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Password protect plugin upgrade

March 6th, 2011, posted in Uncategorized

Hi all,

Some bright spark has accidentally (I presume) messed up the permissions for my plugin in the wordpress.org repository that has rendered it inaccessible. This means that your version will never update through wordpress again. A new plugin repository was created for me and I have uploaded an update (3.3) which includes many new features and fixes (see below) and didn’t want all of you to go without the chance of upgrading.

New features:

  • RSS disabling (fixes the bug which allowed an unauthenticated user to access the rss feed)
  • Multiple passwords 9support for multiple passwords
  • Logs – support for logging of logins, login attempts and logouts
  • Image upload button
  • Cookies – the option to use cookies rather than sessions
  • Support – in-plugin support form
  • All new and improved admin interface

How to upgrade

  • Deactivate and remove the old plugin (it won’t overwrite it)
  • Go here and download the plugin (or search for it through wordpress)
  • Install it and all should work fine (fingers crossed)

Don’t want to upgrade?

Click cancel on the prompt to disable further messages.

Xbox problems

November 7th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

I got a new tv (LG le5900) and plugged the Xbox into it (hdmi). The tv highlighted hdmi1 as ‘connected’ when I switched the Xbox on but displayed ‘no signal’. I initially thought it was the new tv but I tried it on the old one and same problem – the screen was blue. I tried a different hdmi cable. I then tried the av cable which worked. Whenever I launch a game or switch the Xbox on the old tv flickers from blue (no signal) to black and then back to blue. This is what happens when my pc is connected and is on too higher resolution or refresh rate. After this I assumed that the connector on the Xbox was broken but then when I tried my hdmi to dvi on my monitor it worked. This is really strange. I then asked a friend to take some photos of the display settings on hdmi so that I could change them without looking at what I was doing. He plugged in his hdmi on his Xbox and tv and had the same problem. I reset the display settings by holding down Y and right trigger but it still doesn’t work.

Password protect wordpress 3 blog

July 2nd, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

To password protect a wordpress 3 blog with a single password use this plugin:
http://www.spiders-design.co.uk/password-protect-wordpress-blog/

Cache blog for faster access

April 18th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

You can now cache spiders-design for faster access. We use google gears to cache all images and scripts and posts.
You can see the status in the green box in the footer of the page.

Block all adverts whilst you browse the web

April 18th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

Adverts are annoying and clutter up your screen. If you hate adverts then download these:

Internet explorer: download this

Firefox: download this (requires you to be using firefox now)

Chrome: download this

Hope this helps remove annoying adverts from your life.

Speed up internet browsing by using google DNS servers

March 27th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

Firstly you must access your router configuration page. To do this first try the 2 links below if these don’t work follow the 3rd link to find out the IP address of your router.

http://router.spiders-design.co.uk

http://router2.spiders-design.co.uk

 

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/workingwithipaddresses/f/getrouteripaddr.htm

 

You then need to find out how to change the DNS servers (have a look around – should be in broadband settings or equivalent) if you can’t find it then google change dns dervers followed by the make and model of your router.

 

To change these settings you usually have to login to your router. To find out your routers default password google router make and model followed by default password.

 

Then change primary DNS server to 8.8.8.8 and the secondary to 8.8.4.4 this will speed up your day to day browsing but not downloads. For information as to why this speeds it up read on.

 

 

Every time your browser visits a new site google.com or yahoo.com it has to Ping a DNS server to find out the physical IP address of the server that the site is being hosted on by using google’s DNS servers you speed up this service (because google is awesomely quick)

this wouldn’t however speed up downloads as the ping has to be done only once per site.

Google chrome upload percentage

March 7th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

When uploading large files I was impressed that google chrome displays the percentage complete.

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This is very useful – how is google chrome so good at absolutely everything.

Best free hosting site

March 3rd, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

Hostcell.net This company is very good and has extremely good service and great specs. Slightly more fussy over signups though as each is individually verified but still very nice and great support.

Password protect wordpress blog

February 21st, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

I have created a WordPress Plugin now Download here

 

 

 

Place this at the top of header.php

header.php source

   1: session_start();

   2: if(isset($_SESSION['authenticated'])){

   3: if($_SESSION['authenticated'] == "yes") {

   4: $authenticated = "yes";

   5: }

   6: else{

   7: $authenticated = "no";

   8: }

   9: }

  10: else{

  11: $authenticated = "no";

  12: }

  13:

  14: if($authenticated != "yes"){

  15:

  16: echo <<<EOT

  17: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

  18: <html>

  19: <head>

  20: <title>Redirecting</title>

  21: <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://example.com/login.php"></HEAD>

  22: <BODY>

  23: Not authenticated - redirecting...

  24: </BODY>

  25: </HTML>

  26: EOT;

  27: exit();

  28: }

  29: ?>

And save this as login.php

login.php source

   1: <?php

   2: session_start();

   3: if(isset($_REQUEST['password'])){

   4: $password = $_REQUEST['password'];

   5: if($password == "password") {

   6: $_SESSION['authenticated'] = "yes";

   7: $do = "redirect";

   8: }

   9: else {

  10: $do = "incorrect";

  11: }

  12: }

  13: else{

  14: $do = "showform";

  15: }

  16: //done processing

  17: if($do == "showform"){

  18: $formhtml = <<<EOT

  19: <html>

  20:

  21: <head>

  22: <title>Your Site | Login</title>

  23: <style type="text/css">

  24: body {

  25: background: url(http://chatfieldfamily.co.uk/images/1.jpg) no-repeat;

  26: background-size: 100%;

  27: font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;

  28: }

  29: #form {

  30: opacity: 0.5;filter:alpha(opacity=50);zoom:1;

  31: }

  32: #form:hover {

  33: opacity: 0.8;filter:alpha(opacity=80);zoom:1;

  34: }

  35: </style>

  36: </head>

  37:

  38: <body>

  39: <div align="center" id="form" class="form"style="margin-top:400px; margin-left:40%; margin-right:40%;; background-color:#000; color:#FFF"><h2>Your Site Login</h2>

  40:   <form action="login.php" method="post">

  41:     Password: <input type="password" name="password"></input><br></br>

  42: <input type="submit"></input></form></div>

  43:

  44:

  45:

  46: </body>

  47:

  48: </html>

  49: EOT;

  50: echo($formhtml);

  51: }

  52: else if($do == "incorrect") {

  53: $formhtml = <<<formhtml

  54: <html>

  55:

  56: <head>

  57: <title>Your Site | Login</title>

  58: <style type="text/css">

  59: body {

  60: background: url(http://chatfieldfamily.co.uk/images/1.jpg) no-repeat;

  61: background-size: 100%;

  62: font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;

  63: }

  64: #form {

  65: opacity: 0.5;filter:alpha(opacity=50);zoom:1;

  66: }

  67: #form:hover {

  68: opacity: 0.8;filter:alpha(opacity=80);zoom:1;

  69: }

  70: </style>

  71: </head>

  72:

  73: <body>

  74: <div align="center" id="form" class="form"style="margin-top:400px; margin-left:40%; margin-right:40%;; background-color:#000; color:#FFF"><h2>Chatfield Family Login</h2>

  75:   <form action="login.php" method="post">

  76:   <div style="color:#F00" >Incorrect password</div>

  77:     Password: <input type="password" name="password"></input><br></br>

  78: <input type="submit"></input></form></div>

  79:

  80:

  96: </body>

  97:

  98: </html>

  99:

 100: formhtml;

 101: echo($formhtml);

 102: }

 103: elseif($do == "redirect") {

 104: echo <<<redirect

 105: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

 106: <html>

 107: <head>

 108: <title>Redirecting</title>

 109: <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://loggedinurl.com"></HEAD>

 110: <BODY>

 111: Authenticated - redirecting...

 112: </BODY>

 113: </HTML>

 114: redirect;

 115: }

 116: ?>

see it in use at www.chatfieldfamily.co.uk

or http://clubmembers-only.com

How to set up windows live writer

February 20th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

Go to chatfieldfamily.co.uk. You should see a screen similar to the one below or “You are accessing this site from the Chatfield household” in the top left.image

Login with the password. You should now see:

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Click on Login on the bottom of the sidebar.You should now see:

image

Login With your username (your name) and your password (default is password).

At the top right after logging in click on your name. Then scroll down and set your password.

image Click Start then type “windows live writer” or until it appears, click on it.

You should see:

image Click next then select other blogging service and click next again.

type in chatfieldfamily.co.uk and fill out your username and pasword

 

The blog type is wordpress 2.2+

 

the publishing url is http://chatfieldfamily.co.uk/xmlrpc.php

 

After it has set up click finish

How To Make A Window Stay Always On Top in Windows 7 | Windows 7 hacker

February 17th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

There are times it’s convenient when having one window always stay on top of any otherwindows on your windows desktop, especially on a dual monitor setup. And that’s exactly whyPowerMenu comes in play.

It’s a small free utility that only does one thing, adding a few extra menu options in addition to the standard “Close”, “Maximize”, etc options. Besides Always on Top, it also offersTransparency and Minimize to Tray.

The tool was developed originally for Windows 2000, but works quite well in all other versions, including Windows 7. However, because of the new task bar in Windows 7 that doesn’t have Window options, the only way to make it work is to use the top frame of the Window. Just right-click and pick one of the three extra options.

image

And here is what the Live Writer looks like when the Transparency was set to 40%, with the big green leaf as the wallpaper at the background.

image

That’s it, and enjoy.

Download PowerMenu on Abstract Path

Buzz

February 11th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

Google has released google buzz an alternative to twitter.
Also check out wakoopa.

user agent changer help

February 10th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

Help coming soon…
please comment any problems or questions

User agent changer

February 10th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

If you are reading this then you have installed the user agent changer for firefox.

Word generator

January 26th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

For a cool image generator from keywords head over to wordle.net You can type in keywords or point it to a url the size of the word depends on the amount of occurrences. A quick and easy way of generating beautiful graphics.

Test Post

January 6th, 2010, posted in Uncategorized

I have posted this post straight from word to the internet, isn’t it great NEW>>Blog post>>type in this message>>Publish

xlive.dll Batman

November 13th, 2009, posted in Uncategorized

If your Batman installation won’t play and complains that xlive.dll is missing then go to Here and download the windows live for games update and it will work.

E-mail

October 19th, 2009, posted in Uncategorized

Get a free domain name here www.co.cc.
Sign up for freehosting at www.spiders-design.co.uk
Bingo your own free website.

Put your name and E-mail on the bottom of the list then E-mail this to all your friends, If you think the list is really long then also send it to webmater@spiders-design.co.uk. When the list gets to 100 names and atleast 50 of them have signed up (including setting up domain at .co.cc) whoever E-mails me the list will earn themselves a free .com domain and £5 plus everyone who signed up will be upgraded to 5.5gb space 200gb traffic 50 sql databases etc. So get sending lets see how long we can make this E-mail web and break a world record.

The original E-mail is at http://spiders-design.co.uk/spiderposts/2009/10/e-mail/

Free Domain

October 19th, 2009, posted in Uncategorized

Go to www.co.cc to get your free domain name.

Members site

October 14th, 2009, posted in Uncategorized

We are currently in the process of updating our members site please be patient.