mahalie

bump!

It would be really nice if the plugin offered configuration for login redirect. Requesting people to add code to their themes is really going to restrict the audience for this plugin. It’s really a nice plugin but could be more user friendly!

P.s. because your plugin isn’t providing a version number it’s creating an endless loop for the Plugin admin page – it always says:

View version 0.0 Details or upgrade automatically.

A little more work and this plugin will be a great addition. There’s some good privacy plugins out there but offering a 401 instead of the login page is a great option – would definitely keep unwanted bots and form spammers out.

The 404 works and it restricts feeds as well, however the authentication/login did not work for me. Behavior is exactly as Milber describes.

WP 2.9.1 (fresh install), permalinks on, Apache web server with PHP 5.5 (fast cgi). I wonder could it have to do with my .htaccess rules that automatically remove ‘www’ from the URL? I haven’t had any problems with other plug ins so far, testing a lot of privacy plug ins today. Thanks!

I have tried many plugins for making a site private – yes there are many. But so far Private WordPress is the perfect sweet spot of simple, effective and easy to configure. Thank you! I am using it to create documentation for clients on how to use their website (I install it on a sub-domain).

The only other one I’ve found that is as good (but was more than what I needed or wanted) is Absolute Privacy. It provides new user registration moderation and presents a ‘register for this site’ form instead of a log in form.

I just tried this out and it worked perfectly for me. (plugin 1.3.4, wp 2.9.1):

<p class="message">This site is private and available only to authorized users. <strong>Are you looking for <a href="https://publicsite.com">publicsite.com</a>?</strong></p>

Just installed this plugin (v. 1.3.4) on WordPress (2.9.1) – new install without many other plugins. Worked perfectly, including restriction of RSS (tested it). Thanks so much!! Plugin works as advertised with great screen feedback and clear configuration options.

Had this problem recently as well. Note, password correct (no password errors) simply couldn’t get past login screen. Clearing cookies, cache etc, didn’t solve anything. Even replaced install files.

This is what worked for me:

1. via ftp rename “wp-content” > “plugins” to “plugins_bak”
2. create new dir “plugins”
3. login to wp (which now worked for me)
4. via ftp remove empty “plugins” created in step 2
5. and rename “plugins_bak” back to “plugins”

The above is an easy first step to try (doesn’t hurt anything) before getting into re-installs and going into the DB. If it works for you all your plugins will be disabled so you’ll need to go to Plugins and re-enable those you want.

FWIW I tried everything, including disabling all plugins and the .htaccess rewrite. To no avail.

Compare the list of plugins…try disabling some. I have no idea if this will work but it’s one area where your two blogs on the same server/same WP version might differ.

TFG, this was making me crazy. In my case I write a lot of code examples and was trying to get some inline javascript to work.

I already use the WP Unformatted plugin to prevent smart-quotes and automatic formatting to screw things up.

Finally figured out it was WP trying to help:
Settings > Writing >
Uncheck WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically

After slogging through this thread and trying every possible fix I finally ran across advice to rename my plugins directory. This automatically disables all of your plugins. After that I was able to login.

Note: there are a lot of different causes to the login loop problem. First check to make sure you clearing all your cookies from your browser! If you were bad/lazy like me and upgraded without disabling your plugins you should try renaming the plugin directory.

I am still having this problem. I have tried deleting cookies and logging in from different computers with different browsers – Firefox, IE & Safari. Will report if solution is found, so far none. Perhaps my domain rewrite rule not allowing www. may have some influence?

Here’s a plugin to automate redirects:
https://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

It doesn’t use .htaccess, functions entirely within wordpress but does what I was speaking about with the bonus of tracking 404 errors for you and some other nifty stuff.

Enrico/ollerwe,

You’re looking for custom 404 error pages, and you can put a redirect link on those.

Dave is talking about redirecting a page link in WordPress. An example you might want to do this is that you install a message board on a subdomain, so discuss.yourblog.com. You want to use WordPress to manage your menus and all that nice stuff so you create a page called ‘Message Board’ and now you need to redirect the WP-generated page yourblog.com/message-board to discuss.yourblog.com automatically.

You can use a redirect statement in your header as Dave offers. I think that if you have access to writing your own .htaccess directives it would be more efficient/faster for the site/user to create and .htaccess redirect. This may be a little advanced those unfamiliar with apache servers but it pretty easy to do.

I am looking for a plugin that simply does what I describe above but within the admin GUI. Anyone?