Can anyone guide me in the right direction on how to loosen or disable the strong password policy?
Would like to do it without the use of a plugin.
I'm running a non-public site and don't need strong security.
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1There is no "strong password policy" in wordpress – Mark Kaplun Jan 30 '16 at 14:41
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2Well, you cannot make a simple password, it will only accept very strong passwords, when you create an account as a user. Maybe "policy" is not the right word. make.wordpress.org/core/2015/07/28/passwords-strong-by-default – MrCalvin Jan 30 '16 at 22:01
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1It's not when creating the admin account or creating user-account in the backend. It's when a user creates his own account in the frontend. In my case using the e-commerce plugin WooCoomerce. But as far I can read this strong password policy is a WP core feature, not delivered by the plugin. But I find it VERY restrictive and I want to disable it or loosen it. I've added a screen-dump to my question. – MrCalvin Jan 31 '16 at 23:25
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1it's a WP core service. They implemented the library called "zxcvbn", made by Dropbox in 2012. – MrCalvin Feb 2 '16 at 8:31
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3I already did....but I have more faith in wordpress.stackexchange ;-) – MrCalvin Feb 3 '16 at 9:30
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This will do it :-)
add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'DisableStrongPW', 100 );
function DisableStrongPW() {
if ( wp_script_is( 'wc-password-strength-meter', 'enqueued' ) ) {
wp_dequeue_script( 'wc-password-strength-meter' );
}
}
I found the solution here.
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This did not work for me. I even tried changing it to
'password-strength-meter'– Flimm May 29 at 17:21
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Just to update this answer:
add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'DisableStrongPW', 100 );
function DisableStrongPW() {
if ( wp_script_is( 'user-profile', 'enqueued' ) ) {
wp_dequeue_script( 'user-profile' );
}
}
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Did anything change? New WP version? Haven't played with WP for some time now. – MrCalvin Jun 22 at 11:24
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It can also be set in the wp_generate_password function. Just in case you use it for your own code. See: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_generate_password
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This only changes the default suggested password, it doesn't change the minimum strength required of the chosen password. – Flimm May 29 at 17:21
