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tomdiggle/craft-gatekeeper
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Protect your Craft CMS website from access with a universal password.

1.2.1(5y ago)109.3k3[2 issues](https://github.com/tomdiggle/craft-gatekeeper/issues)MITPHP

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Gatekeeper plugin for Craft CMS 3.x
===================================

[](#gatekeeper-plugin-for-craft-cms-3x)

Protect your Craft CMS website from access with a universal password.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0 or later.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    ```
     cd /path/to/project

    ```
2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    ```
     composer require tomdiggle/craft-gatekeeper

    ```
3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Gatekeeper.

Configure
---------

[](#configure)

To congifure the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the Gatekeeper icon.
2. Then enter the password required to access the website and click save.

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

Brought to you by [Tom Diggle](http://tomdiggle.com)

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance16

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity29

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 83.3% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~118 days

Recently: every ~152 days

Total

9

Last Release

2050d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/191121?v=4)[Tom Diggle](/maintainers/tomdiggle)[@tomdiggle](https://github.com/tomdiggle)

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Top Contributors

[![tomdiggle](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/191121?v=4)](https://github.com/tomdiggle "tomdiggle (35 commits)")[![boscho87](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11815871?v=4)](https://github.com/boscho87 "boscho87 (3 commits)")[![inbn](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9019720?v=4)](https://github.com/inbn "inbn (3 commits)")[![st-mcd](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46502452?v=4)](https://github.com/st-mcd "st-mcd (1 commits)")

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Tags

craftcraft-plugincraftcmsgatekeepercmsgatekeeperCraftcraftcmscraft-plugin

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