I am happy to have finally released version 1.3 of Absolute Privacy. If you’ve ever wanted to make your WordPress powered website private (aka, family blogs, online journal, etc), Absolute Privacy makes it happen, complete with moderated registrations, RSS control, and lots more.
Version 1.3 bring the following additions:
- added ability to control RSS feeds. Feeds can be disabled, enabled, limited to headlines, or limited to a predefined number of characters
- added ability to allow non-logged in users to view specific pages
- added ability to redirect non-logged in users to the login screen OR any page or post
- added ability to customize email notification messages
- minor bug fixes
- full compatibility with WordPress v2.9
Download it at the official WordPress plugin repository, or read more at its homepage here.
Marco
March 29, 20101:49 pmHey John,
great Plugin! But how can I personalize the email notifications using version 1.3?
I need to integrate the Link to the "moderate users" page and I need to integrate the Username.
Is that still possible with 1.3?
Greets from Germany
Marco
johnkolbert
March 29, 20105:26 pmHi Marco,
Email notifications are now customized directly from the settings area (settings->Absolute Privacy). Check the default notifications for variables you can use in the emails.
Sent from my iPhone
Adam
April 1, 20101:45 amWhere do you find the default notifications or email templates? When I upgraded, the email fields went blank and i have no idea where to get the templates for the old emails. Thanks in advance….
Derek
April 25, 20104:31 amHas anybody found the default notifications? I've upgrade to this version, but can't find any variables for the emails. All the defaults were wiped out, from what I can tell….
Thanks
Francis
March 29, 20104:54 pmGreat Plugin! I have one issue with it though. As soon as I activated it users started emailing me telling me they couldn't log in. I tracked their problem down to case sensitivity of the username. With the plugin disabled, usernames are not case sensitive…with Absolute Privacy activated, usernames become case sensitive. I know my crew is going to continue to give me headaches on this one, is there an easy way to make usernames case insensitive with this plugin?
@ten0101
March 29, 20105:31 pmThis is an excellent plugin! We've just moved to Canada and wanted to set up a private blog for our friends and family, and Absolute Privacy is perfect. Thanks so much for your hard work, John!
Carl Salmon
March 30, 20108:53 amSuper Duper posting, whenever I come across a blog that really has some excellent unique content I always want to say thankyou, there are so many blogs nowadays that are full of copied content.
Debbie Love
March 30, 20109:17 amWell done for all your hard work in providing this high quality blog, I have taken a few tips from your layout and as I am building my own blog I hope you don’t mind me taking some of your ideas as they are brill! Thanks
London diamonds
March 31, 201012:45 pmVery good work. WP it's doing a good work , i am very content by they work and use they plugins and script on all my websites!
Mike Piskie aka Mr. Tech Medic
April 2, 20105:36 pmJohn what a great plugin. I use it for my kids private blog and love it.
I just decided to use it for another site where I want to have some pages protected. I see that 1.3 lets me have "allowed pages". My problem is that I could not find a way to allow the home page since it does not have a page id?
Any suggestions on how to add the home page (i.e. http://www.website.com/index.html) as an allowed page for the public?
Thanks a million.
Andreas
April 18, 20103:56 amJohn,
I discovered AP today and I'm with the posters above – this is a very nicely done plugin. Well done!
I am trying to figure out the same thing as Mike Piskie above – how to turn the home page into an allowed page. I tried entering '0' into the list of allowed pages, but that's not working, as WP is redirecting any call tohttp://example.com/?page_id=0 tohttp://example.com – which then gets people not yet logged in to the log-in page. I'll be hunting for some way out of this (such as figuring out how that redirect happens to see if there's something there I can modify), but if you happen to have already resolved that one, or have a quick pointer to set me going in the right direction, I'd be very grateful (and would be glad to document that so you can add it to your documentation).
Again – nice job on this plugin, and thanks for your contribution to the WP community!
-Andreas
John Kolbert
May 25, 20103:32 amCurrently this is not supported by the plugin. But I’ll add that in the next version coming out in the next few weeks.
Thomas Wood
May 18, 20107:34 pmReally love the plugin. I and a few others I saw on forum are having a bit of trouble though, in that we're not receiving any administrator notifications of new user signups. Any ideas? I can't get my company to budget me (and be able to donate) till I sort this out to get the site running. Ideas?
John Kolbert
May 25, 20103:28 amWho are you using as a host? Do you receive any WordPress emails (new comments, etc)?
mel
June 10, 201012:01 amThank you for your work on this fantastic plugin – this finally gives me a simple solution to locking down a blog for friends and family. The interface is great, straightforward, sleek.
I do have one question I wonder if you could help with – The approval verification email does not send the password to the user – it says ‘Password: (hidden)’ – I took some educated guesses about what the key might be & looked through the code – but no luck. Is there a quick fix I can do here? I also like the ability to lock the user out of the profile and dashboard – but allowing them to see the password that they registered with would be great.
Thanks for your help, and thanks again – one of the best interfaces I’ve tried and I played with several plugins of this sort over the last few months!
Bryan Coe - Blackbird e-Solutions
June 11, 20103:44 pmHey John,
The AP plugin looks promising, but I can’t it to send the approval email. I receive all other emails from WP. It also doesn’t put the new registrant in the catefory to be approved. I’m using WPmu could this be the reason why it won’t work?
Thanks
Bryan
Kristina
June 26, 20101:08 amHi. I really like your plug in. But I need to block some categories instead of some pages. How can I do that? I believe the descriptionbsaid I can do that but I don’t see it in settings.
Alleyesonme
June 27, 20108:02 pmI want block post but not home, how can I do ?
Allowed pages ? What’s ID for Home ?
Kim Holm
June 28, 20109:57 pmHi John,
When logged in even only as a subscriber on my Parent Blog gives me access to one of my child-blogs which I have protected via your plug-in. It could be nice if you could set access rights based on user-rights. Maybe it is juts me doing something wrong. Of course I will be looking into it some more. Otherwise. Thank you for your good work.
Danish guy here. This plug-in really looks good. But I seem to have a problem with the new WordPress 3.0, and MU mode
Kim
Aron
July 13, 201012:40 pmIt sounds like there are a lot of updates that everybody is waiting. As well I downloaded your Developer’s CodeBox for WordPress and I am very happy. I am subscribed to your blog RSS feeds and I am getting latest everyday.
kevin
July 27, 20102:10 amJust thought I’d let you know that Absolute Privacy does not appear to be working with WordPress 3.0. I am still able to go to any page when the site is set to lock down.
Kevin
John Kolbert
July 28, 20103:52 amAre you using a multi-site install? I’ve tested it with many single-site WP 3.0 installs without issue. The next update I hope to have compatibile with multisite enabled.
hilip
July 27, 20105:30 amHi
You could solve the issue with the home page, by creating a page called “home”, and then making it appear as the home page, in “reading” settings. I imagine that would work fine
Philip
July 27, 20106:58 amHi
I must be being thick!
I have installed the plugin (which I’m sure is wonderful). I have checked “anyone can register”, but I can’t for the life of me wotk out what’s next! How do I get the registration screen to appear at all? I have locked down the site, so when someone goes there, all they get is the normal WP login page.
Please help!
Thanks
John Kolbert
July 28, 20103:51 amJust enable registrations under Settings->General (check “Anyone can register”) and you’ll be all set.
Jean
July 27, 20103:06 pmI am having the same problem. I get the normal WP login screen and not the multiple one. What am I doing wrong? How do I get the registration screen to appear? I am using wp3.0
Philip
July 28, 201012:52 amI can get it to appear using this url:
http://www.YOURDOMAIN/privatemembers/wp-login.php?action=register
However, I can’t get it to send the approval email, which is critical!
Cheers
Philip
John Kolbert
July 28, 20103:49 amI’ve been hearing this from a few users. I’m looking in to this issue. I hope to have it fixed soon.
John Kolbert
July 28, 20103:50 amYou need to enable registrations under the “General” settings (Settings->General) in WordPress
Jim
July 27, 201010:49 pmHi John,
I’ve just tested your plugin and it’s great. Thank you. Though, do you have any plans or tips on how to apply it for a WP3.0 / Buddy Press site? It seems to ignore (leave public) Buddy Press pages.
Thanks much.
John Kolbert
July 28, 20103:50 amI’ve not tested this plugin with BuddyPress at all, though my goal is to get it working with multi-site enabled installs with the next release.
Scott
August 6, 201010:14 amI love this plugin and am using it on another site, but tried running it with a new WordPress site that I’m doing with BuddyPress and get the following error when trying to access the home page by logging in. Is this a BuddyPress compatibility issue or is something else going on here?
Fatal error: Call to undefined method BP_XProfile_Group::get_all() in /home5/yfcasiap/public_html/intranet/wp-content/plugins/bpgroups/oci_bp_group_forums.php on line 346
Marcus
August 16, 201011:41 amYour plugin worked great with 3.0 but when I upgraded it dissapered?