Angsuman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin - Password Protection for Your WordPress Blog

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Hey I was testing this code, and if you are not registered, you CAN’T Register. If you log out, and try to register, it wants you to login to be able to access it.

Can you fix this?

It has been fixed. Please download again.

@Tin
Yes.

Hi this is actually just a stupid ass guestion. If someone has fast solution please tell me. So I use this plugin and it seeeeems great! Only thing that i would like it to do is not take member to it’s profile page, i would like it to go straight into the mainsite. Any easy solution for that?, thanks!

It is supposed to re-direct. Check for a demonstration on http://test.taragana.net/

Can you check again after disabling all your other plugins. Let me know if that helps.

Have you made any modifications to core WP installation at all?

Sorry - It happens with FireFox 1.5 Beta 2. Redirect works just fine with IE.

Thanks!

I’m having the same problem as Teresa. The redirect doesn’t work on my Mac with Safari or FF 1.5 - don’t know about IE (don’t care).

Thanks.

Ben & others (facing the intermediate page issue),

The problem has been fixed as per suggestions by an user (details in the article). Please update your version and let me know.

Best,
Angsuman

Andrius,

I have a version in testing which allows fine-grained control over what you want under password protection. That should solve your problem.

Hey,

Can’t use the plug-in.
I get trouble with this message :

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: nocache_headers() in … /Blog/wp-content/plugins/ac_authenticator.php on line 17

Can you help me ?
Thanks
A+++++++++++

HI i have this problem.
I active the plugin and it’s all ok.
I’m not logged and he ask me to loggin
http://www.mywebsit.com/blog/wp-login.php?redirect_to=%2Fblog%2F
I try to connect but it answer me error. The redirect creates an error.

I have my websit in http://www.mywebsite.com/blog and it redirect me on http://www.mywebsite.com/blog//blog/

it redirect me to
http://www.mywebsite.com/gallery/wp-login.php?user=2&session= … e&referrer=http://www.mywebsite.com/blog//blog/

I have copperime 3.9 activated if deactive it all work
http://mvdkwast.free.fr/stilglog/index.php/wordpress-plugins/coppermine-plugin/

What I can Do?
help me please.

@macsou
You can comment out/delete that line.

@dafebe
Apparently coppermine alters some global variable in its plugin. I would have to look into the copermine coded to determine what they are exactly doing.

TNX man!!!
this error there is only for admin

here you can downlod it
http://mvdkwast.free.fr/stilglog/files/coppermine-3.9.zip

and I think the file that give error is into coppermine-3.9\cpg\1.4x

very very TNX!!!!

hi

a couple of questions - the plugin looked ideal for what i need. I downloaded and activated it. now when I go to the blog i just see a white page in the browser - no errors just a white screen. So I read a little further in this posts comments and you mention that you have a selectable content protection plugin. Can you advise/point me in the right direction on either of these please.

with kind regards

Mike

Hey, I just downloaded this today and was trying to get it to work, but it doesn’t redirect to the log-in page for some reason. The only thing it does is give a blank page with this on it:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\quietindweller\index.php:2) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\quietindweller\wp-content\plugins\ac_authenticator.php on line 18

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\quietindweller\index.php:2) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\quietindweller\wp-content\plugins\ac_authenticator.php on line 20

If you can help; I’d appreciate it very much.

I’m using WP 2.0.1

Please provide me the site url.
Is guest a created user?

yahoo.com - sorry.

Please send it to angsuman[at]taragana[dot]com

Let me clarify. The feed link on the WP page does require a password to use. But, a user can manually type in the exact URL of the wp-rss2.php file and read the feed without using a password. I guess the question is, “How do I completely protect the feed to prevent this type of access?” Maybe .htaccess restriction?

A simpler solution for you would be to rename the wp-rss2.php file and similarly change the name wherever it is referenced in code. This is called security by obscurity

Angsuman,

could you tell us when approximately a new version of the plugin will be available. a version which would allow users to subsribe to RSS/Atom feeds.

Thanks

Angsuman, I have the same problem of Fred and John, my blog is protected but i can’t see the main page of the blog… i only can see the wp-admin/ page!… do you have a solution?!

Thanks!, elisa

Hi, great plugin! A solution for the RSS-issues would be very appreciated. I want to share RSS only with registered users.

Thanks

Hello,

This looks great… but I can’t get it to work on WP1.5 - I’m getting the “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: nocache_headers() in … /Blog/wp-content/plugins/ac_authenticator.php on line 17″ error.

Can this be fixed?

If I comment out nocache_headers then I can’t view my blog at all

Look forward to getting this working!

Cheers,

James

[...] [...]

I encountered some errors, similar to those noted by other commentors. I made the following changes to the plugin and it now seems to work in WordPress 1.5.2.

change


if ( (!empty($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE]) &&
!wp_login($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE], $_COOKIE[PASS_COOKIE], true)) ||
(empty($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE])) ) {
nocache_headers();


to


if ( (!empty($_COOKIE['wordpressuser_' . COOKIEHASH]) &&
!wp_login($_COOKIE['wordpressuser_' . COOKIEHASH], $_COOKIE['wordpresspass_' . COOKIEHASH], true)) ||
(empty($_COOKIE['wordpressuser_' . COOKIEHASH])) ) {
//nocache_headers();


[...] Page du plugin sur le site de l’Auteur [...]

Thanks, Harvey!
Forgive my ignorant question, but where does this code go?

Hmm. It gives me a parse error on line 14…

Iim looking at your plugin and it looks great but do you have a version that does the following:?

The user can view the blog as a ‘guest’ but only see say 30 words (a variable that can be changed by admin). The user has to click on the 30 words (a link) to see the full artical, then the username/password screen appears. If the username and password are correct they can see the full artical.

This is a feature that i urgently need. Any Help?

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Great plugin, thanks. I’m using our blog as a resource site for sales reps, so it’s a perfect solution to keeping confidential info under wraps.

I’m concerned, however, because after logging in, somtimes I’m directed to the blog, and sometimes to the admin panel (but I can’t figure a way to replicate one result or the other. This seems to be happening to me in both Firefox and IE). I think this is the same problem Fred was having, but I can’t tell from the comments what the solution was.

I’ve looked at the plugin code, but I don’t know enough to figure out where or how to fix this. Any ideas?

if i log in as admin, i’m redirected to the admin page. if i click on “view site,” i stay on the same page. if someone registers, he or she is directed to the profile page. when an attempt is made to click on “view site,” the user is stuck on the profile page. any ideas? thank you.

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One difficulty I can’t resolve: if /blog is protected by the plugin then /blog/file.zip or /blog/anydir/file.zip are not, and if one types the address one can quite happily download the file without any authentication. Is there a way to protect such a file from download?

Tell them to clear the browser cache and try again.

Looking forward to the Pro Plugin. How soon is soon:)

I run into the same issue as others that after logging in the visitor is re-directed to the profile page instead of the posts. I hope the Pro version will help in this case.

Actually, if possible I would like an option that access of a logged in user to be totally limited to reading posts and have no other rights at all (or only of seeing his profile) so he won’t be bothered with all the rest of the dashboard which is of no use to the user anyway.

Anyway, the plugin is really great already and I am looking forward to future versions. Thanks

I’ve having trouble, similar to dafebe’s.

If I goto

https://domain.com/blog/wp-login.php

it logs me into the wp admin panel without any problems

but if I goto

https://domain.com/blog

it changes the url to

https://domain.com/blog/wp-login.php?redirect_to=%252Fblog%252F

if I log in using that url I (obviously) get the message

The requested URL /blog/2Fblog2F was not found on this server.

Any ideas?

Ce script est tout à fait génial. Merci beaucoup pour cet apport à WP. Il fonctionne bien avec tous les navigateurs sur Mac.

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I agree with Mathijs. It would be awesome if you could use this plugin to make only certain sections/post/pages inaccessible to unregistered users, instead of the entire blog.

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I have just installed your plugin on a new blog I am doing and first - thank you!

II ave a question, though - My feed reader (netnewswire) does not pull the posts even though I have the correct password …

I click on the RSS button in Safari, the feed gets added, but no posts appear.

… I have no doubt that this is user error- any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

Again, thank you. Without this plugin, I wouldn’t have been able to have published my new blog.

–Jim

People can still click the ‘register’ link and access the site. Can I just take off the ‘register’ link from the page?

I want to make this a paid membership blog where I manually create each user.

Thanks,

Scott….

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@Scott,

We will be supporting it in the next version.

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[...] Anyway, these novel logs (and other writings) won’t be public and will be for special interested, so most of the site will be for logged in users only. I’ve used Angsuman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin for this purpose together with the “hide this site from the nasty robots” option that comes with WPMU. [...]

We are working on a much better version of the plugin. We plan to release it in the first week of December.

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Exactly what I was looking for to set up a private sandbox area. Thanks for the excellent work. I’ve never had a problem with your plugins.

It works with WordPress 2.1.

Hi- I’m curious about what happens to all of the data collected from users? Does it get saved somewhere? Say I want to export the emails of all the people who have signed up. Is this possible?

Hi,

the RSS feed isn’t accessible due to the login page. Maybe change it to HTTP authentication?

J

Hi Folks

I really like your plugin despite the fact that in FF 2.0.0.3 using Wordpress 2.1.3 I can access http://www.url.com/feed/ without having to log in. Can you fix this?

Thanks

Hi,
thanks for the great plugin. Not sure if this is already included in the many posts above, but similar like igobypaul and Jason, I was looking for functionality to allow some pages unrestricted. Using combination of WordPress customs field and replacing the code of the function ac_auth_redirect with the code below solved my problem.
*** Modification: In case custom field “ispublic” with value “yes” is added in the post/page, the sites will be accessible for not authenticated users as well. Works however only if the starting /default WordPress page is set up to the unrestricted page.

global $post;
$post_id = $post->ID;
$key = "ispublic";
$single = true;
if(get_post_meta($post_id, $key, $single)!="yes") {
if ( (!empty($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE]) &&
!wp_login($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE], $_COOKIE[PASS_COOKIE], true)) ||
(empty($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE])) ) {
nocache_headers();
header(”HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily”);
header(’Location: ‘ . get_settings(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-login.php?redirect_to=’ . urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
header(”Status: 302 Moved Temporarily”);
exit();
}
}

Thanks! This is a great solution and exactly what I needed. Only blog members can access the blog and blog member management is handled by the administrator. Great!

very cool plug-in. solved my headache when “privatizing” my blog’s content thx for this! d.

Great work, thanks!
Does exactly what i was searching for!

This plugin is great. I use for wordpress 2.2.3 and it’s work very well

mk,
It has nothing to with the plugin. You MySQL database is simply down. Please restart it and your problem will be solved.

HI,

Your nice plugin has worked for quite some time. Right now I am getting

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/web216/html/internal/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /var/www/web216/html/internal/wp-content/plugins/ac_authenticator.php on line 18

If I disable the plugin the webpage is almost 100% OK. I am getting an error at the top, but the rest is OK

WordPress database error: [Table 'usr_web216_2.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
SELECT DISTINCT(post_id) FROM wp_post2cat WHERE category_id=2

To make the story complete I did an update to WP 2.3 after the problems occurred.

Any idea on what could be going on here?

Thanks!! It works wonders!

Hello,
Fantastic plug-in, works great!

One question: Is it possible to redirect users directly to the homepage after login, i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com instead of going to the WP dashboard/profile page?

If yes, where should I make that possible in the code?

Thanks already!
Ralph

re (136) i vote for this as well, please!

Is there a way to include a “register” link also? I’d like people to be able to register themselves and then have me be able to approve it (this works in unmodified WP…)

Thanks

I got the solution for my problem.Need to call this function in my header:.
Thnks anyways.

great plugin man.. do you have more?:D

thank you very much for Angsuman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin!

Jakob,
Put it at the top of your files like this:
<?php ac_auth_redirect(); ?>

For those of you looking for a way to authenticate Users before they are allowed access to your protected blog … use this plugin: http://www.dealsway.net/2007/09/04/wp-user-moderation/

I have it working on a client’s company blog & it works great with angsumans-authenticated-password-protection plugin.

Great plugin. Thank you!

I was wondering what you guys use to track logged in users. I tried Wassup but it shows is not easy to read who actually tried to login (unsuccessfully) and who was able to read (i.e. logged in).
Thanks.

Also, if you mean “open the feeds” on the free version … How/Where?

Thanks!

Unfortunately, WordPress 2.5 seems to break this plugin. That’s a big problem for me, since I have a site that depends on it.

Does anyone know of a fix? Alternatively, will there be a new version?

Many thanks.

Many thanks.

The problem seems to be in the way it redirects once you login. In both Firefox and Safari (in OS X), it produces an infinite loop of redirection that never leads to the blog.

We will look into it.

Hi, the same here. Cannot access my post after upgrading to WP 2.5. Thanks for any fix you might provide… D.

As as possible feature could we allow RSS feeds to be open but all other pages protected? I’m thinking this will allow people a preview of the postings via RSS feeds without needing to login/having an account.

Looking forward to the WP 2.5 fix before upgrading my sites–Thanks!

I had the same problem with the infinite loop a while ago, when I was using the unstable version of WP. I fixed it by replacing this line:

if ( (!empty($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE]) && !wp_login($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE], $_COOKIE[PASS_COOKIE], true)) || (empty($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE])) )


with this line:

if ( !is_user_logged_in() )

I don’t know if that is strictly correct, but it seems to work fine. Hope that helps.

Cheers
Julian

Problems after update to wordpress 2.5.

Hi there. I also encountered that “inifite loop” problem mentioned above. I’m not so deep into wordpress code, but I was able to re-establish all plugin features by replacing

if ( (!empty($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE]) && !wp_login($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE], $_COOKIE[PASS_COOKIE], true)) || (empty($_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE])) ) {

by

$user = wp_signon();
if ( is_wp_error($user) ) {

Seems to work perfectly the way it should.

Michael Niessl\’s code (comment 167) is working for me, as well.

Thanks!

thanks a lot, works fine for me, too!

I used Julian’s code and the plugin works fine in Internet Explorer. However, when I try to log in with Mozilla, it says incorrect password. I tried clearing the cache, etc. Anyone else have this problem with Mozilla?

I used Michael Niessl’s code and it worked!!!

Thanks!

Thanks Julian and Michael for both your WP 2.5 fixes. Just remember to add an open curly bracket when using Julian\\\’s code:

if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {

Lisa, not sure if this helps but I\\\’m using Firefox v2.0.0.13 with Julian\\\’s code, which works okay with my WP 2.5 installation.

Julian patch works for me.
Will you update the sources for 2.5 ?

( !is_user_logged_in() ) { Works fine with mozilla 2.0.0.14 internet explorer 7. cheers!

Hi,

I tried using Michael Niessl method for my Wordpress 2.5.1, but it did not worked? Can anybody assist me?

Hello,

I try the Michael Niessl code It works perfectly….Thank you Michael Niessl.

Got a problem after upgrading to WordPress 2.6. I was able to access the dashboard but not the blog itself. Niessl’s patch worked for me before (WordPress 2.5). It looks to me Julian’s patch has solved the problem. Here is the script that worked for me:

function ac_auth_redirect() {
// Checks if a user is logged in, if not redirects them to the login page
$user = wp_signon();
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
nocache_headers();
header("HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily");
header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-login.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
header(”Status: 302 Moved Temporarily”);
exit();
}
}

if(’wp-login.php’ != $pagenow && ‘wp-register.php’ != $pagenow) add_action(’template_redirect’, ‘ac_auth_redirect’);
?>

Hmmm… I’m wondering what “doesn’t work” means. My story:

1. Upgraded from 2.1.x to 2.6 and on reactivating my plugins experinced a fatal error warning related to Angsuman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin.

2. Came here and tried Youri’s fix above (using global $pagenow;) and no more errors on activating the plugin BUT couldn’t login.

3. Removed fix from 2 and tried Michael Niessl’s fix from above. Again, no errors BUT still could not login.

4. Went back to the original (unaltered) plugin. Interestingly, no errors this time (ie, no fatal errors on activating the plugin). BUT of course, no site access protection either!

This plugin has been so good we’ve all taken it for granted. Certainly missing it now. We need a fix for this for 2.6 please…. someone?

Thanks

Update:

Instead of using Michael Niessl\’s fix I used this as the replacement code:

global $user_ID;
if (!$user_ID) {

as recommended here:

http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2008-March/006542.html

This solves the NO ACCESS problem BUT it opens straight to the Dashboard, not the members’ front page.

Still, this feels like progress, after a fashion.

(BY THE WAY: sorry about the double post above.)

The redirection problem seems to be fixed by using the code from Mike Lanxess and in addition dropping the line
$user = wp_signon();
which is not needed any more.

I’m having trouble with the installation of this plugin with Wordpress 2.6 Attempt to add the username and password will not let me change the radio button and I get errors and warnings:
Warning: array_values () [function.array-values]: The argument should be an array in / mounted-storage/home37a/sub001/sc29674-JTIM/www/tesisple/wp-content/plugins/askapache-password-protect.php On line 462
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach () in / mounted-storage/home37a/sub001/sc29674-JTIM/www/tesisple/wp-content/plugins/askapache-password-protect.php on line 544
Warning: array_values () [function.array-values]: The argument should be an array in / mounted-storage/home37a/sub001/sc29674-JTIM/www/tesisple/wp-content/plugins/askapache-password-protect.php On line 515

Thanks in advance. I need help.

@Marcos
We sell Authenticator Pro for 30$ which allows you to password protect your RSS feed in addition to your blog. It has been tested on all recent versions of WordPress.

@Angsuman Chakraborty
I’d be happy to purchase this… if you can tell me where I can buy it! My searches for “Authenticator Pro” came up fruitless. Please send me an email if you have time, thank you!

We do not maintain the free version at this time. However the paid version (Authenticator Pro) is well maintained and runs with all versions of WordPress including but not limited to 2.6.2. Additionally it comes with 6 months of free support and unlimited free updates to ensure compatibility with all future versions of WordPress. Also it allows your various options to restrict access to your feed to feed subscribers only or allow access to all.
Note: The original free version disallows feed access to anyone.

The pro version costs 30$ only. If you would like to purchase it then make a payment via PayPal to sales @ taragana . com and mention the product name Authenticator Plugin Pro. We will process your order latest by one business day.

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у меня в ридер отдается не полный фид блога, одни заголовки. так и должно быть?.

A fix for WordPress 2.7 is available here:

http://ask.metafilter.com/109416/WordPress-27-and-Angsumans-Authenticated-WordPress-Plugin

Wonderfull plugin thanks

Hey I was testing this code, and if you are not registered, you CAN’T Register. If you log out, and try to register, it wants you to login to be able to access it.

I am using your plugin with WordPress 2.5.1. It works fine. When a user logs in from the WordPress Login Screen, is there a way to go directly to the main posts page? I keep going to the Admin Page

thanks you so much

It has been fixed. Please download again.

I’d love to see the ability for the RSS feeds to be accessable with a username and password. While I can’t see the RSS feeds of content currently, when I put a wordpress username/password into the RSS reader it connects, but returns an XML error…

Also, I was curious to see if anyone has found a plugin which allows users to register, but does not send them a password to your site until an admin has checked them over.