Create A Password Protected LIVE Development Staging Area

[@jherbison]

I use this on all new sites! Hope you enjoy the video. Let me know if you use a live staging area or development on localhost?

[@srdjagunjic]

Very clever, thanks for the video!

[@jherbison]

Thank you!

[@outpost31737]

Hey Joshua. I use Local it's fantastic for building WordPress platforms.

[@jherbison]

Yes, it is the fastest too, but just not as easy to share the progress with the client.

[@waaelg]

very helpful! thank you.

[@jherbison]

Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@farhansheikh3225]

I hope you make more videos this year

[@jherbison]

Going to try, KZbin doesn’t make it easy! Epidemic sound copyrighted my video for the intro I made almost 5 years ago. I paid them over $700 and used one song. 12 seconds from a 24 minute video.

[@christopherakins9452]

Looks like a good solution. Just curious how this approach differs or is better than using something like the Password Protected plugin by WPExperts or similar?

[@jherbison]

Some use prebuilt plugins and some like to build them. I like to build them to do exactly what I want them to do.

[@andrewferguson7859]

Interesting approach. I think storing any sensitive information in browser session storage is not a good practice. Don’t most hosting providers have functionality for securing access to a site? A site I support does, and I do not believe it is a mainstream hosting provider, so I would be surprised if other hosts did not have similar functionality. Assuming the hosting provider has the capability mentioned above, that would, in my view, be a better solution, as that would happen before anything from the site loads, regardless of if the site is WordPress based or some other platform. To me, something is better than nothing, but just be careful you understand the possible limits. For some sites, this is may not be much of a concern, but if someone really wants to get in, the session provides a potential attack surface.

[@jherbison]

The session isn't on the browser. It is on the server. Some systems do provide this ability, we like to do a lot of things with code that we control. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@andrewferguson7859]

@@jherbison thank you for the clarification. That makes the approach much more appealing to me, especially as you mentioned it is in code that we control, which does make it a bit more flexible.

[@onelook1870]

How to change login url?

[@GurunathPicks]

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