WordPress password as plain text in email

No, WordPress passwords are not stored in plain text. They’re stored as hashes generated by an old version of PHPass, which I think does multiple rounds of salted MD5 hashes. You cannot extract the original password from this, by design. See Why shouldn’t I store passwords in plain text? on Information Security StackExchange. If you … Read more

Wordpres password as plain text in email

No, WordPress passwords are not stored in plain text. They’re stored as hashes generated by an old version of PHPass, which I think does multiple rounds of salted MD5 hashes. You cannot extract the original password from this, by design. See Why shouldn’t I store passwords in plain text? on Information Security StackExchange. If you … Read more

How do I count the number of pages a user has seen on my site, and force them to log in after a certain amount

Background Gating unauthenticated end-user’s ability to view site content based on the activity of such users is a difficult problem to solve reliably, owed to the design of web technologies as a whole. To the best of my knowledge, WordPress core provides no features which require any such functionality, and so there are no core … Read more