Questions tagged [password]
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Send clear password via mail
I need to send an email whenever a user is added or registers containing its clear password.
I know it's a bad idea in terms of security but I need to do it for a private project.
Any idea? Should I ...
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How can I change the email that is inside the default email texts of wordpress?
Wordpress sends some various default email texts to the users.
For example when the password reset email has been sent, then the user gets an automatic email like this:
Hello user, This notification ...
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How to customize the Lost Password URL?
I have a WordPress website on which I have changed the default login url from “mydomain.com/wp-login.php” to “mydomain.com/login”.
Currently my lost password URL is at “mydomain.com/login?action=’...
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Wordpress admin creation through phpmyadmin not working
So I have searched extensively on this, but all the answers do not work for me.
I bought a website from someone, he installed it on my hosting, but did not provide me with the admin login. He is now ...
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Auto refresh of a password protected page
In Wordpress, is it possible to auto-refresh a password protected page, such that the password only needs to be entered the first time the page is accessed?
I know how to password protect a page.
I ...
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Moving users from joomla to wordpress
Situation: I am tasked with creating a new site for a local newspaper. The current site is running on Joomla. The only functionality it has is a paid (paypal) user login to read PDF's of the new ...
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Redirecting to a custom forgot password page
I have created a custom login and registration page with the plugin 'User Registration' and they both work perfectly fine, however, on the login page if I click on the ‘Forgot password’ link, it takes ...
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Adding a Cookie Session to Shortcode Content
I have a shortcode which "wraps" <pre> and <code> content in a password array. This was created a while back and I'm struggling on how to add a cookie or some sort of session ...
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Change password notification email
By default, when customer changed their password using "Lost your password?" link, an email notification saying "Password changed for user: ***" will be sent to Admin's email address. Is there way to ...
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Password Protected Pages Don't Accept A Valid Password After Changing The Password
I have a password protected page which I recently was asked by my client to change the password. The password protection is done from the WordPress dashboard by using the Status and visibility option ...
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Requiring a Visitor to Enter a Password Each Time They visit a Page
the pandemic has changed my role within my company so that I'm now doing all of our WordPress development, despite having zero training with WordPress. Feel free to include any comments about my boss'...
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Force user to change their password on the frontend at the first login and password policy
I have 3 users roles on my platform with no access to the WordPress backoffice "external_user1" , "external_user2", "external_user3".
I need to force every user with one of this roles to change his ...
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How to redirect user to specific page based on the input password
I would like to ask if anyone has a ready solution for WP or recommend a plugin for password-based pages, namely:
I create:
a) subpage 1 and a password for it, e.g. 1234
b) subpage 2 and a password ...
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Correct passwords keep appearing as incorrect
I don't know why passwords are not working... Every time a user registers on my website, their accounts are verified easily but the same passwords they use to register appear as incorrect.
I have ...
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Login form does not store/remember/suggest users password
I'm struggling (very much struggling) to find a fix for my issue. I'm using WP 5.4.1 with PointFinder theme. The problem is that even if the 'remember me' checkbox is turned on, users have to fill the ...
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Allow Access To Password Protected Pages Only Once
I'd like to modify the built-in password protected functionality in Wordpress to only allow the set password to be used one time. Something that either disables the password or changes it after the ...
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Automatic chage password of pages after some time
Hello any idea how to make a page I publish to chage the password after 2 days automatically (I am looking for a plugin or something else I can implement)? Right now I am using the pages to present ...
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How do I remove the eye icon that shows visibility on login screen and reset password screen
I'm looking for a way to remove the eye icon that shows visibility on login screen (wp-admin and wp-login) and reset password screen (/wp-login.php?action=rp).
As you can see on the screenshot below :...
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Can we store password in without being hashing?
Actually I'm not against hashing but I'm sending user data from website A to website B for being same username and password. In such scenario when I extract password from website A it is already ...
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Save Custom Password Protected Page Entries to Database
I'm building a custom form to access a password protected page (adding two fields: Company and Email) and I would like to save all the entries into the Database.
It's only saving to the database ...
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Is there a maximum length to user passwords?
In the database, the hashed password is stored in a field that can store up to 60 characters.
My question: is there an upper character limit on the unhashed (user-chosen) passwords, or will the ...
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Automatically Mirror User Password Changes from Live to Staging Database
If a member resets their password, this will do so on our Live site, which is fine.
However, this won't affect their account on the Staging site. If we then push live from Staging (using Siteground's ...
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I would like to use an email address as the post password
Post password allows me to set it as an email address in the admin, but when I enter the email address in the post password on the frontend and submit it does not allow viewing of content. Cookie ...
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How to get WordPress to send Password Reset Link Email instead of New Password?
My WordPress configuration generates a new password and sends it via email whenever a user uses Forgot Password link.
How can I make WordPress send a Reset Password link instead of a new password?
I ...
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Password Protected Page Not Displaying Content After Entering Password
For reason unbeknownst to me (I'm not the original developer). This custom WordPress site doesn't show the password protected login form..."This content is password protected! To view it please enter ...
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Preserve password hashes when migrating to another server
We have a couple hundred clients (each client is a site) and across them about 15,000 users. We are migrating from Plesk on Centos/Apache PHP 7.0.1 to AWS on Ubuntu/Nginx PHP 7.4.4.
We are migrating ...
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Giving permission to anyone (non-users as well) with a password to edit a post, possible?
I would like to make possible to any visitors (non-users) to create a custom post from the WP frontend, then get a password in email which can let him/her edit the post if the proper password is given....
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Create Member who can't be changed
we need on single account which we may share with a group of people. we don't want that tey are able to change anything (password, name). They sould only view some protected information. We can't use ...
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How to really secure protecting single sites with an passwort? (How to not leak password in cookie?)
If you protect a Wordpress page with a password, it seems that this password is stored as a hash in the cookie wp-postpass_.... This is valid for 10 days. Even if it has expired, you can extend its ...
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wp_set_password() does not work!
I created a simple form for my users to can change their passwords. but there is a problem and I am confused! I tried a lot to change my password but my pass will not be changed by wp_set_password() ...
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wp_hash_password create a different hash everytime
I've already seen this topic: wp_hash_password unexpected behaviour
And the problem is similar.
I'm creating an API system where api_key and api_secret are the same as username and user_pwd. The ...
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How do I email a new page password to somebody every month?
I want to email the new page password to somebody every month. I see no reason why this cannot be adapted.
First I guess I need to change this:
add_filter( 'cron_schedules', function( $schedules )
{...
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How to use wp_set_password in a plugin?
I am developing a private plugin for my multisite installation. I want the user to be able to update their WP password from the plugin settings page. I've tried a few things without luck. In the ...
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What are the default WordPress password requirements?
My users have the ability to change their password from a plugin admin screen. I want to make sure the password they create meets whatever the minimum requirements are. I'm not trying to change the ...
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Could a user account with a stolen password compromised entire WP site?
Assuming a user with Subscriber role account with a weak password has been hacked. So, can someone use this account to compromise a WP site?
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Automatically change the page password for more than one page
This relates to this post - Automatically change page password
Can this be applied to multiple pages instead of just one?
I have changed the slug to the below but it doesn't seem to work:
$slug = ...
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Prevent reset password specific user role
I have user role "b2b_account". I want to prevent user who have role b2b_account to reset their password.
Here my code
add_filter( 'allow_password_reset', 'filter_function_name_2698', 10, 2 );
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Is there any way to get a variable for $current_user password to send a post request to endpoint?
I've tried the code below but wordpress only send the hash password, so the endpoint response is 404 (not found).
function identify_user() {
$url = 'http://spring-app-build:8080/api/auth/login';
if (...
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How to change lost password email text using custom plugin wordpress?
In wordpress, i want to add one extra parameter(ABC) in lost password link with key (lost password email text).
I have added many hooks.
add_action( 'password_reset', 'password_reset_hook', 10, 2 );
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Sending Reset Password email via Web API
Due to company's security set up of the emails coming from the external hosting, it's needed to send password reset emails through internal email server, for that the email content needs to be sent to ...
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Can i add password field into my wp registration form?
I would like to users can choose their own password on registration form and disable sending generated password email to them.
Here it is my custom registration code:
<form id="register-form" ...
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Blocking wp-login in HTACCESS has also blocked password protected pages
We recently blocked all IP addresses except mine and the company owner's from getting to /wp-login.php except today we discovered this has inadvertently blocked any other password protected page. By ...
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Show MD5 Password in user section
Im trying to show the MD5 Password of the users as you see them in the database but in the users table as an extra column.
I have previusly done with the ID like this:
add_action( '...
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How to verify wp user password by sql query in wp? [closed]
I want to verify the user password without function only by the SQL query.
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Login/password protected “client page”
I need to implement a functionality where admin will be able to create posts, and for each of them generate login and password for the client. The only way to reach them from the front end will be by "...
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How can I port class-phpass.php in Java?
I have a Java app that needs to check with a Wordpress MariaDB database for usernames and passwords. To do authentication into the WP framework, I need the password hashing for Wordpress; my app is ...
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How to invalidate `password reset key` after being used
I am trying to write my own lost password plugin. It is working perfectly. But how can I invalidate the reset key after being used once. Currently I am able to set new password as many times as I wish ...
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Reset Wordpress admin users to limit access
I have a client with a Wordpress website currently hosted on Siteground. They are worried that someone else has access to their Wordpress admin user account (only one user I can see in the back end) ...
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Temporary access to page with URL sent to email
I want to protect a certain page with a password. The thing is that I want to get it unlocked to users who have an active booking (I'm using WooCommerce Bookings). I have thought that a good idea ...
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Change Password Confirmed Email Text
I've been struggling to find a hook I can use to edit the text in the password confirmed email that gets sent out when you've changed your password in WordPress.
Is there anyway to do this with a ...
