This release is coming a great new feature. For a while, people have attempted to change their WordPress login URL (the little http://youdomain.com/wp-login.php URL). But it wasn’t easy, you had to massively change file names and the core WordPress (a big no-no!) Well, I have made it simple. Introducing Lockdown WP Admin 1.3.1.

You can change the login URL to whatever URL you want it to be. There is no limit. (Well there is, you can’t have wp-admin or wp-content but that’s understandable!) And once you enable that part of the plugin, you can no longer access wp-login.php directly. It will return a 404, or a file not found. All the URLs and links to it will be rewritten, and if you don’t give the URL out, nobody will know your login URL.

If you change the URL to say “login”, your login URL page will be http://yourdomain.com/login/.

You can download the updated plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lockdown-wp-admin/. Enjoy!

UPDATE: I just pushed out 1.3.5. There was an issue with WordPress installs with a non-root location. Thanks!!

You may have noticed that everybody is out to make a buck at all software these days. Look at the Apple App Store, for example. The free apps are nice and all, but some real quality and handy tools, it can only be found in the premium apps (mostly!).

As for web-based software, such as forums and support software, everything is expensive for that one person trying to start a new open-sourced project. They can either take a free project for a support system and get 1999 era quality code and features, or pay $500 for a license at a premium software suite. Free and Open Source code is definitely something that should be used more often, hint this is where I step in.

That new open source project needs some help tracking bugs and new suggestions for its new project. Let’s make it simple and very user-friendly. Working on a name for this endevaor, but I’d love to have some help. I am just a guy that is aiming to give back to a community that has so much amazing, open source software such as WordPress.

Have an idea or would like to get involved? Shoot me a tweet @talkingwithsean or you send me an e-mail at me@sean-fisher.com.

Update: Have you seen 68KB? Power to the community.

The summer is already going quite quickly, and it’s onlyRecently, I have had the pleasure (and time) to improve some websites very dear to me. The International Insider and CSI High School websites have been in dire need of a redesign for quite some time. I hope that I can recieve some positive feedback on these redesigns as well as see these websites develop into a community in some sense. Now I really see how hard it is to obtain a visitor’s attention!

The homepage for CSI HS

@csihighschool.org

The homepage for The Insider

@theinternationalinsider.com

Just a random post that you can see

@theinternationalinsider.com/2010/06/csi-experiences-dakamela/

Oh and did I mention that both websites are powered by the wonderful, open-source WordPress? WordPress 3.0 has some amazing features!

Climate Change: it’s the one topic that everybody knows about but doesn’t feel like fixing. As experts have put it, it is one of the greatest threats to humanity. It is already having in impact around the globe. Why haven’t we done anything about it?

In steps Change for Climate, a new organization. We’re aiming to actually do something about the environment. Check us out at http://change.double-designs.com (soon to be located at changeforclimate.org)