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How to change “You must be logged in to post a comment.”

You can try to modify it with the comment_form_defaults filter: /** * Modify the “must_log_in” string of the comment form. * * @see http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/170492/26350 */ add_filter( ‘comment_form_defaults’, function( $fields ) { $fields[‘must_log_in’] = sprintf( __( ‘<p class=”must-log-in”> You must <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/170490/%s”>Register</a> or <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/170490/%s”>Login</a> to post a comment.</p>’ ), wp_registration_url(), wp_login_url( apply_filters( ‘the_permalink’, get_permalink() ) … Read more

What is $interim_login?

The variable $interim_login is TRUE when the log-in session of a user expires while she is working in the back end, for example during an auto-save action. In this case a message asking to log in again appears at the bottom of the editor: The same can happen in the theme customizer. The $_REQUEST variable … Read more

How do I require authorization / login to view a specific set of posts / pages?

This is just a modification of timshutes’ answer – if you want specific pages to require login and don’t want to put them into a custom post type, you can add to functions.php: add_shortcode(‘need_login’, ‘shortcode_needLogin’); function shortcode_needLogin() { if (!is_user_logged_in()) { auth_redirect(); } } And then at the top of the pages you want to … Read more

How to show ‘login error’ and ‘lost password’ on my template page?

Yes it’s possible. You have to create three filters for this. Admin stuff inside a class class WPSE29338_Admin { public static function setup() { add_filter(‘login_url’, array(__CLASS__, ‘modifyLoginURL’), 10, 2); add_filter(‘lostpassword_url’, array(__CLASS__, ‘modifyLostPasswordURL’), 10, 2); add_filter(‘register’, array(__CLASS__, ‘modifyRegisterURL’)); } public static function modifyLoginURL($loginUrl, $redirect=””) { $loginUrl = site_url(‘login’); // Link to login URL if(!empty($redirect)) { $loginUrl … Read more

Removing username from the ‘wordpress_logged_in’ cookie

Short introduction After quick look inside WP source code, I think I’ve found solution… WordPress uses two functions to set and parse auth cookies: wp_generate_auth_cookie wp_parse_auth_cookie There is a filter in wp_generate_auth_cookie called auth_cookie which you probably could use to change the contents of cookie, but there is no filter inside wp_parse_auth_cookie, but… Both of … Read more

‘Password field is empty’ error when using autofill in Chrome

The JavaScript function wp_attempt_focus is causing this issue. The function fires shortly after page load, clears the form and focuses on it, forcing users to manually enter their login information. Chrome is filling in the username and password automatically, just milliseconds before the JS function clears the field. Chrome does not properly pick up the … Read more

I can’t access my site via wp-admin

Try disabling all your plugins by moving or deleting them from your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. Do this by FTP or by your host’s control panel. If this doesn’t work, log in to the server via FTP, and upload a fresh copy of WordPress. This will fix your wp-admin, and any other folders or files that have … Read more

Disallow user from editing their own profile information

great answer, to take this a step further and for anyone looking to apply this to all non-admin users (e.g. contributers, editors etc.) // ===== remove edit profile link from admin bar and side menu and kill profile page if not an admin if( !current_user_can(‘activate_plugins’) ) { function mytheme_admin_bar_render() { global $wp_admin_bar; $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu(‘edit-profile’, ‘user-actions’); } … Read more

Enqueue a stylesheet for login page and make it appear in head element

For every enqueue action, there is a corresponding print_styles action: wp_enqueue_scripts → wp_print_styles admin_enqueue_scripts → admin_print_styles customize_controls_enqueue_scripts → customize_controls_print_styles Not for the login page. There is no login_print_styles action or function, so your stylesheets are thrown out on do_action( ‘login_footer’ );. But there is a simple fix: if ( ! has_action( ‘login_enqueue_scripts’, ‘wp_print_styles’ ) ) … Read more

How to Change the Default Home Page for the WordPress Dashboard?

Easy enough, decided to just do the redirect option. I used the wp_login action hook. You could also probably use this for redirecting your users to ANY page on your website. You can also check user capabilities from the $user Object passed in as a function parameter if you want to send different user levels … Read more

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