password protect your wordpress website

E.g. you want your temporary website not to be found by Google.

Then you can add a couple of lines to the .htaccess file and create a .htpasswd (to store the user credentials).

.htaccess

AuthType Basic 
AuthName "My Protected Folder" 
AuthUserFile /link-to-your-website-folder-above-public/.htpasswd 
require valid-user

Next create the .htpasswd and generate the content of that file (containing the username and password) using e.g. a htpasswd generator. E.g. this one.

test-user:{SHA}5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY=