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Restricted Site Access
A tiny digital velvet rope for your private WordPress sites.
HealthyDeclining
84/100
The plugin provides simple IP restriction but carries a small risk of locking you out.
Active installs
~13,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.8★
62 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-21%
Declining
115 → 90 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -21% in the last year
115/day a year ago→90/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayRestricted Site Access is praised for its simple, reliable IP-based restriction and easy integration with page builders, though a few users report incompatibility with certain plugins and occasional lock-out issues.
What people like
- +Simple, minimalistic interface without unnecessary features×3
- +Works perfectly for restricting site access by IP address×3
- +Reliable over long term use
- +Compatible with WordPress 5.7 and PHP 7.4
- +Allows creation of maintenance or coming-soon pages using page builders×2
- +Useful for hiding staging or development sites
- +Quick to set up (few clicks)
Common complaints
- −Incompatible with the Ultimate Member plugin
- −Can lock the admin out when adding IPs or allowing logged-in users
- −No bulk IP address (CIDR) addition feature
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.77★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 62 total
Latest reviews · 62 analyzed
- 2025-08-12★★★★★Simple, effective and without unnecessary frillsOrsp
- 2025-04-09★★★★★Does the jobjendabek
- 2024-01-24★★★★★Great Plugin for Intranet/ExtranetHans-Gerd Gerhards
- 2023-08-08★★★★★Highly recommendedpf92
- 2022-09-12★★★★★great plugin!maoflager
- 2022-08-22★★★★★Nice workcon
- 2022-01-24★★★★★Terrific and reliable; please add bulk entryjonathanedwardmann
- 2021-05-10★★★★★Super Helpful ToolGobinda Tarafdar
- 2021-05-03★★★★★great pluginkineticartist
- 2020-10-26★★★★★Great plugin, works as expectedGregW
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
207
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
118
Prior 7-day baseline
316
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,075
Mean release-day peak (30d)
883
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+75.4%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.78
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
92%
5★ share in analyzed sample
8%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.79 → 4.77★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered