[Closed] Wordpress - password protect website?

This is the one I use:

[url= http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance-mode/ ]http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance-mode/[/url]

As with a lot of plug-ins it looks complicated to start with but its really dead simple. When enabled it will display a holding page to everyone else, but you will see your full sit ... so you can test/make changes in real time to your site but the rest of the world will only see the holding page.

CSS Style: In this drop down box you can select a picture/design for the maintenance page.

Heading, Text, etc: You can enter a custom message - remember to click Save at the bottom 🙂

Also remember, to test its working/enabled use a different browser, if you open a new tab in the same browser Wordpress will display your normal website to you as your already logged in as admin.

Its easy honest, you'll see 🙂

19ninety, i want someone else to see only the website. but i don't want them to have the ability to see the WPAdmin. how do i do that?

Don't think that's possible with the standard maintenance mode plugins.

They require you to set them up with the lowest role at least: 'Contributor' – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.
But they'd still see some parts of the admin.

I use [url= http://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protected/ ]this one[/url] on a client's site - no need to give access to the back end

smokeyjo, exactly what i just found and used. thanks.

Ah balls, sorry, totally misread it.

Whilst we're on... any good ideas for sharing draft content?
I've added a Reviewer user but seems they need to have at least Editor privileges. I trust them and all, but they might be tempted to meddle and one of the higher-ups is too busy/lazy to start logging in. Ta!