Archive for May, 2010

NewMedias get’s it’s third musketeer!

May 21st, 2010

logoThose of you who know me from the NewMedias Your Members project will remember that for years it has been a two man band. Some were sceptical about the future of Your Members and whether it was just going to fizzle away like so many other Wordpress plugins. I am pleased to now tell you that actually no, we aren’t going anywhere and in fact will be trying to get things moving again with help of the latest member of the team, Glenn Pegden. Glenn has a varied background, likes long walks on the beach and candle lit dinners. I understand he also knows a thing or two about sales and therefore he will be kicking myself and Tim Nash into shape to get the plugin(s) updated, pretty and unmissable!

Current plans include a whole new website just for the Your Members plugin to house things like… wait for it… documentation and a proper list of the things it can actually do! We have recently released YM version 1.6 which is the best version yet! We hope to get some feedback and tweets to the new YM Twitter account for things that you, the community, would like to see and then get the next version out to you sometime in the next couple of months.

Any questions about the plugin, the project or Glenns vital statistics then you can get in touch with us at newmedias.co.uk or use my site contact form and we shall get back to you.

SB Password Expiry

May 21st, 2010

Does what it says on the tin! I received an email recently from someone asking how they would go about expiring their users’ passwords every so often. I saw the value in the idea so rather than explain it I decided to write a plugin to do it.

This new plugin of mine predictably called SB Password Expiry runs when a user tries to login. If the password as not changed for more than a configurable number of days then the login is refused, password changed and a new one emailed. The email content is also configurable as is the message the user sees on being refused the login.

Usage
It should work out of the box with a default 90 day expiry period so simply upload the plugin to your site and activate it and it will do the rest. if at any point you want to disable it then simply deactivate the plugin.

Download
SB Password Expiry (3.56 KB)