Questions tagged [login]
Refers to the act of gaining access to a WordPress site, as well as the WordPress account itself.
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Check if wp-login is current page
How can I check if the current page is wp-login.php or wp-signup.php ?
Are there more elegant solutions than using $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?
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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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Is there a hook that runs after a user logs in?
I am writing a plugin that fetches some extended user info from a remote service and I need it to execute its function each time a user logs in.
Is there a hook that gets fired after login that I can ...
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wp_enqueue_script was called incorrectly
I don't know how but now I am getting this error :
Notice: wp_enqueue_style was called
incorrectly. Scripts and styles should not be registered or enqueued
until the wp_enqueue_scripts, ...
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Can't log in: "ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress."
After a server move, I'm unable to log in to my site. I get the "ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress." error when I try submitting the ...
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What's the easiest way to stop WP from ever logging me out
After a certain amount of time WP logs out all users and forces them to log back in again. For development environments on my local machine this is obnoxious and absolutely unnecessary.
Is there an ...
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Is there any way to rename or hide wp-login.php?
Any way to change the wp-login.php url? It seems insecure that everyone that's ever used Wordpress could easily see if your site is using it, and get right to the login page.
There used to be a ...
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How to login with email only no username?
After searching for a couple of days and reading 2 year old threads I'm having difficulty finding a solution to the problem of having users login by email only.
At first I was delighted to see ...
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Check if user is logged in using JQuery
I want to execute custom jquery code which shows login dialog to user if he clicks a button and he is not logged in. How could I do that?
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How can I redirect user after entering wrong password?
I'm using wp_login_form() to display login form in a jQuery dialog window.
If user enters wrong password, the user is taken to the backend. I don't want that. Is there a way to notify user that he ...
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Increase of failed login attempts, brute force attacks? [closed]
I Installed the plugin Simple Login Lockdown and since a couple of days ago the database is recording over 200 records by day.
I think that is not possible to have my site attacked by so many IP's
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Login page ERROR: Cookies are blocked due to unexpected output
I have a WordPress website that I recently discovered had this error on the login page:
ERROR: Cookies are blocked due to unexpected output. For help, please
see this documentation or try the ...
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Add "Logout" link to navigation menu
How can I add a link to the primary navigation menu with the class="right" attribute?
I tried to add a static link to example.com/wp-logout.php?action=logout but that leads to a logout confirmation ...
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Redirect user to original url after login?
I have a function that redirects users to the login page (home) if they're trying to access any other page without being logged in, here's how it works:
function restrict_access_if_logged_out(){
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Separate registration and login for different roles
I've set 2 new roles for my site using the "Members" plugin - "sellers" and "buyers".
Each role should have its own registration page and login.
A visitor can register as both a buyer and a seller ...
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User registration followed by automatic login
I am using a plugin modified for my purposes.
What I am after is after the user has registered for it to automatically log them in and return them to the current page. At the moment it sends them an ...
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SSO / authentication integration with external 'directory service'
I'm about to start working on a prototype for a client - and one of the required features is integration with an in-house user authentication / registration system.
This system will act as the ...
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Preventing session timeout
Not sure if this is a bug or by design, but it's damn annoying. Every so often, more so after updating the core, while in the admin section, I get booted out with the infamous "Your session has ...
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Redirect loop when trying to login to /wp-admin/ [duplicate]
Stuck in an infinite loop when trying to log in to my wordpress site. I type in the URL/wp-admin and then it loops me back to the regular website, not the admin login page.
I have tried with http ...
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Disallow user from editing their own profile information
I'm currently developing an intranet and I am using Justin Tadlock's Members plugin to control roles and capabilities.
I have created a HR role to allow Human Resources staff to create and edit user ...
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How reduce wordpress login session timeout time?
I want to logout user autometically when user is idle for more than 10 minutes.That mean suppose user is logged in to a site and user didn't browse any pages for more than 10 mins.when he browse any ...
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How to prefill WordPress registration with social details
I created custom registration process in WordPress with a lot of extra fields like first name, last name etc.
I would like to make integration with Facebook/LinkedIn so first name, last name, email, ...
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Check for correct username on custom login form
I have used Jeff Star's tutorial for creating my own custom login form http://digwp.com/2010/12/login-register-password-code/. It works great, but I have one problem. On the reset password form, if ...
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Is there a is_user_logged_in() for multisite?
Is there a is_user_logged_in() function for Wordpress MU / Multisite (3.0+) where I can add in the network site ID like is_user_logged_in(2) where 2 would be the site_id?
Update:
After a little ...
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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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Enqueue a stylesheet for login page and make it appear in head element
I try to style the login page in my theme. Very simple:
add_action( 'login_enqueue_scripts', function()
{
wp_enqueue_style( 'TEST', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/login.css' );
});
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I can't access my site via wp-admin
I developed a site six months ago and now need to update it, but I can't access the login page to get in to it.
I get a the following error page:
This is somewhat embarrassing...
I tried wp-...
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'Password field is empty' error when using autofill in Chrome
When I open the login screen on Chrome, the browser automatically fills the form with my username and password. However, when I hit the submit button, I get the following message:
ERROR: The ...
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Removing username from the 'wordpress_logged_in' cookie
I am working with a client with some strict security measures. After undergoing security review, we were notified that the user name stored in the logged in cookie, e.g.
wordpress_logged_in[username]|...
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How to show 'login error' and 'lost password' on my template page?
I'm providing front-end login in a template, using the function wp_login_form. It handles the redirection after login and logout pretty neatly! But if the username / password mismatch, or are non ...
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Custom login form
I am very new to WordPress. I am trying to display a login form in the header section of my website. However, when I look at all of the files in my directory it is very overwhelming and I am afraid to ...
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How to prefill the username/password fields on the login page
For a demo environment, I would like to pre-fill the username and password fields of the wp-login form with respectively "demo" and "demo" string.
Thus users will just need to click on the "Log-in" ...
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How do I require authorization / login to view a specific set of posts / pages?
I am working on a wordpress site for a client who wants an internal 'intranet' for his employees. The basic needs are:
Communicate things in-house
House important company documents
Provide quick ...
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How to redirect/rewrite all /wp-login requests
Is there any simple way to have wordpress, php or apache rewrite all urls which involve /wp-admin to /admin?
I have added this entry to my .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^admin /wp-login.php [L]
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How to change "You must be logged in to post a comment."
Some of my users have mentioned that my site is confusing for them. As this is the case, I would like to actually make links to Login/Register for my unregistered visitors to quickly do so if they ...
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What is $interim_login?
I found an $interim_login variable within the wp-login.php file, and I'm not sure what it does or what it is. The documentation around the interwebs is pretty sparse.
What is $interim_login?
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Login redirect to previous page
I have a custom login page at http://netballscoop.com/log-in/
When you fill the username and password it redirects you to the previous page you were on perfectly. When you click Log Out it redirects ...
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Unable to login to my wordpress site. reauth=1 redirection loop
There was a similar post to this, however the solution did not work for me.
I am having some difficulty logging into my WordPress site. When I attempt to visit example.com/wp-admin, I see the login ...
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Prevent wp_login_form() from redirecting to wp-admin when there are errors
I have made a login form on the front-end of my site using wp_login_form(). However, when the user types in an incorrect username/password they are redirected to the wp-admin login form.
How can you ...
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wp_signon returns user, but the user is not logged in
I use wp_signon() and it returns a user, not an error. However when I do is_user_logged_in() it returns false.
Help would be very much appreciated :)
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What exactly is ReAuth?
Searching for "WordPress Reauth" and the like all result in folks who are having problems with ReAuth=1. What exactly is ReAuth?
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How to protect pages with double authentication: password + email (in custom field)
I would like to extend the WordPress password protection of posts by adding extra input field for user email.
So in order to see the content user will have to know the password and previously given ...
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Can someone explain what wp_session_tokens are, and what are they used for?
I am trying to understand how WordPress determines where a user is logged in or not? I read that it's done using just the cookies; but with WordPress 4, there's a new addition: wp_session_tokens. I ...
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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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Redirect to referring page after logging in
I am not using any custom login plugins or any bespoke code. A few of my pages have got this bit of code in them at the very beginning.
<?php
if(!is_user_logged_in())
wp_redirect('/...
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Replacing the Wordpress password validation
I have a custom application with thousands of users who already have a password stored. I would like to set up a self hosted wordpress site to accompany that application and to use the usernames and ...
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How to check in timber if user is loggedin?
How to check if there is a user is loggedin? Normaly you do this like:
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { // do something }
but how you do this within a Timber template? some thing like?:
{% if ...
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Is there a hook before the user is authenticated?
I'm looking for a hook that can be used before WP reads the DB to authenticate the user's login credentials, but can't seem to find one anywhere. Does one exist?
I tried add_filter/action('...
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Redirect user using the 'wp_login_failed' action hook if the error is 'empty_username' or 'empty_password'
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I'm attempting to make a seemless frontend login for a blog, while still leaving wp-login.php available to those users who know how to get there. wp-login.php is also required to ...
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wp_signon() does not authenticate user guidance needed
I use form to send POST request to a page and to login user with wp_signon() in order to authenticate user to my wordpress installation as described in WP documentation:
$creds = array();
$creds['...
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