Hi Cate, thank you for your quick response.
After taking a look at your Plugin suggestions, they seem to be heading in the right direction, but at least with a brief review, not quite yet a bullseye.
I don’t want my users to be able to create accounts, registrations, subscriptions, etc.
I want to create and manage a list of usernames and passwords. If the user is not on that list, they can’t get in. One of the plugins you mentioned did have a way for me to manually add users, but those plugins are fairly expensive for a simple “list reader” and were fairly complex to set up and manage. Also almost all of them having “caching” warnings, that the server may display to a user, the previous users credentials.
I didn’t know if perhaps you might know of a plugin(s) that would fit the needs I mention above. I took at look at all the “membership” plugins and there’s A LOT of them.
Thank you for your help.
Chris