GatePass — Secure Content Lock & Password Protection for WooCommerce, Pages, and Private Sites

Description

GatePass Password Protection is a secure, lightweight, and SEO-friendly WordPress plugin designed to lock your website or specific content behind a professional password gate.

Whether you need to hide a staging site from search engine crawlers, share private client drafts, restrict access to member-only content, set up an « under construction » page, or secure premium WooCommerce products, GatePass has you covered.

Unlike other bloated plugins, GatePass loads fast, uses clean WordPress standards, and allows you to manage all your passcodes from a central, modern settings page.

Full WooCommerce Integration:

GatePass fully supports WooCommerce store locking out-of-the-box. You can:
* Protect your entire shop or wholesale catalog from unauthorized visitors.
* Password-protect individual specific products (Pro) or all products globally (Free).
* Lock specific WooCommerce product categories, tags, or attributes dynamically (Pro).

Major Use Cases:

• Staging & Development Sites: Secure your development environment from public eyes and bots.
• Client Project Previews: Share draft pages, portfolios, or layouts with clients securely.
• WooCommerce Store Protection: Password-protect wholesale catalogs, custom products, or your entire store.
• Under Construction / Coming Soon: Lock your pages during updates while allowing administrators to bypass the lock screen.
• Private Portals: Create simple intranets, student sections, or member directories.

Free Features

• Full Website Lock: Instantly secure your entire website behind a single passcode gate.
• Global Post Type Protection: Protect all standard posts, pages, or WooCommerce products globally in one click.
• Role-Based Bypass: Automatically whitelist logged-in user roles (like Administrators and Editors) to bypass the lock screen.
• Login Page Customizer: Upload your company logo, choose custom background & text colors, and write your own headings.
• Shortcode Block Generator: Wrap specific sections of your text using [gatepass-password-protection] to lock partial page content.
• 1 Magic Access Link: Generate one secure bypass URL (valid for up to 5 entries) to share instant access without requiring a password.
• Active Session Control: Configure passcode session cookie lifespans (e.g. keep users unlocked for 24 hours).
• SEO-Friendly crawling blocker: Employs header instructions to block search engine indexing of locked areas.

Pro Features

Upgrade to GatePass Pro to unlock ultimate content control and advanced client management options:
* Centralized Password Manager: Create and manage unlimited unique passwords from a single admin screen.
* Automatic Password Expiration: Set date and time rules to automatically expire access passcodes.
* Individual Content Protection: Protect specific page/post/product IDs instead of locking them globally.
* Granular Taxonomy & Category Protection: Password-protect entire categories, tags, or custom WooCommerce taxonomies.
* Teaser & Blur Effect: Display a beautiful blurred text preview behind the lock screen to build user curiosity.
* Public Bypass Exclusions: Keep specific landing pages, blogs, or contact forms public while locking the rest of your site.
* IP Whitelisting & CIDR Support: Let your office network or specific IP addresses bypass the password check.
* Geo-IP Location Protection: Restrict content access or block visitors based on their country.
* Anti-Spam CAPTCHA Protection: Stop brute-force bots using Google reCAPTCHA v2 or Cloudflare Turnstile.
* Passcode Access Requests Dashboard: Let visitors submit passcode requests directly from the lock screen. Review, approve, reject, or delete requests via AJAX, and send automatic custom email notifications to requestors.
* Global Session Invalidation: Instantly force-logout all active visitor sessions with one click.

External Services

This plugin can optionally connect to or load third-party external services to provide security, geolocation, and license management functionality. These services perform processing on external servers that cannot be done locally:

1. Freemius SDK (For license activation, pricing checks, automatic updates, and billing support)

* Service Link: https://freemius.com
* Terms of Use: https://freemius.com/terms/
* Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

1. Google reCAPTCHA (Optional anti-spam check for lock screen forms)

* Service Link: https://www.google.com/recaptcha
* Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
* Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

1. Cloudflare Turnstile (Optional anti-spam check for lock screen forms)

* Service Link: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/
* Terms of Use: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/
* Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

1. IP-API.com (Optional Geo IP lookup fallback for country restrictions)

* Service Link: https://ip-api.com
* Terms of Use: https://ip-api.com/docs/terms
* Privacy Policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/privacy

1. IPInfo.io (Optional Geo IP lookup fallback for country restrictions)

* Service Link: https://ipinfo.io
* Terms of Service: https://ipinfo.io/terms-of-service
* Privacy Policy: https://ipinfo.io/privacy-policy

1. IPAPI.co (Optional Geo IP lookup fallback for country restrictions)

* Service Link: https://ipapi.co
* Terms of Service: https://ipapi.co/terms/
* Privacy Policy: https://ipapi.co/privacy/