[Plugin: Absolute Privacy]

If you want to really lock it down, here’s links to a couple of plugins that put your site in “maintenance mode”.

Awesome, thank you!

But I liked Absolute Privacy a lot for its very simple lockdown =( I’d like if it retained the option to lock everyone out.

This plugin retains the ability to lock everyone out. That is the main purpose of this plugin.

I don’t mean to sound unappreciative of the update to the plugin, I’ve loved it since you first offered it.

The new version doesn’t lock anyone out of the home page, as “Allowed Pages” uses “0” as default to show the home page only…and that means I don’t have a way of saying “don’t show any pages.” I can lock them out of everything past the home page but in this regard anyone can see the blog, where before they needed credentials to even know it was there. It used to be perfect for allowing my friends to see the work I was doing for them without unveiling it to anyone else.

If there’s a trick to bypassing this, please let me know. I’ll happily hack away at my copy to make it work the way it used to.

I just figured it out. Leaving it blank allows you to lock the whole blog. That’s not in the documentation but it certainly works.

Problem solved, thank you!