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I need to find which is the file that checks the DB for correct login (username, password)

wp_authenticate_username_password in wp-includes/user.php and wp_check_password in pluggable.php I would advise against meddling with these though unless you’re removing the wordpress user authentification and putting your own in, e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-ldap-login/. For the best part, not using the admin username, making the first account a non super admin, not using wp_ database prefix, putting salt values in … Read more

How to force “remember me” users to login again?

You can reset the security keys, forcing all cookies to expire and all users to log back in. Edit wp-config.php and change even one character in any of the security strings. There’s a plugin that allows you to set the expiry time on your user’s cookies. I haven’t personally used it, so proceed with caution: … Read more

Looking up WordPress account information from Host or php files

You want to create your own admin username/password. This way, you leave their logins untouched and you’ll have your own account, tied to your own email address. To do this, you’ll need to add 3 records in the database. The three entries you make are: A row in the wp_users table, which will be the … Read more

WordPress Submitted Content

Take a look at Gravity Forms, a plugin for building custom forms. It includes support for creating posts via frontend user submitted forms. It is well worth the cost. You can also use it to build any other custom forms you may need. There’s another plugin that works with Gravity Forms to apply custom post … Read more

Custom login page problem!

What i do is create a page normally in the dashboard, call it something like ‘login’, then use filters to replace the wordpress login url: /** * change http://www.google.ie to the url to your custom page, or anything you like * @return string */ function my_login_url(){ return “http://www.google.ie”; } add_filter(‘login_url’, ‘my_login_url’); make sure you include … Read more

How are all users now set to inactive?

There must be some plugin that is causing the issue, you should try disabling all the plugins and reactivating them one by one and see if you find out which plugin (or the theme?) is really causing the issue, if it doesn’t work for you there is always another way. you can create as many … Read more

Is there an application I can use to protect documents?

Hello Maxwell and welcome to WPSE 🙂 I want to believe that when you talk about: an “application” on a site about WordPress, you most likely refer to a “Plugin”. “a section of a site, separate from the WP admin” you probably mean “A page or Post in the front-end (site/blog)” “the documents themselves could … Read more

authenticate user without redirecting

As per the Plugin FAQ use, wp_loginout($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]); Sorry that’s entirely incorrect, that function prints out the login/out url which you do not need/want for the purpose of using within a filter, instead use, wp_redirect( $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] ); …to return the user to the page they were on. If that does not allow you to preserve the … Read more

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