How are you searching for this user? Either way, this it the function you want to use, as it can look via ID, user_nicename, email and login. e.g.: $userEmail = $_GET[‘useremail’]; $field = ’email’; $user = get_user_by( $field, $userEmail ); if(!$user) { $newUserArgs = array( ‘user_login’ => $_GET[‘userlogin’], ‘user_pass’ => $_GET[‘hashedpass’], ‘user_email’ => $_GET[‘useremail’] ); … Read more
You can use the function <?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { //load your page here } else{ echo (“Please <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/126871/.wp_login_url().”>Login</a> First”); }?>
Would this free plugin help? http://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protected/ Perhaps you can use turn on the simple login for admins (requires password), then write a custom redirection script by modifying the plugin or add to functions.php so that if the password is correct, they are logged into a specific URL instead of the dashboard.
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I believe this is due to WordPress already seeing an admin user in the global user table, so on install, it won’t show a spot for a username. I was actually just messing with this exact same setup, and came across the same issue. If these are two both brand new site setups, you could … Read more