December 18th, 2006 WordPress Authentication Plugin

This plugin requires that a user be logged in to see any page in your blog (except the login and register pages).

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WordPress Authentication Plugin
WordPress Authentication Plugin

Posted by Aaron D. Campbell Tags: authentication, plugin, Wordpress

15 Responses to “WordPress Authentication Plugin”

December 31st, 2006 at 3:31 pm
BGH Quiz Says:

Thank you, that’s exactly the sort of plugin I’ve been looking for throughout the past days. It perfectly works.
November 28th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Matt Williamson Says:

where is the download?
November 28th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Aaron D. Campbell Says:

Sorry, a recent WordPress upgrade caused a bunch of my files to become detached from the posts they belonged to. I think I have them all fixed now, but this one is definitely fixed.
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
om gargatte Says:

i wud like to know if its possible to make one particular page on wordpress to require wp login…
means-
to view de contents of tat page ,one must be ogged into as wp user….
n to view de rest of de pages wp-login should not be neccesary…

Om Gargatte
February 5th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Alfredo Says:

Plugin could not be activated cause it triggered a fatal error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/www/blog.agnitio.es/wp-content/plugins/wp-authenticate.php on line 23

Fresh new install of WP 2.3.3

Worked fine in WP 2.3.2 and still working in an upgrade to 2.3.3, but the error happened in a new install.

Please help.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Aaron D. Campbell Says:

Alfredo: Are you sure nothing else changed? It looks like you are getting an error that is usually associated with trying to run PHP 5 code on PHP 4. The plugin (as with everything else I do) requires PHP 5.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Aaron D. Campbell Says:

om gargatte: That could be done, but this plugin does not do it. Consider putting a check in your theme’s page.php file that looks like this:
< ?php if (777 == the_ID()) {auth_redirect();} ?>
Replace “777″ with the ID of the page you want to require authentication for.
February 8th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Om Gargatte Says:

its just too kind of u to have replied.

i tried doing it, but it resulted in de code shown up on de page…….

page id is 4
February 8th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Om Gargatte Says:

hey, i ‘m not able to make it work:(
its not doing de intended job, i mean it just allows everyone to view de page
February 8th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Aaron D. Campbell Says:

If the code is showing up, make sure it’s wrapped in php tags:
< ?php ... ?>
Other than that, what version of wordpress?
February 26th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Steve Says:

I also got the “Plugin encountered fatal error” when I tried activating the Authenticate plugin. After reading here that you’ve converted all your plugins to PHP 5, I switched my WP 2.3.3 installation to run on PHP 5. Thereafter the plugin and the rest of the blog is working fine.

Suggestion: If the plugin requires PHP 5 to run at all, please indicate this up front in the README.TXT file and other documentation.

Thank you for your work.
April 18th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
ian Says:

Thank you for creating this plugin. FYI - I am using it successfully with Wordpress 2.5.
April 19th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Aaron D. Campbell Says:

Thanks for the update Ian, I tested it with 2.5.1 to make sure, and then fixed the readme in the repos to reflect that.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:34 am
George Says:

There is a problem running this plugin on WP2.5. As reported elsewhere, if you upload an image, WP shows the login box in the box after upload, instead of the image. Any ideas, as I would like to revert to usin this plugin?
April 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Chad Says:

I downloaded the plugin a few minutes ago and installed it on WordPress 2.5.

2 small issues:
Line 29: auth_redirect(); is commented out. It must be uncommented to actually work
Line 7: Version is still listed as 1.0

Otherwise, it DID work with WordPress 2.5!

Thanks Aaron.