How Strong is YOUR Password?

You’ve probably read it over on the WordPress.com blog by now – they’ve taken a step up in password security by adding a meter that gauges the strength of a user’s password as they change it.

Well now you don’t have to use WordPress.com to make sure your users are aware when their passwords stink – the Password Strength plugin provides the same functionality for stand-alone WordPress 2.2+ blogs.

Password Strength is a stand-alone port of the WordPress.com feature written by Donncha1 and uses the same Password Strength Meter jQuery goodness, written by Phiras!

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Ready? Set. Goooooo! password_strength-1.0

Note that this plugin requires WordPress 2.2, as it relies upon the bundled jQuery Javascript library.

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4 Responses to How Strong is YOUR Password?

  1. Matt says:

    Want to drop this in trac as a core patch? I think it’d be useful.

  2. Chris Meller says:

    Sure, I’d be happy to. That’d actually simplify some of the stuff, since I was going out of my way to avoid editing any of the core files.

  3. Curtis Earl says:

    looks like the download link is down. mind if i give your plugin a whirl?

  4. Chris Meller says:

    There’s no point in using the plugin, it’s default functionality now.

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