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Hi is it possible to modify the login fields required to login into wp-admin? Say to use the email address instead of the username together with the password to gain access. How would I go about doing that? thanks

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There are plugins which help to do this:

With http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/ people can use their email address instead of their username to log into you WordPress install.

Using http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/ you can have the WordPress login included in your design, and allow users to modify their account information without logging into the backend.

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Thanks but what about if I want to extend the login further and ask for more fields, apart from the email. Is there maybe a manual may to modify the login system, or more customisable plugins? – wpmayor Mar 19 '11 at 16:46
I did a bit of digging. It looks like there are hooks you can override to make this happen, but it really doesn't look straight-forward. You would have to override the form with the login_form hook ( adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/hook/login_form ), then override how logging in is handled using wp_login ( adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/hook/wp_login ). You would have to do your own handling of storing the login information in cookies, and dealing with a failed login. Basically, I think this is something you'd really have to hack WordPress to make happen. – Gavin Anderegg Mar 19 '11 at 21:51
I see, thanks Gavin. – wpmayor Mar 22 '11 at 0:07

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