Keep your WordPress site private.
As of April 2026, Site Secrets is a WordPress private blog plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 50K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Private4Time.
Site Secrets is a simple plugin to keep your WordPress site private. When active, it will redirect all unauthenticated users to the login screen.
By default, Site Secrets requires that the user has been added to the site. You can broaden the permissions model to any logged-in users with the following snippet added to your theme’s functions.php file or a mu-plugin:
add_filter( 'site_secrets_requires_membership', '__return_false' );
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| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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