First of all, I would advise against editing the core files as it will be overwritten when you next update WordPress. Also, you should update WordPress, because it will often include security updates. (It’s recently been reported that there has been a spate of attacks on sites using outdated WordPress versions) In order to achieve … Read more
When you set a post as password protected, the protection happen on get_the_content() function. There WordPress check for a post password cookie, and if not set, not valid or expired then show the password form. This password form is submitted to wp-login.php, there a cookie is setted according to the password wrote in the form, … Read more
get_currentuserinfo() didn’t work for me. I’ve written about this problem and solution at my blog: http://blog.rhysgoodwin.com/programming/wordpress-wp_signon-current_user-is-not-populated/ Cheers, Rhys
To answer you question as a apache URL layout configuration via mod_rewrite (the apache module that handles URL rewriting), this could be helpful: RewriteRule ^admin/(.*)$ /wp-admin/$1 [QSA,L] (untested configuration directive, check the docs in case this does errors) This will basically translate any request to /admin/… into /wp-admin/… . If that’s the only thing you … Read more
The Result Username You can declare the form field value global and prefill it. This will override any setting done via the “Remember me”-Checkbox. /** * Changes the default user name to “DEMO” * * @return string $user_login */ function login_form_username() { global $user_login; return $user_login = ‘DEMO’; } add_action( ‘login_head’, ‘login_form_username’ ); Password I … Read more
The login form is a simple html form sending username and password to wp-login.php. This is the simplest way to create a custom login form: <?php $redirect_to = ”; ?> <form name=”loginform” id=”loginform” action=”<?php echo site_url( ‘/wp-login.php’ ); ?>” method=”post”> <p>Username: <input id=”user_login” type=”text” size=”20″ value=”” name=”log”></p> <p>Password: <input id=”user_pass” type=”password” size=”20″ value=”” name=”pwd”></p> <p><input … Read more
You can filter the login_redirect function like so, adapt according to your needs. add_filter(‘login_redirect’, ‘redirect_previous_page’, 10, 1); function redirect_previous_page( $redirect_to ){ global $user; $request = $_SERVER[“HTTP_REFERER”]; if ( in_array( $user->roles[0], array( ‘administrator’) ) ) { return admin_url(); } elseif ( in_array( $user->roles[0], array( ‘subscriber’) ) ) { return $request; } return $redirect_to; } Update 1: … Read more
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
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
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