WP BASIC Auth
Enabling this plugin allows you to set up Basic authentication on your site using your WordPress's user name and password.
3.6(7 reviews)
·4.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 years agoAs of April 2026, WP BASIC Auth is a WordPress auth plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 3.6/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 123K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: authLdap.
3.6/57 reviews
4.0K+active installs
123K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Enabling this plugin allows you to set up Basic authentication on your site using your WordPress’s user name and password.
It is very useful for setting up Basic authentication temporarily to your development WordPress site and so on.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Awesome Plugin
by Rhand·10 years ago
Great plugin. Instead of setting up ht authentication yourself you can use this plugin and it will allow you to use an existing user and password to authenticate instead of adding one on top or for creating this type of authentication yourself connection it to the users in the admin.
Only thing I missed was some more documentation so 4/5 starts. Thanks!
Doesn't block access to uploads folder
by Amber Hinds·10 years ago
All media files can still be accessed via direct paths.
Pefect
by zangetsu1·11 years ago
Does exactly what’s expected.
only for apache
by gondoSVK·11 years ago·1 reply
doesnt work with nginx and this is not mentiond anywhere in plugin description
Serves its Purpose
by Vajaah·12 years ago
No need to add .htpasswd with the benefit of using user WP credentials.
Download Trends
Today: 13Yesterday: 12This week: 73Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.1.10 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.4 – November, 22, 2022
Checked in WordPress 6.1.1
1.1.3 – March, 13, 2015
Make use of wp_die
1.1.2 – September, 19, 2013
some fix
1.1.1 – July, 30, 2013
fix : Notice: Undefined offset error.
1.0.0 – March 8, 2013
Initial release.
Contributors
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