Token Access

Description

This plugin will limit access to the site. Only visitors with a cookie token will be able to access the public website. Visitors without the cookie will see a “coming soon” style of page.

You can customise the “coming soon” content, and you can change the way tokens work. Visit yoursite.com/?add_token to receive the token allowing you to see the site. To remove the limited access, simply disable this plugin.

By default, the token is “letmein”. So use these links:
site.com?letmein
site.com?takemeoff

This plugin is useful when you’re developing your site. You can work on your live web server without having your site open to the public.

Installation

1. Upload plugin to your wordpress installation plugin directory
2. Activate plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
3. Look at the configuration screen (found under Tools in the WordPress menu)
4. You can change settings or customise your ‘coming soon’ content here.

Reviews

Works Great

brewgle March 9, 2018

We wanted a way to secure a support site for users of a paid site. The paid site is on a different platform (not WP). We weren’t looking for iron clad security, just want to keep prying eyes out. At first we thought we’d have to do some sort of database mind meld. Then I stumbled across this plugin. Now we set all support links to include a specific string at the end, and blamo, they get into the support site. If you go to the site without the string, you get a custimizable page. This was the solution for which we were looking.

Useful plugin for restricting website access via token

Anonymous User 13302461 September 3, 2016

I wanted to have links on Site A (authorised members only site) to send people to Site B and allow them access to it. Without unauthorised people being able to go direct to Site B and having access. OK so a member of Site A could get the most current token and give it to friends but, I’m sure I could run a con job to update the URL token on the private page on Site A and also in the Mysql database on Site B or something. Good plugin. Took me a while to find a solution so some keywords to help others find this: Allow cross domain access to website secure token authorisation

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.8.1

• Version bump for build process

1.8.0

• Refactor plugin and check compatibility with latest WP

1.7.1

• Fix: It was showing the placeholder on the wp-login.php page too.

1.7.0

• Rewrote plugin to meet code standards.
• Now stores custom placeholder in options table, instead of writing to a file that will be overwritten when the plugin updates.
• Using the proper WP Settings API to manage options.

1.6.3

• Updating versions & changelog
• Better wp-cli compatibility

1.4.0

• Overhaul for better use of WP functions, and more acceptable CSS rules.
• Compatible with WordPress 4.4

1.2.0

• Initial public release.