Tue 24 Apr 2007
Since patching the Secure-Admin plugin a few months back, the download count and positive feedback has been fantastic.
I’ve recently adapted it to work with PHP 5.2 and, due to popular request, also expanded the featureset to cater for Shared SSL setups.
In light of the expanding featureset I’ve decided to rename the plugin to Admin-SSL (more…)
Thu 19 Apr 2007
The original Secure-Admin plugin supported only Private SSL. This meant if you wanted to secure your Wordpress login and administration pages you needed to purchase and setup a Private SSL certificate from a certificate authority and a dedicated IP address from your host.
Since many of us are given free Shared SSL with our shared hosting plans and have no further need for a dedicated IP, I decided to modify the Secure-Admin code to cater for those that wanted to add SSL security without the need for extra requirements. (more…)