Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
Protect your WordPress site, pages, posts, WooCommerce products, and categories with single or multiple passwords.
4.4(136 reviews)
·300K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Password Protected is a WordPress maintenance mode plugin with 300K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 136 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Maintenance.
4.4/5136 reviews
300K+active installs
6.9M+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
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Do you want to secure your WordPress site, to password protect pages, posts, WooCommerce categories, etc.❓ If so, then you need to install ✨the Password Protected plugin✨.
Password Protected is a robust password protection plugin for WordPress that empowers you to password protect entire posts, pages, WordPress categories, WooCommerce products, the WordPress login (wp-admin) page, and even partial content with ease.
Additionally, you can secure the password protected screen from WordPress attacks such as a WordPress brute force attack with the limit login feature.
Therefore, the Password Protected WordPress plugin ensures comprehensive security, covering everything from WordPress pages to WooCommerce products, all with a user-friendly inter…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Useless for me
by Kindly Thrive Support·4 months ago·1 reply
I need a homepage public. I want to lock out everything else. This was the top result for this feature, but it is locked behind a paywall. Exclusion of a few pages should be included or at least the homepage. I am sure this is useful for some people, but I need my homepage unlocked for a project.
Premium version is worth it
by Katherine Kern·6 months ago
easy to customize; support is fast
I appreciate the support
by vibrantsystems·6 months ago
While it took a while to get the plugin working with my website, the support team was able to assist me through the more technical issues and it now works without a hitch!
Great Customer Support
by alchambers·7 months ago
I purchased this as a lifetime license, and decided to try it out. I had compatibility issues between this plugin and MainWP, but Muhammad Usama Azad of the Password Protected team was able to debug the issue quickly and provided a fix. It is appreciated.
Very basic free version, but decent.
by lightwavin·8 months ago
This plugin appears to be a good one but quite pricey if you want any features but I understand that the developer has spent time creating this plugin and would like to make some money which is fair. Just discovered one of the developers other plugins which helped do what I needed to do. Thank you!
- This topic was modified 8 months ago by lightwavin. Reason: updated information found
Download Trends
Today: 936Yesterday: 1KThis week: 7KPeriod total: 1.1M
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.7
70.8%
Other
12.9%
v2.6
8.5%
v2.5
7.8%
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Changelog
2.7.12
- Fixed – Fix the Vulnerability issued by WordFence.
- Fixed – Translation issue.
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