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Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper allows administrators to take a WordPress site offline while leaving it accessible to authorized users for maintenance, testing, etc.

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47 / 88 rows with source links

53.4% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

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Download Momentum

180 days
97 164 -40.9% 685

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0
how to allow access through only a few IPs?

how to allow access through only a few IPs?: users show security, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Got a question though that I want to limit access to a list of IPs, I setup blacklist as *.*.*.* and whitelist as the IPs allowed.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
[Plugin: Gatekeeper] BREAKS SITE

[Plugin: Gatekeeper] BREAKS SITE: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
[Plugin: Gatekeeper] BREAKS SITE This produced an error after install and I therefore deleted it immediately.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Update for 4.2.2?

Update for 4.2.2?: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
The “302 redirect” doesn’t work at all, and the “Replace page” function works only partially (site is replaced, but the external html can’t load css, js or php files – seems to be an issue with file paths).
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Error 302

Error 302: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Error 302 Hi, I’ve working on a site for a while now and have been using Gatekeeper to lock everything out.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Time out error

Time out error: users show bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Time out error The plugin is great, but makes the website veeery slow, with timeout errors.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
[Plugin: Gatekeeper] Site not coming back online

[Plugin: Gatekeeper] Site not coming back online: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
[Plugin: Gatekeeper] Site not coming back online Hi, I’m trying out Gatekeeper and it took my site offline perfectly.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Create a New Offline Page for Gatekeeper?

Create a New Offline Page for Gatekeeper?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
I don’t quite get how this works and I’m a WordPress webpage novice!
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.63
doesn’t work

doesn’t work: complaint conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
doesn’t work doesn’t work, this too. Any working plugin to really offline a site?? doesn’t work, this too. Any working plugin to really offline a site??
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Great plugin

Great plugin: users praise reliable, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Great plugin Works perfectly on WP 3.6 … saved me great time.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Kaboom

Kaboom: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Kaboom BLAM! Batman, this doesn’t work! BLAM! Batman, this doesn’t work!

Competitor Context

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Mihdan: Ajax Edit Comments praise owner · intel 77.4 · weakness 68.0
praise owner
stale update history 10 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: support-heavy site owners, agencies, and community operators · Wedge: triage repeated comment threads, failed replies, knowledge gaps, and escalation workload
source 1 source 2
User Domain Whitelist praise owner · intel 71.8 · weakness 62.6
praise owner
stale update history 21 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: membership site owners, agencies, and operations teams · Wedge: test registration roles, protected content, SSO/login handoffs, and private-data exposure
source 1 source 2
Maspik – Ultimate Spam Protection praise owner · intel 68.9 · weakness 51.9
praise owner
8 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test spam lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
Gravity Forms Email Blacklist praise owner · intel 65.1 · weakness 48.2
praise owner
8 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor gravity forms submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
source 1 source 2
BSK Forms Blacklist praise owner · intel 57.0 · weakness 35.8
praise owner
5 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test blacklist lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
Gravity Forms Block Email Domains praise owner · intel 57.0 · weakness 41.4
praise owner
stale update history 2 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor gravity forms submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
source 1 source 2
Comment Blacklist Updater praise owner · intel 52.1 · weakness 30.3
praise owner
4 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test spam lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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complaint Time out error support · 2016-12-14T11:26:22+00:00 · medium severity · blacklist

Time out error: users show bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Time out error The plugin is great, but makes the website veeery slow, with timeout errors.
bugs performance value quality trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
neutral IPv6? support · 2016-03-07T21:18:24+00:00 · low severity · blacklist

IPv6?: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: IPv6? Will Gatekeeper accept IPv6 addresses for whitelisting? https://wordpress.org/plugins/gatekeeper/ Will Gatekeeper accept IPv6 addresses for whitelisting? https://wordpress.org/plugins/gatekeeper/ Not immediately, but probably at some point in the future. The IPv4 filtering is basically a substring search for matches. IPv6 adds a whole new level of comp
trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint Update for 4.2.2? support · 2015-05-21T13:27:18+00:00 · medium severity · blacklist

Update for 4.2.2?: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The “302 redirect” doesn’t work at all, and the “Replace page” function works only partially (site is replaced, but the external html can’t load css, js or php files – seems to be an issue with file paths).
bugs compatibility reliable trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
question How can I add more than just one ip? support · 2015-01-16T21:41:21+00:00 · low severity · blacklist

How can I add more than just one ip?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is it possible to add more than just one IP in the white list?
missing feature trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint doesn’t work (1 star) review · 2014-07-15T18:05:38+00:00 · medium severity · blacklist

doesn’t work: complaint conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: doesn’t work doesn’t work, this too. Any working plugin to really offline a site?? doesn’t work, this too. Any working plugin to really offline a site??
trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
mixed Question: site offline – accidental logoff support · 2013-08-26T09:46:34+00:00 · low severity · blacklist

Question: site offline – accidental logoff: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It also has an option to auto-whitelist the IP address of the admin (based on the admin who last saved the config settings).
missing feature value login trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Great plugin (5 stars) review · 2013-08-21T21:35:36+00:00 · medium severity · blacklist

Great plugin: users praise reliable, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great plugin Works perfectly on WP 3.6 … saved me great time.
reliable value quality trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Kaboom (5 stars) review · 2013-08-14T17:47:04+00:00 · medium severity · blacklist

Kaboom: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Kaboom BLAM! Batman, this doesn’t work! BLAM! Batman, this doesn’t work!
trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint how to allow access through only a few IPs? support · 2013-06-21T15:54:48+00:00 · high severity · blacklist

how to allow access through only a few IPs?: users show security, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Got a question though that I want to limit access to a list of IPs, I setup blacklist as *.*.*.* and whitelist as the IPs allowed.
security compatibility missing feature setup trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
mixed Error 302 support · 2013-03-30T10:46:59+00:00 · medium severity · blacklist

Error 302: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error 302 Hi, I’ve working on a site for a while now and have been using Gatekeeper to lock everything out.
bugs compatibility support trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
mixed [Plugin: Gatekeeper] BREAKS SITE support · 2012-08-05T03:42:13+00:00 · medium severity · blacklist

[Plugin: Gatekeeper] BREAKS SITE: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [Plugin: Gatekeeper] BREAKS SITE This produced an error after install and I therefore deleted it immediately.
bugs compatibility support setup trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
mixed [Plugin: Gatekeeper] Site not coming back online support · 2012-08-02T18:28:30+00:00 · medium severity · blacklist

[Plugin: Gatekeeper] Site not coming back online: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [Plugin: Gatekeeper] Site not coming back online Hi, I’m trying out Gatekeeper and it took my site offline perfectly.
bugs support quality trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
mixed Create a New Offline Page for Gatekeeper? support · 2012-05-31T20:26:24+00:00 · medium severity · blacklist

Create a New Offline Page for Gatekeeper?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I don’t quite get how this works and I’m a WordPress webpage novice!
missing feature support reliable trust and abuse-prevention operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin