wpmirwin

I have a similar problem (i.e. the slug ‘wp-login’ takes you to the login page) and thought I’d add a few comments.

@kitcummings – Your solution to not use the hide feature in iThemes Security and use ‘WPS Hide Login’ is still not complete. The problem is when someone tries to use /register.php directly. Try it. You’ll see that it doesn’t work. It redirects and shows your “secret” login slug in the URL. register.php IS handled properly in iThemes Security BTW.

So, both plugins have a weakness so to speak. WPS Hide Login doesn’t handle register.php properly, and iThemes Security doesn’t handle wp-login properly.

I feel that it’s kind of a shame that iThemes had to go and change this feature. They removed the ability to set a the Register and Admin slug, as well as the secret key.

Also @dwinden, you say that the plugin works fine. It doesn’t work for me and I’m running a fairly vanilla WP install on my own hardware. The suggested .htaccess fixes haven’t worked for me, so I’ve actually reverted back to my last backup of the original bit51 plugin, which works just fine. Agreed that this feature is security by obscurity, but it does help.

BTW, the original plugin admin page for “Hide” is can be seen here “https://managewp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Better-WP-Security-4.png”

This works great. Thanks for posting it!

Hi .. Me again.

So, I jumped the gun on this one. I hadn’t turned everything off. Better WP Security was still enabling SSL for the Admin area, and this is what was breaking Buddy Press.

I’m now looking into this a separate issue.

Thanks,
Mike.

Hi,

First off, great plugin! LOADED with features.

However, the same thing is happening to me. I *was* using limit login attempts, and the pink area displayed above the login form would say “ERROR: Incorrect username or password. n attempts remaining”. I expected something similar from Better WP security, but all that is displayed is the pink area (no text).

Then, after the configured number of failed login attempts, you get a blank page with the word “error” at the top left. You also can’t access other pages on the site that normally would not require authentication / authorization – i.e. you just get the same blank “error” page. This is actually a neat feature, but ideally I’d like to be able to turn it on or off – i.e. just prevent additional login attempts – not lock out the entire site.. like limit login attempts would do.

Anyway…. My “asks” for Chris are:

1). Add text to the pink area that is displayed above the login form. “ERROR: Incorrect username or password. n attempts remaining”.

2). Allow for the entire site to be locked out (i.e. the current “error” page behaviour), or just not allow additional login attempts (the “limit login attempts” flavour of doing things).

Thanks! And if you need anything from me to help get this done, just let me know.

Regards,
Mike.

@ Rev. Voodoo.

Thanks! I used your code, and dropped it into my theme’s functions.php as suggested. This is the cleanest way to handle it. Thanks!

Mike.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the great support, and for the great plugin! I really appreciate how quickly you were able to help. Everything is working well now.

Best regards,
Mike.

Hi Mike,

Ok. I just send you more details via your support contact form.

Thank-you.

Mike.

Hello Mike,

Thanks for responding. Yes, the entities are showing on the web pages themselves and in the email messages.

The odd thing is that *some* of them are being displayed as a proper apostrophe. i.e. in the “Welcome Introduction” text, it is displayed properly. But, pretty much everywhere else, they are not (i.e. “Optional Email Subject List”, all autoresponder text, etc, etc.

As I mentioned, this wasn’t happening prior to the WordPress and/or the FS Contact form upgrade.

NOTE: It could have been 2 versions ago that this happened, but I just didn’t notice.

Is it possible to make an older version of the FS Contact form available so I can test it? I can’t seem to find older versions of the plugin anywhere.

Regards,
Mike.

P.s. The site is for my kids, and even read access is password protected. If you want to take a look, I can setup an account, but would obviously prefer to do that via email.

Hello,

I’m also having a problem with apostrophes. Everything was fine, but since upgrading to WordPress 3.1.4 and/or the latest version of FS Contact Form, anywhere that there was an apostrophe, it’s now replaced with '

NOTE: Below I’ve separated the characters with spaces in case it doesn’t show up correctly.

& a p o s ;

This has happened in all the fields such as “Optional email subject list”, “Custom email from”, etc, etc.

If I try to manually correct the text, after saving, it is again replaced with “'” … ” & a p o s ; “

If you have time to look at this problem, let me know.. I can send whatever information is required.

Best regards,
Mike.

This fix:

“$result = $request->request($calUrl, array(‘sslverify’ => false));”

also worked for me.

Thanks!

Hello,

Thanks very much for the quick replies!

bh_WP_fan, you were right. The only file included as a directory index was index.html. After adding index.php as a directory index in my httpd.conf file, everything worked properly.

Thanks again, and have a good day!

Mike.