Questions tagged [authentication]
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Can I programmatically login a user without a password?
I'm manually creating users programmatically, and I want to sign in the newly created user. WP makes it easy to access the hashed password, but not the plaintext version. Is there a way to use ...
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How to: Make JWT-authenticated requests to the Wordpress API
This is not really a question but a guide on how to make authenticated requests to the Wordpress API using JWT. I'm writing this as a reminder to myself and for those who may need some help with the ...
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How to secure or disable the RSS feeds?
I'm trying to set up WordPress as a CMS. As such, I want to disable the feeds since it's mostly a secured site. I've gone through all the Settings pages but found no setting to tweak or disable the ...
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Set up WP Authentication from External API
There’s an existing non-WP site, and I need their users to be able to log in on my new Wordpress site with the same credentials they already have.
I have been provided with an endpoint (www.example-...
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Extend Wordpress (4.x) session and nonce
We've got a small web application that allows users to log in (via WordPress) and remain logged in for a max 15 min session for security purposes. Because most sessions will last longer, I have a ...
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Override user authentication with external credentials
I'm working on a site running WordPress along with a vBulletin forum. The user base is registered on vBulletin. I need to allow users to appear logged in on WordPress as well for the sole purpose of ...
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why does WordPress need two cookies for auth/login
I can see two cookies: auth and login cookies in wordpress. Why do we need two?
I think one is enough.
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JWT authentication with WP - Approach
We're using JWT (JSON Web Token) for authenticating our WordPress application with an external service. The current flow we're thinking of is like this:
The user signs in on the the parent site
The ...
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WordPress auto login after registration not working
I looked up a bunch of threads trying to figure out how to automatically log a user in after registration, and came up with this.
function automatically_log_me_in( $user_id ) {
$user = ...
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Adding extra authentication field in login page
I am going to enhance my WordPress authentication page. My idea is that simply adding an extra field into the login page. The extra field will require user to enter personal identification code (4 to ...
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Using JWT to authenticate a user with an external system?
We have a WordPress application which is going to be linked with a parent system. We want to use JWT for authenticating with the parent. The idea is, if the user is not logged in on the parent, he ...
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How to transition cookies from .subdomain.domain.com to .domain.com with minimal impact on users?
I need to extend the cookies of a subdomain.domain.com to all of the domain.com's subdomains (.domain.com in cookie terms).
I am trying to minimize the impact of this transition. It seems that ...
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How to use OAuth authentication with REST API via CURL commands?
I am trying to use the WordPress Rest Api with authentication to get more data from the API. I have installed the Oauth plugin, rest-api plugin, and gotten API credentials from WP-CLI.
I have ...
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How to Change the Default Home Page for the WordPress Dashboard?
Is it possible to change the Default "Home" admin page when logging into the WordPress Dashboard?
I thought about a couple of possibilities...
Substitute the content on the Dashboard home page with ...
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authentication issue with rest api - rest_cannot_create
I am using the rest api in Wordpress. For authentication I use the Basic authentication plugin (JSON Basic Authentication)
I use this request (from both postman and nodejs):
POST /wp-json/wp/v2/...
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WP REST API: check if user is logged in
The idea is to show or hide some sections of the site in a theme that's fetching all data from the REST API, using AngularJS.
I thought this check would help me (nonce is passed as header, as ...
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How to Authenticate WP REST API with JWT Authentication using Fetch API
My goal is to send user comments with a POST request from a server-side Lambda function to my WordPress API. I'm using Gatsby and Netlify.
When someone leaves a comment in the comment form of my ...
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Authentication / login mechanism (non wp-admin)
I am developing a theme. I need to have a user login system, that allows users to see all contents of the application and interact with it only after they login (not admin panel login).
I need to ...
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WordPress as a OAuth Provider
I have just started to read on OAuth as I need to integrate it within a WordPress web app. As per my understanding of OAuth, signed requests are sent between the client and the server. These signed ...
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Can I authenticate with both WooCommerce consumer key and JWT?
I want to authenticate against both:
the WooCommerce consumer key, for system queries and
JSON Web Tokens (JWT), for user queries
I have installed JWT Authentication for WP REST API. But after ...
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How to leverage authentication outside of WordPress?
I have a situation where I would like to authenticate against the WP_users table from outside of WP.
Basically I have username and password fields on a static php page outside of wordpress and need ...
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custom REST endpoints and application passwords
I have created a number of RESTful endpoints via a plugin. To date I have only accessed them from the host site. However I would like to access these endpoints from a sub-domaine(2ed Wordpress ...
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How do I authenticate WP users from a chrome extension?
I'm new to WordPress, and I need help. I am writing a chrome extension and intend to use wordpress as the user database. I intend that because I'm using a subscription management WP plugin that keeps ...
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add action which returns modified value
I want to modify submited password in wp_logon wp_authenticate action.
When authenticating, I want to grab submited password, modify it, and pass back to wp_logon
So here is an action
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Authentication for a mobile app connected via wp-rest api?
Building a cordova (HTML/JS) based mobile app (not-native) and I want to use wordpress only as the backend.
The idea is that mobile app users will be making requests to the API and custom endpoints ...
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Authentication for wordpress website
i am developing android app for website, and have done coding for login page which contains username and password for my website(Job Roller), i have stuck up in validating and authenticating the ...
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