Title: Redirect Front-end to Login | Headless WP
Author: Benjamin Intal
Published: <strong>September 26, 2017</strong>
Last modified: September 26, 2017

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# Redirect Front-end to Login | Headless WP

 By [Benjamin Intal](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bfintal/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/redirect-front-end-to-login-headless-wp.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-front-end-to-login-headless-wp/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-front-end-to-login-headless-wp/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-front-end-to-login-headless-wp/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-front-end-to-login-headless-wp/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-front-end-to-login-headless-wp/)

## Description

Using WordPress entirely as a CMS (a [Headless WordPress](https://medium.com/@jchiatt/headless-wordpress-with-react-d573bca02ee0))
is a plausible option for people building web apps using technologies such as React
JS or Angular JS to entirely build their front-end.

Doing this, the front-end (e.g. built with React) becomes decoupled from the back-
end (e.g. WordPress). Since WordPress is being used strictly to manage and serve
the content via REST API, the WP front-end becomes unusable and unnecessary – hence
the term _“headless WordPress”_.

**This plugin essentially removes the front-end of WordPress.**

> Note that the REST API, and other non-front-end stuff should work as normal.

#### Features

 * No settings page
 * Allows backend access
 * Allows REST API endpoints
 * Redirects (403 Forbidden) all front-end pages to the login page

## Installation

 1. Head over to Plugins > Add New in the admin
 2. Search for “Headless WP”
 3. Install & activate the plugin
 4. Now your entire front-end (aside from the login page) will become inaccessible.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Head over to Plugins > Add New in the admin
 2. Search for “Headless WP”
 3. Install & activate the plugin
 4. Now your entire front-end (aside from the login page) will become inaccessible.

  How do I use WordPress with React?

[J.C. Hiatt](https://medium.com/@jchiatt) has an awesome post about it in Medium:
[Headless WordPress with React](https://medium.com/@jchiatt/headless-wordpress-with-react-d573bca02ee0)

  What is React JS?

I learned React from an article by [Per Harald Borgen](https://medium.com/@perborgen)
in Medium called [Learn React.JS in 8 Minutes](https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/learn-react-js-in-7-min-92a1ef023003)

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Redirect Front-end to Login | Headless WP” is open source software. The following
people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Benjamin Intal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bfintal/)
 *   [ gambitph ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gambitph/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/redirect-front-end-to-login-headless-wp/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/redirect-front-end-to-login-headless-wp/),
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## Changelog

#### v1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.8.28**
 *  PHP version ** 5.2 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [301](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/301/)[401](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/401/)
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   [redirect](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/redirect/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Benjamin Intal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bfintal/)
 *   [ gambitph ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gambitph/)

## Support

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