{"id":10924,"date":"2026-05-22T20:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aeosub.com\/frontend-gatekeeper\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:29:49","slug":"frontend-gatekeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aeosub.com\/zh\/frontend-gatekeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontend Gatekeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Frontend<\/div>\n
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Developer<\/th>\nJordan Hlebarov<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Version<\/th>\nv1.0.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Active Installs<\/th>\n0 +<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Requires \/ Tested<\/th>\n5.7 \/ 7.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Last Updated<\/th>\n2026-05-22 11:36am GMT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Official Link<\/th>\nView Details \u2192<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
Hide the public WordPress frontend behind a secret URL parameter. Anyone with the link gets in; everyone else sees a 404.<\/div>\n

Frontend Gatekeeper hides the public frontend of your WordPress site unless visitors arrive with a configured URL parameter and value. It is useful for staging sites, soft launches, client previews, and pre-release content where you want to share a single shareable link instead of issuing individual user accounts.<\/p>\n

Logged-in users always see the site normally, so editors and administrators are never blocked.<\/p>\n

Features<\/h4>\n
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  • Hide the entire public frontend with a single toggle.<\/li>\n
  • Configurable parameter name and secret value, set per site.<\/li>\n
  • Custom blocked message shown to unauthorized visitors (served with a 404 status).<\/li>\n
  • Same-site link propagation: WordPress-generated links, menus, and block content automatically carry the access parameter forward, so visitors stay authorized while browsing.<\/li>\n
  • Footer-script fallback that adds the parameter to links and forms rendered outside normal WordPress filters.<\/li>\n
  • Gutenberg and block-theme aware through the render_block<\/code> filter and WP_HTML_Tag_Processor<\/code> when available.<\/li>\n
  • Multisite-aware URL scoping for subdomain and subdirectory networks: access on \/site-a\/<\/code> will not leak the token to \/site-b\/<\/code>.<\/li>\n
  • Logged-in users, wp-admin, REST API, AJAX, cron, and wp-login.php<\/code> are always allowed through.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Typical use cases<\/h4>\n
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    • Sharing a staging or pre-launch site with clients and stakeholders.<\/li>\n
    • Gating a soft launch behind a single link instead of provisioning accounts.<\/li>\n
    • Hiding draft or campaign content until you are ready to publish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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