WordPress Plugin Update: Absolute Privacy 2.0 beta 1 Ready For Download

Well I’ve been sitting on this one for a long time, mostly due to things being crazy around here (like having a baby, school, yadda yadda). I’m releasing an update to my popular WordPress plugin: Absolute Privacy 2.0 beta 1 is ready for public testing. You can read the change notes below, or just download the .zip file.

What’s Changed?

A lot has changed, but here’s a quick rundown:

• 3.0.x+ required
• Complete code rewrite. I rewrote the entire plugin from object oriented to procedural as this made more sense to me for this plugin. It should be much easier for others to modify and read through the code. No need for overkill here.
• Two different privacy methods: complete lockdown and members area. Complete lockdown functions like the plugin did previously, the entire site will be password protected. Members area allows you protect a specific page (and all subpages).

• Ability to allow access to homepage even with complete lockdown enabled.
• Added two new (currently undocumented) shortcodes. [loginform] will display a login form on a page or post and [profilepage] will display a page for logged in members to change their password, email, etc. Documentation coming before the final release
• Rewrote the authentication functions to use the authenticate filter rather then overwrite the entire function found in pluggable.php. Much better! See this post for more info.
• Added a notice when a user doesn’t have registration enabled (by far my biggest support request)