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Author: Jacob M Goldman (C. Murray Consulting)

Limit access your site to visitors who are logged in or accessing the site from a set of specific IP addresses. Send restricted visitors to the log in page, redirect them, or display a message. A great solution for Extranets, publicly hosted Intranets, or parallel development sites.

It includes an easy to use configuration panel inside the WordPress settings menu. From this panel you can:

1. Enable and disable access restriction at will
2. Change the restriction behavior: send to login, redirect, or display a message.
3. Add IP addresses not subject to restriction.
4. Quickly add your current IP to the restriction list.
5. Control the redirect location.
6. Choose to redirect visitors to the same path that they entered the current site on
7. Choose the HTTP redirect message for SEO friendliness

1.01 is an important update that improves the fundamental logic pertaining to which areas of the site are restricted. The old approach had several subtle, but problematic side effects, which could include blocking scheduled (cron) events, not passing the "entry" permalink correctly, and similar subtle issues.