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Password protect plugin upgrade

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:43:29 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:28:30 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:49:35 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:43:40 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:16:34 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:14:20 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:38:11 +0000

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

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

Best free hosting site

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:50:27 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:00:38 +0000

I have created a WordPress Plugin now Download here

Place this at the top of header.php

header.php source

session_start();
if(isset($_SESSION['authenticated'])){
if($_SESSION['authenticated'] == "yes") {
$authenticated = "yes";
}
else{
$authenticated = "no";
}
}
else{
$authenticated = "no";
}

if($authenticated != "yes"){

echo <<
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">


Redirecting
"REFRESH" content="0;url=http://example.com/login.php">

Not authenticated - redirecting...


EOT;
exit();
}
?>

And save this as login.php

   1: 

   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 = <<

  19: 

  20:

  21: 

  22: Your Site | Login

  23: 

  36: 

  37:

  38: 

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

  40:   "login.php" method="post">

  41:     Password: "password" name="password">



  42: "submit">

43:

44:

45:

46:

47:

48:

  49: EOT;

  50: echo($formhtml);

  51: }

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

  53: $formhtml = <<

  54: 

  55:

  56: 

  57: Your Site | Login

  58: 

  71: 

  72:

  73: 

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

  75:   "login.php" method="post">

  76:   "color:#F00" >Incorrect password

  77:     Password: "password" name="password">



  78: "submit">

79:

80:

96:

97:

98:

99:

 100: formhtml;

 101: echo($formhtml);

 102: }

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

 104: echo <<

 105: "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

 106: 

 107: 

 108: Redirecting

 109: "REFRESH" content="0;url=http://loggedinurl.com">

 110: 

 111: Authenticated - redirecting...

 112: 

 113: 

 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

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:43:36 +0000

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.

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

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

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

You should see:

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