Restricted Site Access
Limit access to visitors who are logged in or allowed by IP addresses. Includes many options for handling blocked visitors.
4.8(62 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Restricted Site Access is a WordPress limited plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 62 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.1M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Simple Limited Access.
4.8/562 reviews
20K+active installs
0%resolved
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Limit access your site to visitors who are logged in or accessing the site from a set of specified IP addresses. Send restricted visitors to the log in page, redirect them, or display a message or page. A great solution for Extranets, publicly hosted Intranets, or parallel development / staging sites.
Adds a number of new configuration options to the Reading settings panel as well as the Network Settings panel in multisite. From these panels you can:
- Enable or disable site restriction
- Change the restriction behavior: send to login, redirect, display a message, display a page
- Add IP addresses to an unrestricted list, including ranges
- Quickly add your current IP to the unrestricted list
- Customize the redirect location, including an option to send them to the same requested path and set the…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Simple, effective and without unnecessary frills
by Orsp·7 months ago·1 reply
I was looking for a plugin to enable access to a site only for registered users. A work site for editors, authors and contributors to a magazine. A site that only users with an account should be able to access.
I installed this plugin to replace an old plugin that was no longer updated and… surprise 😮
Restricted Site Access is simple, effective and importantly, without unnecessary frills, which works well (at least for now, we will of course monitor the situation for a while).
I would like to thank all the authors of this plugin for their work.
Best regards,
Oriano
📌 Please keep this plugin simple, essential, secure, and reliable. Don’t complicate it in the future with lots of new redundant features.
Does the job
by jendabek·12 months ago·1 reply
I just need to restrict my whole WordPress site to certain IPs without messing with htaccess, and this plugin works perfectly for that.
Great Plugin for Intranet/Extranet
by Hans-Gerd Gerhards·2 years ago·1 reply
I have activated the plugin as a replacement for a maintenance plugin on a WordPress instance that I use as an extranet. It does exactly what I was looking for. The settings are absolutely sufficient and completely fulfill their purpose.
Great !!!
Highly recommended
by pf92·2 years ago·1 reply
This plugin delivers what it announces and does a perfect job.
great plugin!
by maoflager·3 years ago·1 reply
easy use and powerful plugin.thanks.
Download Trends
Today: 308Yesterday: 649This week: 3KPeriod total: 198K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v7.6
46.6%
v7.5
24.5%
v7.2
8.8%
Other
8.4%
v7.3
6.3%
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Changelog
7.6.1 – 2025-10-29
- Fixed: Ensure field data is set properly before we use it. Resolves a fatal error with Elementor (props @ktorktor, Vishal Patel, fatjester, @dkotter, @peterwilsoncc via #371).
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