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Your message is somewhat unclear. However, it looks like you may be having a conflict with a cache plugin or something, or at least that’s my best guess.

What other plugins are installed?

Make sure the .htaccess file is writable by PHP, this typically means 644 permissions on most servers, but you may need to temporarily change it to 664 and then change it back after updating the file.

I have not tested the plugin in a multi-site environment. However, I’m also not sure why there would be an issue. I will try and look into this for you soon.

This has to be a conflict with your theme or another plugin as this is not something I am able to duplicate and other users have not reported similar issues.

This is not something I am able to duplicate on my end.

The only thing I can tell you is that your server is very old. WordPress is optmized for PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 is the current stable version.

Nevertheless, you can use the contact form on my website and give me more specific details of your site and configuration if you want me to investigate this further.

Users should be able to Logout the normal way in WordPress.

In the upper right side it will say something like ‘Howdy, Name’. If you hover over this, there will be a Logout button.

In all of my testing, this button seems to work as it normally should.

Something like this:

<a href="#" onclick="show_loginbar(); return false;">Login</a>

will work. Just put it wherever you want it. You can replace the ‘Login’ text with an image.

Yes! Secure Hidden Login has several options. Check Settings -> Secure Hidden Login within your WordPress Admin.

My favorite is the π (pi) symbol in the bottom right side of the screen much like the logo made famous by the movie ‘The Net’ with Sandra Bullock.

Thank for using the plugin, and for this comment. I will try to compensate for this issue in v1.0.0 coming soon!

After looking into this further, I think that this may have been an issue with my ‘edit box’ labels that seem to be broken in WordPress 3.8 or possibly newer versions of Chrome.

v1.0.0 will use the HTML5 ‘placeholder’ attribute in the input boxes to mark the first one as ‘Username’ and the second one as ‘Password’ This will condense everything and center it better, and may fix your issue,

Look for v1.0.0 soon.

I am marking this as resolved, but if for any reason you still want explain the issue as I said earlier, please do!

As I mentioned, I will be looking into this further. However, as an alternative, keep in mind that you could manually edit your .htaccess file and add this:

(changing apexad.net to your own domain of course)

# BEGIN Secure Login
<FilesMatch “wp-login.php”>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*wp-iphone.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*wp-android.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www.)?apexad.net [NC]
RewriteRule .* – [F]
</FilesMatch>
# END Secure Login

It’s possible that the permissions are wonky and the plugin just cannot read your .htaccess file or something else is going wrong.

As I think I may have mentioned in other responses, my goal is to possibly remove the depend on the .htaccess file in a new release (v1.0.0) coming soon. At the very least, I will make sure to make it so the plugin can be deactivated if it cannot find the .htaccess file if this is what you are saying is happening.

If you know your .htaccess file is clean of Secure Hidden Login code, you can always just rename the plugin folder and WordPress will auto deactivate the plugin.

I’m not sure what you mean? The Menu bar has ‘Username’ and ‘Password’ edit boxes and then the Login and Forgot Password buttons. That entire block should be centered.

If it is not, something within the theme you are running is overriding some of my CSS.

Please try to explain what you are trying to do. If possible, provide screenshots or links to the site in question too, so I can look at it and see what’s going wrong.

Lastly, just want to mention that I am working on an update for this plugin, and one of the new things will be filters which will allow custom theme developers to override the display of various parts of the plugin. This may make it easier to make this change as well (although I’m not clear on your question).

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.

What BOCo23 said is correct.

However, keep in mind it’s Ctrl+L or Alt+L, not both keys. That could have been the issue.

I strongly advise you to read a Plugins FAQ before posting in the support forums (since there is already an answer to this question there). My answer is to simply upload a ‘Emergency Login Page’ as the .htaccess code in v0.9 is basically just checking the referrer.

As a final note, I am working on a new version, and it’s my hope to make it so this ‘lock out’ scenario can be easily fixed. Look for v1.0.0 within the next month or so.

Sorry it took me so long to respond to this support question.

This has to be an issue with whatever host you are using, as this is good .htaccess code that should work with all hosts.

It’s possible your host is not even using Apache, and has a patch to simply ignore a default wordpress .htaccess file or something.

At any rate, I’m back to update my plugin (V1.0.0 should be coming out within the next month or so .. and it’s a MAJOR re-write). I will try to look into loosening the dependency on .htaccess a little more.