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password reset link not being sent

I have wordpress 6.3. when I click the "Send password reset" link in the users menu, no email is sent. All other emails are sent, including when the user resets their own password from the ...
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Application Password not Generating!

I have installed the AppMySite plugin on Wordpress, but it won't connect fully because I need to provide AppMySite with an application password from Wordpress. I have the most recent and updated ...
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Bypass a WordPress Password Protected Page via url

I have a password protected page and I'd like to get it accessible also with a direct link with the password in url. I found this solution, and it works perfectly unless you try to access the page the ...
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My Wordpress password for admin account is changing automatically

0 Recently from few days , i'm facing a problem with wordpress admin login on my site. My wp-admin password is changing automatically after 3-4 hours. when i try to reset my password it dont sent mail ...
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How can I redirect the user to the page they were on when they clicked "Lost Password" using "retrieve_password_message" filter

I am working on a site where one specific post type is hidden behind a login. For this I used wp_login_form to replace the_content. This is working fine, but I also want to add a Lost Password link ...
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Log in a user upon password reset?

During the typical WordPress password reset flow, this is what happens: Click "Lost your password?" on /wp-login.php Enter a valid email address to get a link to reset your password. Enter ...
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Why does enabling caching break password protected pages? Is there a way around this?

I've had it on a couple of client's websites now that having page caching enabled on a page that is password protected (either using a password protecting plugin or WordPress' default behaviour) ...
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Hide/show button for the password field in the Woocommerce My Account page

How can I add a hide/show button for the password field in the Woocommerce My Account page? A button or a eye icon Thanks
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How to protect my credentials on my clients website

I work with many different clients and I know some will try other freelancers eventually. Right now, my password is stored in my clients database. Is there any way to make this process safe? I would ...
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Can you alter the default wordpress strong password requirements?

Does anyone know if you can override the default wordpress password strength expectations? We just did a migration from an old system that has a different encryption. We will need to have all users ...
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FTP Password (not private key-value pair) for EC2 Instance

I am using AWS EC2 instance and I can connect to it using username and key-value pair (file). But I'd need to connect (over Wordpress) to the server and it's asking me to enter a password. How and ...
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How to Disable Pre-population of Password on Password Reset

because of the way my site template works, I need to stop WordPress from pre-populating a new password when a user is brought back to the site, after clicking on the password reset link in the email ...
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Change password reqts with NO plugin without breaking resetpass link?

I'm trying to change password requirements in WP 6.1.1 without using a plugin. It's a clean install with just wp-cli plugin list +---------------------------------------+----------+--------+----...
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'random_password' filters not taking effect

The function below is intended to filter WordPress' default password generation however when either adding a user or resetting the password, it doesn't apply it. What am I missing? function ...
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Invalid login email notification for password-protected category

Does vanilla WordPress (no related plugins installed) supports sending email notification or logging for invalid login on password-protected category? After reading the related documemt, I found only ...
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Better way to change the default password reset url with the woocommerce one?

How can I change the default password reset url, in case the password is being reset from the wp-admin/user page? My curent solution relies on preg_replace, but there must be a better way to do it. ...
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Override the default password length when creating or updating a user profile

I may be missing something. My understanding is wp_generate_password is pluggable. When I run the function below, it doesn't change the password length in the display when adding a new user or ...
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Allow Weak Passwords

a client wants to use a very specific password and i'm trying to update it in the user page. i keep getting this error, Please choose a stronger password. Use at least 12 characters, and include ...
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Send retrieve password notification email with custom HTML email template

How to send custom HTML email for reset password? I know there will be a hook for that (retrieve_password_notification_email) But how to use it? Requesting for an example ...
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check if post is set to "password protected"

I'm trying to find a way to show different content if a post is set to "password protected", once the user entered the correct password. I want to show the price of an art piece only on ...
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Why does hashing a password result in different hashes, each time?

if I hash the same plain-text multiple times, it returns different hash strings: $x = 'asdf'; echo wp_hash_password( $x ).'<BR>'; echo wp_hash_password( $x ).'<BR>'; echo wp_hash_password( ...
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Locking Down Wordpress Application Password Permissions / Capabilities

I am working on a Wordpress installation where we recently decoupled the frontend into a NextJS application that is no longer hosted on the same domain as the admin. We are accessing data etc through ...
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Is there any point setting the keys and salts in wp-config.php?

I'm auto-generating WordPress (5.9.3) sites on a VPS. I could, as part of the generation script, create random strings for the various keys and salts in wp-config.php. However, there doesn't appear to ...
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wp_insert_user() function password never match

I am trying to use wp_insert_user() to add a user from the custom registration form. The user gets added to the database with a hashed password, but when the user is logged out and tries to use ...
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Woocommerce password Reset

The website generates an pre-worded email to the customer if they go in and change their password. The issue is that this email currently mentions an incorrect site administrator with a link.  How to ...
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How to store API authentication password?

I am connecting a WP site to a service through the service API. The API authentication of this service is done using the service account username and password, not API keys: You send a request to the ...
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Wrong activation/confirmation link in email

I've created a custom login page login.php inside the root. (e.g.: http://www.example.com/login.php) /* LOGIN PAGE. */ // Login URL. function custom_login_url($login_url, $redirect, $force_reauth ...
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I have to reset the admin password each time

IDK why, but i have to reset the admin password everytime im trying to login. The password is correctly setted in the DB, but i have to reset it each time. Please give me some help, advise, or guide ...
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Why wp_update_user doesn't update user_activation_key on users with apostrophes in their email?

Wordpress currently allows apostrophes in email addresses. However, when a user with an apostrophe in their email tries to perform a password reset, the user_activation_key is invalid. It looks as if ...
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Forgot Password/ Password Reset Page does not exist

I honestly don't know what happened but recently the "Forgot Password" page that you go to to reset your password (usually from an email link) no longer exists. The link that is sent by ...
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Password changed [duplicate]

It comes every half hour a e-mail with „password changed“. What is this? How can i shut it out?
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Password minimum length in personal subscription [closed]

I have a personal registration area. I already have a condition to check that the password and the password confirmation are identical. I wanted to add a condition to check that the password does not ...
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After limiting the access to my wp-login.php by IP through .htaccess, all my password-protected posts stopped working. What's the best solution now?

To avoid brute force and illegal access to my WordPress website, I've limited the access to the wp-login.php script by IP addresses, using the .htaccess file. In other words, only certain IPs can ...
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Enable Update button only when password is shown strong

Would like to find out here if there is any way I can disable the "Update" button under "Account Management" and enable it until a Strong password is detected as shown in the ...
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Custom Password Reset

I am building a function that should send the user an email with a password-reset-link in it (I am just using it after registration because I don't want my user to set his password while registrating)....
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Remove password protected posts from default RSS feed

I want to remove all password protected posts from the default RSS feed. Unfortunately I was only able to find one code example, but it looks like something is missing. function rss_filter_protected( $...
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Send user auto generated password on different email

On one of my websites, I'm trying to customize different email content like user activation email/new user registration email. Basically, on the activation email, it sends an activation link with the ...
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change user password REST API

I am trying to let a user change their password via the API. What it looks like here is that I can send a POST request to the users endpoint with their user ID at the end, sending the new password in ...
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Go to / Scroll to Password Field on WordPress Posts After Submit With Message(s)

I have, based on post category, added a password form (shortcode) whereof the purpose is to hide certain HTML code. To do this, I have wrapped certain HTML-tags in a shortcode using the the_content ...
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How do I create a function that modifies a message in the wp-login.php file?

When a user uses the password reset functionality in WordPress, they are asked to enter their email and click confirm. After doing so, they get the message: Check your email for the confirmation link,...
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Multiple Password Portal Page BEFORE User Account Set Up

I am trying to create a page that is kinda complicated. First, you need to be referred. So the first page is just a blank log in portal. You would use the referral code to log in. Each member gets ...
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Migrate Users From laravel to wordpress

we used Laravel before , and now we are moving to Wordpress, so we need to migrate all users including the passwords , is this possible? thanks
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Use Password Protected Form without the use of wp-login.php

I need to password protect a page, but from what I looked up -- the action of the form needs to use something like this: action="' . esc_url( site_url( 'wp-login.php?action=postpass', 'login_post'...
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When I enter password, I'm redirected to the WordPress login form

I have a page at http://localhost/wix/dss/ when I enter, I get redirected to http://localhost/wix/wp-login.php with the error message Error: The password you entered for the username ak is incorrect....
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How to get user password before being encrypted outside the wordpress core once add a new user from dashboard?

I'm trying to match users' data in multiple wordpress applications, so when user created on one app the same user should be created on the other apps. Here is the problem, I need to get the new ...
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I need help with wp_lostpassword, wp_register and wp_login_form

The first problem if there are no values or there is an error when I submit it brings me back to the default WP login is there a way to stop this? is there a way to echo the lost password form and ...
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Adding parameters to password reset key

I'm trying to add in parameters to the url generated for password reset for a user. In this case I wanted to add a &lang parameter to determine a users selected language and set a cookie. How do I ...
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How to Remove or Deactivate "Application Passwords" in WordPress

With version 5.6, I got this new weird "Application Passwords" under all user profiles. No idea what it is and what it does except for what it says -- and I want it gone. If anyone knows how ...
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How do I get WordPress login to ignore the password input if a particular username is used?

I am trying to build a login where users with an account number as their username can login without a password or email. When the user clicks login, if the username that has been input exists in the ...
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How to make WP page accessile only to specific user roles

I am creating a website that consists of a "Home Page" (public) that has a login link to the WP login page, then, there will be different pages that are only accessible to specific logged ...
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