I’ve been using a lot of landing pages recently (if you haven’t noticed) and even last night I was using one as I swapped out the theme for ChurchCrunch (you can view it here still).
Well, someone asked me how I was accomplishing this and the answer is easy: The Members Only WordPress Plugin.
Seriously, this plugin is awesome because it does exactly what I need it to do; a strategic redirect to either my login page or a specific page of my choosing.
Check out this screencap of the simple admin:

I’ve found it to be super easy and it’s now one of my “must installs” for every new blog site that I have.
Digging it.

agree.. I love love love it.
good thing i asked…you’d be short a blog post
haha. yeah. thanks for that. good post material.
Very cool. I was trying to figure out how to do this a couple months ago when I was switching my theme. I’ll check this out!
sweet! it’s been super helpful.
using it tonight…here…http://beaconhillnw.com/brb/
link fail.
diggin your theme your using Jim
Nice find! I can think of several uses for it already.
sweet! rock it.
exactly what I was looking for! thanks a bunch.
now I am looking for a plugin where I can change the WP logo on the login screen to somethin else.
sweet!