This plugin helps you to determine if the ionCube loaders are installed correctly on your web server.
ionCube encoder is an established industry standard solution for PHP encoding. In order to run encrypted files on your webserver, it has have ionCube encoders installed. This plugin checks if this is true and if not, you are given a guidance through the official loader wizard which determines what exactly has to be installed on your server on how this can be achieved (if you are not admin of your webserver, you are given instructions which you can easily forward to your admin).
Screenshots
Admin notice when loader is installed on your server
Admin notice when loader is NOT installed on your server
loader wizard gives info on how to install the loader on your server
What do I do if ionCube loaders are not on my server?
You can start an interactive loader wizard within this plugin which will give you guidance on how to proceed to install the needed loader files on your webserver.
ChangeLog
1.5
- Security: Major refactoring to prevent direct access to plugin files.
- Feature: Integrated the “Loader Wizard” directly into the WordPress Admin Dashboard (under “Tools”) instead of running as a standalone script.
- Fix: Resolved URL parameter conflicts (renamed ‘page’ to ‘ic_step’) that caused “Permission denied” errors in WordPress 6.x.
- Fix: Patched phpinfo() and php.ini reading functions to handle servers that block these functions gracefully.
- Fix: Embedded logo as Data-URI to prevent broken image links.
- Fix: Improved loader detection on shared hosting environments where physical file access is restricted.
- Update: Full compliance with WordPress Coding Standards (Text Domains, Escaping, Nonces).
v1.4
added security fix for arbitrary file download – update is highly recommended!
v1.3
added support for partially finished loader installation, where php.ini still has to be copied to /wp-admin/
v1.2
add fallback methods for detecting ioncube loaders (needed if extension_loaded(‘ionCube Loader’) is unavailable, done by parsing phpinfo() and checking for ioncube_file_is_encoded()-function).
v1.1
show version of installed ioncube loader
v1.0
initial release
