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Where is function to prevents non logged users access wp-admin?

You will need to use the authenticate filter: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/authenticate add_filter( ‘authenticate’, ‘myplugin_auth_signon’, 30, 3 ); function myplugin_auth_signon( $user, $username, $password ) { return $user; } Return a WP_Error object to indicate failure or an issue, or a WP_User object on success. There are also 2 core functions hooked into that filter that will need removing … Read more

Where is the php file, that does the checks for login information?

You don’t want to be messing around with that. Look at the following hook: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/wp_login You should do something like: function check_test_user() { // Your code here } add_action(‘wp_login’, ‘check_test_user’); The hook will run as part of the Login process and saves you modifying core WordPress files.

How are readers authenticated for leaving comments?

By default passwords are encrypted using 8 passes of MD5. There are other ways to configure the password encryption. (https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_hash_password) The hashes are based on custom keys setup in the wp-config file when creating the site. They are stored locally and not on WordPress.com You can make users register to leave comments or you can … Read more

Where to store credentials used in a function? [duplicate]

You could store it as variables $account_id = ‘your_account_id’; $password = ‘your password’; someFunction($account_id, $password); Or store it in {$table_prefix}_options table and retrieve it by get_option function $account_id = get_option(‘account_id’); $password = get_option(‘password’); someFunction($account_id, $password); You could save this values, for example from admin panel, by update_option function. Second option is better, because you can … Read more

Getting Authentication required popup

Found the answer for this issue. This appears to be happening to users that are using Chrome and/or WebHostingPad websites. Google released an update that essentially broke the popup by no longer displaying the information needed to get past the popup. Open the page in another browser, I’ve used IE, then the login information required … Read more

Allow Access to Home Page and Login Screen but Nothing Else (unless logged in)

Option 1 – WP Nav Menus In your portal page template (or even in your header template) you can use wp_nav_menu() combined with is_user_logged_in() to print one of two menus. wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => is_user_logged_in() ? ‘logged-in-menu’ : ‘logged-out-menu’ ) ); Now you’ll need to create two menus in the WordPress admin under Appearance > … Read more

Best Authetication between REST API and Mobile App

JWT Authentication is very Popular and easy to config. For Two Factor Authentication use this JWT Athhentication Plugin .

wp-json API: not logged in when clicking link to the API from admin mode

I needed to include the nonce in the URL. Solved it by adding ?_wpnonce=<?= wp_create_nonce( ‘wp_rest’ ); ?> to my URL. There is some info here, but I thought the nonuce wasn’t needed unless I tried to alter data, or something like that. That the WordPress authentication cookie would be enough.

Secruity Questions on a timer

Since the ‘timer’ has to execute on the client side, then you will need to find some JavaScript that will ‘run’ the timer and pop up the box. You can’t do this with PHP code (WP filters, hooks, themes, plugins), because PHP runs on the server, not the browser. Browser side stuff has to be … Read more

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