How to create private site?

Thanks for reaching out.

This isn’t something Wordfence does exactly. There is a good article by the awesome folks at WPBeginner.com that talks about how to set up a private blog that you can look at.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-completely-private/

Everything in Wordfence should work but don’t create a custom login page with the plugin they talk about in the article. Just leave the default /wp-admin. Changing the login URL really doesn’t make the site more secure anyway. If you haven’t changed the /wp-admin URL then 2FA should work without any issue. You can read more about 2FA and how to set it up here:
https://www.wordfence.com/help/tools/two-factor-authentication/

Also, don’t use a caching plugin because caching serves your pages from the disk, not PHP, so they could be visible on the web.

Of course, the best way to keep a site private is not to have it on the internet at all but I think that probably defeats the purpose. ??

Hopefully this helps.

Tim

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