Supracorona Login Gate: Simple Access Control for WordPress Sites

For internal websites, client portals, development environments, and WordPress projects that should not be publicly accessible. Not every private WordPress website needs a complete membership system. Sometimes there is no need to manage subscriptions, membership plans, payments, complex user roles, or dozens of content-access rules. Sometimes the requirement is much simpler: The website should only be accessible to logged-in users. That is the reason I created Supracorona Login Gate , a lightweight WordPress plugin that places a simple access gate in front of a website. When the plugin is enabled, logged-out visitors cannot browse protected site content. Instead, they are redirected to the standard WordPress login page or to a custom page selected by the site administrator. The plugin is now published on WordPress.org: Supracorona Login Gate The problem the plugin solves Many WordPress projects are not intended to be publicly accessible at every stage of their lifecycle. They may be: development or staging websites; internal company or organization websites; client portals; private knowledge bases; documentation websites intended only for team members; projects being prepared for launch; demo websites available only to selected users; websites temporarily closed during migration or reconstruction. WordPress provides privacy controls for individual posts, but that is not the same as restricting access to the entire website. Installing a full membership plugin is possible, but it is often far more than the project requires. Such systems may introduce additional database tables, large settings panels, custom profiles, login forms, subscription management, and complex rule engines that will never be used. Supracorona Login Gate has a much narrower responsibility. It is not intended to become a complete membership platform. It is intended to answer one clear question: Is the current visitor logged in? When the answer is yes, the website behaves normally. When the answer