam has been downloaded 634,467+ times from WordPress.org.

The latest version of My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam is 4.2.3. It was last updated on September 2, 2026.

Yes. My Private Site – Make Your Whole Site Private, Force Login & Block Registration Spam is a free WordPress plugin available to download and install from the WordPress.org plugin directory.