I released version 2.0.1 of Verve SSL today. I performed general PHP code maintenance and updated the code so that it converts uppercase URLs to lowercase. You can download the plugin here.

Kevin

I released version 2.0 of Verve SSL today.  I completely redesigned the plugin using on PHP code and no JavaScript code.  This makes the plugin have better performance and compatibility with WordPress and third party WordPress plugins. You can download the plugin here.

Kevin

I released version 1.4.5 of Verve SSL yesterday.  I updated the doctype so that the plugin will have better compatible with Internet Explorer.  You can download the plugin here.

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I released version 1.4.4 of Verve SSL yesterday.  I updated the code so that the  plugin will be bypassed and a message will be displayed on the top of the login page if JavaScript is disabled.  It will allow you to login with JavaScript disabled but it will not be a secure login.  If Javascript is enabled the plugin works as normal.  You can download the plugin here.

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I released version 1.4.3 of Verve SSL today, it includes code optimizations making the code better and faster when processing the case of the URL. You can download the plugin here.

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I released version 1.4.2 of Verve SSL this week, it includes enhancements making the plugin URL case insensitive. You can download the plugin here.

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I just wrote my first WordPress plugin called Verve SSL. It is a SSL plugin for WordPress login and administration. You can read more about it and download it at the plugin page here.

Kevin

A few days ago I wanted to add the year to the copyright porition of the footer of my WordPress theme. To do this I added the following code to the footer.php of my theme.

  <p>Copyright &#169; <?php echo date('Y'); ?> <a href="https://www.kevinverver.com">Kevin Verver</a>.</p>

The great thing about this code is that it will change the year automatically each year so that you don’t have to remember to update it yourself.

Kevin

I recently decided to switch to Arvixe for the hosting of this blog. I chose windows hosting because my kevinverver.com site is using DotNetNuke so I needed windows hosting for that but use PHP on windows for this blog.

I like that Arvixe offers unlimited space and bandwidth and allows multiple domains per account with out the use of domain pointers and redirect code like some other hosts such as WinHost only offer. I was also looking for a host that offered Windows 2008 hosting with ASP.net 4.0 and access to IIS 7 Manager and SQL Server Management Studio access. Arvixe offers all of these services at a great price. They also have the URL Rewrite module for IIS 7 which is a module I really like.

I had some performance issues with Arvixe but their support was very helpful and was able to resolve the issues for me. Arvixe offers both 24/7 phone and e-mail support. Overall I would give Arvixe hosting 4.5/5 stars.

Kevin

I wanted to configure my WordPress blog so that it would use SSL for the WordPress login and for the Administration Dashboard.  I found plugins that would achieve this for me but it would not redirect back to HTTP when not on the login page or the administration dashboard.

To accomplish this I wrote a script that checks the location.pathname to see if it matches the regular expression “.*wp-.*”. This way it will only find a match if on the login page or the administration dashboard. I then created the next script to use if you browse the site while logged in. It changed the protocol to HTTPS, I made it all work by putting the PHP script in the wp-config.php that checks if logged in and then calls the scripts.

Kevin

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var protocol = location.protocol;
var hostname = location.hostname;
var pathname = location.pathname;
var href = location.href;
var wpAdminMatch = location.pathname.match(".*wp-.*");
if (protocol == "http:" && pathname == wpAdminMatch) { protocol = "https:"; location.replace(protocol + "//" + hostname + pathname) }
else if (protocol == "https:" && pathname != wpAdminMatch) { protocol = "http:"; location.replace(protocol + "//" + hostname + pathname) };
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var protocol = location.protocol;
var hostname = location.hostname;
var pathname = location.pathname;
var href = location.href;
if (protocol == "http:" ) { protocol = "https:"; location.replace(protocol + "//" + hostname + pathname) } else { };
</script>

$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$Path=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$URI='http://www.kevinverver.com'.$Path;
$feed_url ='http://www.kevinverver.com/blog/feed/';
$feed_secure_url ='https://www.kevinverver.com/blog/feed/';
if (0 == $current_user->ID && $URI != $feed_url && $URI != $feed_secure_url) {
    echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="/blog/sslcheck.js"></script>';
}
else if ($URI != $feed_url && $URI != $feed_secure_url) {
     echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="/blog/ssllogin.js"></script>';
}