Restricted Site Access
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About
Limit access to visitors who are logged in or allowed by IP addresses. Includes many options for handling blocked visitors.
Security History
What It Does
Restricted Site Access blocks visitors who are not logged in or not on an approved IP address list from viewing your WordPress site. Blocked visitors can be redirected to a login page, a custom URL, or shown a configurable message. It also lets you whitelist specific pages or restrict RSS feeds as needed.
Who It's For
This plugin is well suited to organizations running internal or member-only sites, such as corporate intranets, law firm document repositories, university course portals, or agency client dashboards. It works particularly well when most authorized users already have WordPress accounts or access from known office IPs. The recent compatibility bump to WordPress 7.0 makes it a safe pick for sites planning to stay current.
Who Should Skip It
If you need granular per-page or per-content access control, content dripping, or paid membership billing, this plugin is too simple and you will want a dedicated membership solution. Public-facing content sites, blogs, and WooCommerce stores should also skip it, since blocking the public is the opposite of what those projects need.
The Bottom Line
Restricted Site Access does one thing, blocking unauthorized visitors, and does it with a near-perfect user rating of 96 and a strong overall quality score of 79.81. It is not a membership platform and it is not a security suite, so users expecting per-content paywalls or firewall features will be disappointed. For straightforward intranet, client portal, or member-area use cases on a modern WordPress 7.0 stack, it is a lean and dependable choice.
Related Plugins
Pick this instead if your priority is HTTPS migration and broad site hardening rather than visitor access restriction.
Choose Wordfence when you need a full security stack including firewall and malware scanning on top of any access controls.
Pick Jetpack if you want access restrictions bundled with backups, performance tools, and traffic analytics in one plugin.
Choose Members when you need fine-grained role editing, per-post permissions, and content dripping beyond a simple site-wide block.
Pick Complianz if your main concern is regulatory privacy compliance such as GDPR and CCPA rather than blocking visitors.