[Plugin: MD5 Password Hashes] Does not work on 2.8.4?

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Though I can’t see why you’d want to revert to using MD5 hashes for password security. It’s not as secure as the new protocols WordPress is using …

reason is because I have a application in VB .Net, where you log into the application and it uses the wordpress user database, its easy to encrypt in MD5 in vb .net, but with phpass, salting, blowfish encryption and the works in the protocol its quite difficult to convert the new encryption into code to encrypt passwords in VB .Net.

Weird i tried reverting back to 2.7 then i was like i’ll just stay with 2.8 and upgraded again and the plugin started working with 2.8 -_- ,

maybe I could have forgotten to deactivate all plugins before upgrading?

I get it now. I’ve had problems integrating WordPress with .NET solutions in the past for the same reason. I’m glad the plug-in started working again. Too bad we don’t know what happened, thought.

spoke to soon, woke up this morning logged in, then checked the user tables in Navicat, and there back to phpass. Deleted wordpress and installed 2.8.4, using the existing database, re uploaded the plugin.Activated it, and no luck looks like I’ll have to wait for an update before I can upgrade to 2.8 again.

So back to 2.7 or time to find another method.

EDIT: i deleted everything i had wordpress related including the old database, re-install went smoothly first thing i did was add the MD5 plugin, activated it, then registered a new user on a different email checked navicat and its in MD5 all seems good, hope i dont wake up and its changed again.

I really don’t have a clue whats happening (fingers crossed all stays well).

So probably somewere down the line I must of done something wrong.

i found the issue, its due to conflicting plugins

heres what I did

i deactivated everything(all the plugins), reactivated MD5(only) , all passwords went back to MD5, then I activated simplepress forum , checked database still MD5.

then I activated the Maintenance Mode Plugin and checked the database and it was back to phpass, so the problem occurs when maintenance mode plugin is activated.

So to calrify for everyone, MD5 hashes plugin works on 2.8.4 but when used in conjuction with Maintenance Mode plugin it reverts to phpass even if you activate and deactivate MD5.

Solution to this problem is if you are using the Maintenance Mode completely deactivate it, then deactivate and reactivate MD5 hashes and your all good!