Comments on: WordPress Password 0.6

By: Dash

Dash — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:40:19 +0000

JB – got the same problem as Christian running WordPress 2.8.4 . Let me know if you figure out a quick fix. Thanks!

By: ATL

ATL — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:16:11 +0000

Hi JB-

Sorry to bother you, I was able to delete the file from my hosting account and restore access. Thanks again for the plugin!

By: ATL

ATL — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:06:03 +0000

Hi JB-

Thanks so much for this plugin, it is exactly what we were looking for to pw protect the whole site for a couple weeks. I installed it, put in a password, left the directories section blank, to protect the root site, and now can’t pull up my website at all. It is directing me to a wp-admin/plugins.php site but it just says “waiting” and won’t load. Do you have any ideas on how to get past this? Am I going to have to uninstall wordpress and loose everything?

Thanks!

By: JIm Marcum

JIm Marcum — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:51:28 +0000

Thanks for your reply. I teach an online course for Elmhurst College and find the blog format really works well. I have used Typepad up until I got my own domain and now I use WordPress. My side panel has a category called, “Videos,” which has links to several videos that I stream using the Helix server from Real Networks. I password the blog so that only the students taking the class can view both the blog and its video links. Your earlier password plugin worked very well for that, but prevented scheduled posts from posting. I will take a look at http://www.amember.com as you suggest. Thanks again for your suggestion. By the way, the newest version of your plugin seemed to work quite well, just not for my needs.

Jim Marcum
Associate Director for Academic computing
Elmhurst College

By: JB

JB — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:29:23 +0000

Hi Jim,

I haven’t tested it for compatibility with scheduled posts, nor other media types (videos, etc). In fact, if the video is just an embedded swf object, I’m sure this plugin *won’t* protect it – it only works on pages that WordPress handles (and even then, not perfectly, as seen with the scheduled post problem)

You might want to take a look at Amember (www.amember.com) for managing subscriptions and protecting parts of a site – I use it in another project and it works pretty well – even has an additional plugin ($) to integrate with WordPress.

This WP Password plugin was really thrown together to solve a very limited problem, and may not be the best solution for everyone.

By: Jim Marcum

Jim Marcum — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:22:14 +0000

I am using 0.4.7, the second version of the plugin, but what happens with both of them is that my scheduled posts will not post. If I deactivate the password plugin, the scheduled posts work fine, but if I re-activate it, they quit working. I tried your test version, but it only protects my posts, not the site. Perhaps I missed something, but I need the site protected. I have copyrighted video on the side-panel which version .6 did not password protect. Have you had other complaints about the scheduled posts not working with the password plugin? I would be interested in knowing if you have tested it for that problem.

I have WordPress 2.8, I thought by upgrading from 2.7 I might solve the scheduled posting problem, but, alas, I didn’t. I hope this feedback is helpful.

Thanks,
Jim Marcum