I not only wanted to integrate my own other things into my WordPress-based site, but I wanted forums, too, so of course I thought of bbPress. It seems to integrate well with WordPress, but then suddenly strange things started happening with login and logout. For instance, when I logged in with bbPress, I couldn’t get [...]
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Posted 20 April 2008
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Also tagged: authentication, bbpress, cookie, cookie domain, cookies, domain, integration, user, user authentication, wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wordpress login, wp, wp2.5
After implementing other pages that used WordPress to authenticate users and deal with access control, I went to move these pages off to a subdomain, and suddenly found that auth_redirect wasn’t quite working right. When auth_redirect is called and doesn’t find a logged-in user, it redirects to login and passes the URI of the current [...]
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Posted 16 April 2008
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Plenty of people seem to have written a lot about how to make WordPress use some other program’s user authentication mechanism, but there seems to be fairly little on how to get at WordPress’s user authentication from some other program. Fortunately, I found this article, and got what I wanted. It’s a fairly straight-forward process. [...]
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Posted 12 April 2008
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Recently (yesterday? today?), a hosting provider I inhereted when I took over a web site decided to add a CAPTCHA to their login page. That is, every time I want to log in to their control panel, I have to do their CAPTCHA, which is one of the harder ones to read that I’ve seen. [...]