Thanks for the heads up, I had not thought of that. The plugin will block/redirect all traffic to the site expect traffic to the login page and admin section. In many cases where I have used the plugin I actually want to block the entire page, but it might be a good idea to add a setting for allowing XMLRPC and Atom.
Yeah – It would be nice to have check-boxes allowing users to enable and disable blocking of XML-RPC, and Atom. Also, it would be nice if we could allow the RSS feeds through as well. One thing I have used the plugin for is hiding pre-production sites from the public, but of course you can’t post from the mobile app if the plugin is enabled.
Also, some people I have spoken to wanted to use it so that their WP install would act a bit like an API, with no front end, but a back end CMS and RSS to get content out. Of course, they can’t do that at the moment.
Thanks for your time.
I just released version 1.0.1 with added support for enabling RSS and Atom feeds, I hope that solves your problem. Unfortunately XML-RPC will require some more research so I didn’t have time to add that today, but I’ll hopefully be able to get it done soon.
Pre-production sites as in deed my main area of use as well. I guess todays update would enable you to run a basic RSS/Atom based API using Logged in, but I think for more advanced setups you would probably want to do the redirecting/blocking yourself. But again, the (fairly undocumented) filters in Logged in might prove useful when it comes to deciding how to handle unapproved page loads.
Thanks, Simon. I will try and push the update through soon ish, and that is a big help. I completely understand your issue with XML-RPC – I wouldn’t enjoy doing that either. I did get around the issues by putting the blocking right in the theme, which of course allowed RSS and XML-RPC though, but this should be done with a plugin.
Thanks again for your swift responses and help. Angus.
Hi again. Just had a look at XML-RPC, and since all communication is directed at an XML-RPC endpoint located at wordpress/xmlrpc.php is was pretty straight forward. I haven’t pushed it to the WordPress plugins directory yet, thought I’d do some more testing first.
I really appreciate it if you could do a test using the latest version of the plugin, which you can get at my github repo (direct download link), since I’m not that experienced with using XML-RPC or the WordPress iPhone app. Directory should probably be renamed logged-in before running, or at least not be allowed to coexists with another version of the plugin.
I will try and get that going ASAP, but my conditions aren’t ideal – I have direct access to my server only twice a week, and the rest of the time I have to try and get around the proxies at College that block :22 and :21, which are both kinda important. Thanks anyway for helping. If I find an issue, or something else like that, where will be the most convenient place for me to tell you??
I understand. I you find an issue, please send me an email at simon [at] dessibelle.se. Thanks!
