Brainspill

Minor update to the WP-Password plugin I’ve let languish. I think I’ve fixed the redirect bug.

http://www.broome.us/wp-password/wp-password_0_6_1.zip

You’re welcome to try it out. Update the comments with any bug reports, ideas, complaints, etc.

Future plans might involve integrating WP 2.7 (and later) internal password protection to provide a better UI, handling it’s inherent per-page/post nature better (Default value, etc). Preliminary checking looks like it’ll take some changes to the WP Core to really work well, but I’ve been known to think on problems like that slowly for a while and suddenly come up with a solution… we’ll see.

Careful when updating a heavily modified WP install. I hosed my install, had to try over again several times, finally up and running and picked a new theme.
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