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Notes

When the plugin is inactive, or active but a password has not been set, no password is required.

The password gets reset automatically when the plugin is activated.

Your WP-Admin Administrator password is still required to reach your WP Admin. This WP-Password plugin just adds an extra layer of password requirement before you can reach WP-admin (remember, it affects ALL WP powered pages).

Forgot Your Password?

1. FTP into your plugins/wp-password folder
2. Delete wp-password.php
3. Log in to your wp admin, view the plugins page (notice WordPress Password is missing now)
4. Re-upload wp-password.php
5. Re-activate the WordPress Password plugin. Activating it resets the password.
6. Visit Options|Wordpress Password and set a new password.

Features

• ver 0.4
  • Fixed use for sites not on port 80
  • Changed redirection code from header to javascript
  • Fixed use for sites aliasing the blog directory
• ver 0.3
  • New features: Logout and Include/Exclude.
• ver 0.2
  • Bug fixes, no new features.
• ver 0.1
  • You can define a single password to protect an entire site.
  • Password is set via the "Password" subpanel in the Options menu after activation
  • Exclusions allow you to specify certain pages of your site to be password-free.

Questions/Suggestions/Bugs

Visit http://broome.us/wp-password to find my blog entry about the WordPress Password plugin where you can post comments/suggestions/bugs.

Version History

• 0.4 - 2008-01-09
  • Fixed use for sites not on port 80
  • Changed redirection code from header to javascript
  • Fixed use for sites aliasing the blog directory
• 0.3 - 2007-02-24
  • Added Logout and Include/Exclude features per request.
  • Added Logout option: visit any WP powered url of your site with this value pair in the querystring: wp-password-logout=true e.g. http://mysite.com/myWppage/?wp-password-logout=true The logout function clears any cookie password value saved and then refreshes the browser.
  • Added the choice to either Exclude certain urls from password protection (default) or Include certain urls (excluding all others). This is controlled by the Exclude/Include radiobutton in the admin page.
• 0.2 - 2007-02-02
  • Fixed bugs:
    • excluded items weren't forced to match beginning of urls, so it was possible to see protected urls by adding a querystring that included an excluded url. Bad.
    • some special regex characters weren't properly escaped when evaluating exclusions (.,)
  • added wp-password-debug=1 querystring option for troubleshooting what's happening on a page. Ruins redirects, but useful.
• 0.1 - 2007-01-31
  • Initial (public) release.

Show Your Support

If you like the WordPress Password plugin and want to give me a pat on the back, a kind word, a suggestion, etc., I welcome your visit to my web site: Broome.us/wp-password