1.0.0

Put a single shared password in front of your site's front end.

The gate reproduces WordPress's own login chrome, so it inherits core's styling, RTL layouts and focus handling, with an uploadable logo in place of the WordPress mark and an optional message above the password box.

Install: download simple-password-protection-1.0.0.zip below and upload it under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.

Requires WordPress 6.7+ and PHP 7.4+. Single site; multisite is out of scope.

Two things worth reading the FAQ for: XML-RPC is refused entirely while the gate is up, which breaks Jetpack and the WordPress mobile apps on a protected site; and wp-activate.php cannot be covered from inside a plugin, so it needs a one-line block at the web server.